BABBITT — A fishing boat cruised across Bear Island Lake on July 3 to an undisclosed honey hole where Joe Kane, head of design at Vexilar, planned to test out some of the fishing sonar electronics ...

DULUTH — I’ve become a bit of an anxious person in my old age. Sitting down to watch a television show has become almost impossible. Nothing holds my interest for more than a few minutes. An entire ...

Steve Baumann, owner of Vexilar, the industry leader in ice-fishing electronics, stood on Bush Lake near his office in Bloomington. (Star Tribune/The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...

Prior Lake, Minn. - Look at all the fish down there," exclaimed Tom Zenanko, sounding like a kid who just discovered presents under the Christmas tree. "There's literally hundreds of them." The small ...

The educated fisherman, no I'm not talking about the fisherman that has a masters degree in Ichthyology, I'm talking about the dude that has all the fishing tools, knows how to use them and isn't ...

Five Miles From the Truck, With a Limit of Walleyes and a Problem; Win an Ice Fishing Derby Without Cheating; Burbot Ice ...

My ice-fishing season was sub-par. After starting quickly, with easy limits of sunfish and a few bonus crappies caught on Rochester's flood-control reservoirs, things slowed to a crawl in January and ...