Since the late 1990s, Mille Lacs Lake has become an increasingly popular destination for anglers who want to catch trophy-sized smallmouth bass. Until now, it wasn't known how many of these fish - ...

A recently completed survey on Mille Lacs Lake shows that the lake's smallmouth bass population is about 67,000 - and those are just the ones longer than 12 inches. Since the late 1990s, the lake ...

GARRISON, Minn.-We're barely into our first drift on this breezy Saturday morning, and Scott Jensen is into a walleye. A good one, too, by the looks of it. For his two fishing partners, both ...

AITKIN, Minn. — About 8 a.m. on a recent October morning, Ward Stubbs set the hook on a powerful Mille Lacs Lake fish. For a while, it was a game of give and take. Stubbs gained a few feet of line, ...

The last 30 days at Mille Lacs Lake have been interesting, to say the least. First, Bassmaster Magazine names the lake as the top bass fishery in the entire United States, which is no small feat. Then ...

Back by popular demand is the Toyota Bassmaster Angler of the Year Championship Sept. 14-17 on Mille Lacs Lake. The 2016 tournament had fishing pro after pro raving about hauling in multiple ...

MINNEAPOLIS — While fisheries managers try to figure out how to restore the struggling walleye population on Mille Lacs Lake, they're encouraging anglers to consider what had been unthinkable for many ...

ISLE, Minn. - Mike Verdeja whips his Shadow Rap crankbait to the edge of a submerged rock pile on Mille Lacs Lake. Another smallmouth bass slams it. “Little guy,” says Verdeja, a Mille Lacs fishing ...

Mille Lacs has been losing its identity as a leading walleye lake in the Upper Midwest, but it keeps gaining attention for great bass fishing. The big pond in central Minnesota today was named the ...

Since the late 1990s, Mille Lacs Lake has become an increasingly popular destination for anglers who want to catch trophy-sized smallmouth bass. Until now, it wasn’t known how many of these fish – ...

MILLE LACS LAKE — As the debate over how to manage the walleye of Mille Lacs has dragged on, the lake’s reputation as a destination for smallmouth bass fishing has continued to rise. The Minnesota ...