Some call it the ish fish. For decades winter anglers who accidentally hooked eelpout discarded them on the ice or even cut their lines rather than handle the slimy, snakelike fish, known to wrap ...

It’s not necessarily the fishing or even the chance of winning cash and prizes that brought thousands of anglers out to Gull Lake’s Hole-in-the-Day Bay for the Brainerd Jaycees $150,000 Ice Fishing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jon Kroll of Ashland, Wis., displays a 14-pound Lake Superior eelpout. This fish is longer than the existing state record, but ...

WALKER, Minn. (WCCO)-- New Orleans has Mardi Gras, Munich has Oktoberfest and northern Minnesota has The Eelpout Festival. It's an all-out party on ice, Feb. 16-19, featuring games, booze and fish on ...

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Add Us On GoogleAdd as a preferred source on Google LAPORTE COUNTY, Ind. (WNDU) - A state record that once stood the test of time for 32 years has now been broken twice in two weeks! On Tuesday, Jan.

WALKER, Minn.-"Who loves America?" an announcer yelled to a growing crowd that had gathered around a rectangular hole in the ice on Leech Lake. The crowd "woo"-ed in agreement and, minutes later, ...

Titled “Mink Sink, Swim on Burbot Catch,” the 1954 article featured commercial fishermen who were netting the “voracious predatory monsters” through the ice on Lake of the Woods for use as mink food.

GRAND FORKS, N.D.—The eelpout or burbot, that beady-eyed freshwater cod widely known as the “ish of fish” for its unsightly appearance, doesn’t get a lot of attention, but fisheries managers in ...

The eelpout or burbot, that beady-eyed freshwater cod widely known as the “ish of fish” for its unsightly appearance, doesn’t get a lot of attention, but fisheries managers in Minnesota and North ...