ON LAKE VERMILION - Doggone if Jim Charles wasn’t latched onto another walleye. At 93, he hasn’t lost the touch. He played the modest walleye to the boat, where his friend and Lake Vermilion fishing ...

The pandemic push of more people fishing on northern Minnesota lakes, especially with Canadian lakes still off-limits, has spurred the Vermilion Lake Association to ask anglers to keep fewer fish this ...

Corey Kitzmann of Davenport, Iowa, now holds Minnesota’s state record for a catch-and-release muskellunge: a 57¼-inch monster caught on Lake Vermilion earlier this month. Corey Kitzmann of Davenport, ...

TOWER, Minn. - Jim Charles of Tower served with the Navy in the Atlantic during World War II, patrolling for enemy submarines. Bob Skare, who lives on Lake Vermilion, worked in counterintelligence for ...

Libbie Shaffer asked the question many anglers think but few are willing to blurt out. “Why is it taking so long?” Libbie, 11, asked of her guide, Lonnie Johnson. Libbie had been fishing with a ...

TOWER, Minn. — The pandemic push of more people fishing on northern Minnesota lakes, especially with Canadian lakes still off-limits, has spurred the Vermilion Lake Association to ask anglers to keep ...

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Parks and Trails Division will hold an open house to provide updates on development plans for Lake Vermilion-Soudan Underground Mine State Park. The open ...

Eight years into the development of Minnesota's "next generation'' state park, officials last week christened the main campground on Lake Vermilion and announced plans for continued expansion. Next in ...