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 ...

Boy this weather has made the lakes ... well, ugly would describe them well. And while many anglers have given up and are looking forward to open water some local "pout chasers" are still catching ...

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 ...

CASS LAKE, Minn.--The fish took off on a line-peeling run, and all Brian Jones could do was hang on and enjoy the ride. Welcome to the world of eelpout fishing. "Whoa, he didn't like that," Jones said ...

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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, ...

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 ...

In 1979, Don and Debbie Overcash, owners of Walker Drug, and Ken Bresley of the Tackle Box bait shop came up with the idea of an International Eelpout Festival to encourage winter tourism in Walker, ...

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It's all but official: Lake of the Woods is about to break its old record for the biggest eelpout ever officially weighed in Minnesota. Brent Getzler, of Roosevelt, Minn., caught the big 'pout, which ...

PBS special made Walker's International Eelpout Festival an attractive catch The International Eelpout Festival, Feb. 21-24, 2019, in Walker, Mn., got a boost this month from good-humored Chef Lidia ...