INTERNATIONAL FALLS, Minn. - Billy Dougherty remembers clearly his first day as a paid fishing guide on Rainy Lake. Opening day, 1965. He was working for his grandparents at the Kettle Falls Hotel on ...

A new, improved 84-foot fishing pier has been installed on Tilson Bay on Rainy Lake in northern Minnesota, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources said. The pier, installed by staff from the ...

Rainy Lake and the International Falls and Ranier area will be featured on the “Fishing the Midwest” television show this weekend. The show was taped last July and features host Bob Jensen fishing ...

ON RAINY LAKE - At the age of 89 years, 11 months and 21 days, you would have found Jim Rolando in his 18-foot Crestliner fishing for walleyes. Then again, that's where you would find him on just ...

May 16—BAUDETTE, Minn. — If the walleyes didn't cooperate on this sunny Saturday morning, the opening day of Minnesota's 2025 fishing season, it certainly wouldn't be because of the weather. Morning ...

Walleye anglers are looking forward to the Minnesota Fishing Opener on May 11, but for now, the focus is on pike and sturgeon. Back bays are becoming ice-free, and pike are staging for the spawn, Lake ...

RAINY LAKE, ONTARIO — Rainy Lake is a mood, journalist Ted Hall noted many years ago, and for a couple days this week, it was inspiring and reassuring for me and two old friends. It was a much-needed ...

I’ve thought of Rainy Lake for years without actually going there. That’s partly because I drive past it whenever I take the North Cascades Highway to eastern Washington, which I do as often as I can.

On June 1, 2022, Ranier resident Daryl Waller had to evacuate from the home he had lived in for 18 years. He and his family were among hundreds fighting off the rising water from Rainy Lake. “We were ...

Flooding on the Minnesota-Ontario border is a disaster of historic proportions — a fact perhaps not fully appreciated due to its distance from the Twin Cities and other metro areas. So historic that ...

Billy Dougherty remembers clearly his first day as a paid fishing guide on Rainy Lake. Opening day, 1965. He was working for his grandparents at the Kettle Falls Hotel on the lake. "This guy walked up ...

Rainy Lake fishing guide Billy Dougherty holds a hefty northern pike he caught on the lake. On Friday, March 23, 2018, Dougherty will be inducted into the Minnesota Fishing Hall of Fame. This summer ...