Campfire stuff. Not a bite chart in a trench coat.
2026-10-01 · Gull Lake Chain / Bar Harbor / Nisswa / Brainerd Lakes
The Fishing to End Hunger tournament on the Gull Lake Chain turns a weekend of walleyes into meals for Brainerd Lakes families, with a $20,000 match supporting The Outreach Program of Brainerd Lakes.
2026-09-28 · West Lake Jefferson near Madison Lake (Le Sueur County)
West Lake Jefferson near Madison Lake has a longer, wheelchair-ready fishing pier reached through a County Road 105 culvert, rebuilt with support from Le Sueur County, the Minnesota DNR, and the German-Jefferson Sportsmen’s Club.
2026-09-25 · Hackensack / Birch Lake (Cass County) — city fishing pier
For 29 summers, Hackensack’s Tuesday kids contest has turned the city pier on Birch Lake into a free hot-dog-and-minnow-race classroom — started by a mayor’s dad and his buddies at the Legion, still run by volunteers, still catching and releasing tens of thousands of fish.
2026-09-24 · Detroit Lakes / Big Floyd Lake (Becker County) — Oakland Beach & Floyd Point
After an EF-2 tornado ripped the west side of Floyd Lake on July 6, 2026, Pelican River Watershed District staff and volunteers kept diving Thursdays into fall — pulling shingles, glass, boat windshields, and dock scrap from the swim zone so the fishery and the shoreline folks can get their quiet lake back.
2026-09-23 · Lake Bronson / Kittson County — Lake Bronson State Park
After Lake Bronson was drawn down in 2024 for a full dam rebuild — piers yanked, fishing shut — new ADA and dam-side fishing piers are staged on the beach while the lake slowly refills. Usable fishing is still aimed at 2027, with aggressive restocking planned once the water is open again.
2026-09-22 · Cook / Lake Vermilion (St. Louis County) — Whispering Winds Resort
In early July 2026, Hometown Hero Outdoors ran its fourth Muskie Madness at Whispering Winds on Lake Vermilion — the first without guide Jeremy Johnson — bringing 15 veterans and first responders onto the water with volunteer guides who showed up anyway.
2026-09-17 · Backus / Rocky Dock / Pine Mountain Lake (Cass County)
Backus is pursuing Get Out MORE funding for an accessible aluminum fishing pier at Rocky Dock on Pine Mountain Lake, where shore anglers now fish from broken concrete.
2026-09-15 · Green Lake / Calhoun Lake (Spicer / Kandiyohi County)
Some Minnesota fishing stories are about the fish. This one’s about a bridge that finally admitted it was tired — and a shore cast that’s about to get a safer place to land.
2026-09-09 · Leech Lake / Walker (Cass County) + Duluth East
Some Minnesota fishing stories start with a walleye whisper. This one starts with a kid who used to live on a couch controller — and somehow ends up on Leech Lake with the state’s best high school bass boats.
2026-08-28 · Brainerd Lakes (Sibley Lake / Pequot Lakes / Crow Wing County)
Some lake news is about monster walleyes. This one’s about a pier that finally got the glow-up it deserved — and a grandma, a kid, and a dog who showed up to test-drive it.
2026-07-04 · Crosslake / Whitefish Chain (Crow Wing County)
Some Minnesota fishing stories start with a jig. This one starts with sneakers — and ends with money for fish habitat on the Whitefish Chain.
2026-01-31 · Brainerd Lakes (Gull Lake / Hole-in-the-Day Bay / Crow Wing County)
There’s a particular kind of Minnesota genius that says: What if we took a county fair, froze the parking lot, and called it fishing?