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Minnesota businesses get ready for fishing season ahead of Saturday opener Minnesota businesses get ready for fishing season ahead of Saturday opener By Holly Bernstein and Gage Cureton | May 14, 2021 at 6:31 PM CDT - Updated May 14 at 10:55 PM MADISON LAKE, Minn. (KEYC) - Saturday kicks off the walleye, bass, northern pike and lake trout fishing opener. This year’s opener is scheduled on the latest possible date of May 15. Local businesses in the area are getting ready after an increase in interest over the past year. Nathan Greene owns Corner Bait in Madison Lake. Like many busines...

Dec 11, 2020 A boy tests the ice on the pond at Lions Park. Ice on most area lakes is still considered too thin to walk on. While the unusually warm weather this week was an opportunity for people to be outside, it delayed the start of winter activities such as ice fishing. The above-freezing days are slowing the speed that ice forms on local lakes and ponds, pushing back when people can take to the ice. The cooler nights helped keep the ice already on the lakes from melting, despite temperatures rising to an unusually warm 50 degrees this week. The problem is that new ice doesn’t form d...