BISMARCK — North Dakota Game and Fish fisheries biologists this week preview the upcoming open-water fishing season for four regions of the state.

You often hear veteran anglers and biologists refer to the current status of North Dakota’s fisheries as “the good old days.” Of course, that’s a general reference and each individual water is unique.

I’ve been around long enough to remember when North Dakota didn’t have a year-round fishing season. The last time the state actually had an opening day was more than three decades ago. So, if you fish ...

Riverdale, North Dakota angler Lonnie Liebel has been fishing the Missouri River area below massive 307,000-acre Sakakawea Lake for 50 years. The 71-year-old veteran angler was fishing for walleyes in ...

BISMARCK, ND (KXNET) — In this weekend’s North Dakota Outdoors, Mike Anderson takes us to Lake Sakakawea, where fisheries crews and the Garrison Dam National Fish Hatchery are spawning salmon. Every ...

Lake Sakakawea, with its majestic bluffs and rugged shorelines, is his home water. Despite the distance from Grand Forks, Laumb says he tries to make it west to Sakakawea twice a year. On this trip, ...

The first time I felt safe enough to check the ice thickness was Thanksgiving weekend. It wasn’t safe yet at 1.5 inches. A week later and it still wasn’t. In early December we had 50-plus degree ...

BISMARCK — Tyler Schlosser is using a weekend fishing tournament on Lake Sakakawea to remember a childhood friend who died from cancer and also raise money for research into the disease that killed ...

Lake Sakakawea's "big two" walleye tournaments are coming up the next two weekends. And, for the first time in a number of years, both have filled. The 38th North Dakota Governor’s Walleye Cup ...