The once-reviled leech, recently lauded for its potential in preventing repeat heart attacks, could also have a role to play in the treatment of pain and inflammation. In the October Annals of the ...

LEECH LAKE — Armed with minnows, jigs and high hopes, we motored across a choppy Leech Lake at dawn Saturday, seeking walleyes and buoyed by an early spring that suggested it would be a Minnesota ...

An armed burglar in Australia has pleaded guilty to breaking into the home of an elderly woman in 2001 after being caught using evidence from a leech. The bloodsucking creature was found beside a safe ...

East — Walleyes are hitting Lindy Rigs and leeches or crankbaits on the 25- to 30-foot gravel and mud areas during the day. Slip bobbers and leeches have worked best after dark on the 14- to 20-foot ...

Walleye fishing is strong, and the fish are being caught all over the lake as they transition into midsummer mode, Lake of the Woods Tourism said in this week's fishing report. Anglers are reporting ...

Walker, Minn. - Chip Leer remembers the Minnesota walleye opener in 2002 or 2003 when he joined some of the area's top anglers to test the waters of Leech Lake. There were four boats of anglers, he ...

Bemidji area: Bass fishing has been good on area lakes and some walleyes are being caught on Lake Bemidji, according to guide (and running legend) Dick Beardsley. Anglers on Cass Lake, east of Bemidji ...

ON LEECH LAKE -- Oh, what an opener. At 7:30 a.m. Saturday, anglers waiting to launch boats at Federal Dam on Leech Lake were backed up a block deep waiting to get on the water. "I haven't seen it ...