While Pool 4 has dozens of fish species, the Minnesota DNR keeps closest tabs on its walleyes and sauger – the ...

The northern Mississippi River typically thaws at the end of March. This year, the last ice floated downstream at the end of ...

According to the National Park Service, there are more than 120 fish species inhabiting the Mississippi River. The freshwater ...

Two people canoe under the Hale Boggs Memorial Bridge in the Mississippi River in Luling, La., July 25, 2014. (AP ...

RED WING — For tens of thousands of years, fish have been attracted to an area for better food, water or protection and fishermen have been attracted to that area for the fish. Simple, obvious ...

“The Mississippi, a mighty, mighty estuary, is not only a major tool for moving commerce back and forth, but it's also a place where people make a living, fishing on the river,” Carter said.

A Minnesota Boat Club eight-man scull plies the waters of the Mississippi River on a training row in St. Paul early Aug. 19, 2009. (John Doman / Pioneer Press) Wondering how long the Mississippi ...

An eagle-eyed St. Paul resident traipsing through nature spotted hundreds of dead fish floating Wednesday in an icy Mississippi River bay near Shepard Road and Randolph Avenue. The site was both ...