WALKER- The annual International Eelpout Festival is scheduled Feb. 21-24 on Leech Lake in front of Chase on the Lake in Walker. "The festival is known for providing a mid-winter respite for the ...

Last weekend I happened to be going through Walker and realized it was the weekend of the Eelpout Festival. This year marked 33 years of all things eelpout, and Walker was ready to celebrate.

WALKER, Minnesota — The legendary International Eelpout Festival has been canceled in Walker, Minnesota this year. The festival organizers posted the announcement on their website, saying that ...

Entering into its 38th year, the annual International Eelpout Festival attracts more than 12,000 participants and visitors to Walker, Minn. (pop. 1,069) for three days every February. This year's ...

What's an eelpout and what's with that name? What do they eat and what eats them? They're in decline? They taste good? It fights hard, tastes great and readily hits lures and live minnows in the ...

WALKER-The 39th annual International Eelpout Festival is scheduled Feb. 22-25 on Leech Lake in Walker. "At the center of the Eelpout Festival is the long-held tradition of angling the world's only ...

In 1979, Don and Debbie Overcash, owners of Walker Drug, and Ken Bresley of the Tackle Box bait shop came up with the idea of an International Eelpout Festival to encourage winter tourism in ...

To many, the fat, slimy eelpout is one of the ugliest fish swimming in Minnesota's waters. But to Brent Getzler, the one he caught is a beauty because it is likely to put him in the record books ...

WALKER, Minn. — Eelpout Festival organizers believe there will be no vehicle restrictions during this year’s festival. Thanks to recent cooler temperatures, festival attendees will likely be ...

This time, it involves eelpout curling. Come again? This was from the "Chase The Pout Games" over the weekend in Walker, Minn., in conjunction with the 31st Eelpout Festival. A PR man named ...

New research exploring the effects of rising temperatures on a bottom-feeding fish in the North Sea -- the eelpout -- shows what global warming can do. "Yep, that's the eelpout," says Rainer Knust ...

One resident of the Scar is a newly identified species of small, purplish fish called an eelpout, described for the first time on January 19 in Zootaxa. This fish is the first vertebrate species ...