The historic Chase on the Lake resort on the shores of Leech Lake in Walker, Minn., has reinvented itself a few times in its 101-year-history. Built in 1922 by Bert and Louisa Chase, the Chase Hotel ...
Once a popular destination for opening-day walleye anglers, Leech Lake on Saturday will be strangely quiet, its resorts half filled, launch boats docked and guides booked elsewhere. Walleye fishing on ...
With perfect beach weather over a long holiday week, Israel Moe still is scrambling to keep up with the traffic at Chase on the Lake, the landmark Leech Lake resort he bought May 31 for $5.7 million.
WALKER, Minn. — Minnesota's third-largest lake has a namesake only an angler could love: the leech. Earthworm's ugly aquatic cousin. Those slimy, crawly creatures straight out of a horror film. But ...
Seventy years ago this month, Leech Lake muskies went crazy. Until that time, the big silvery fish barely gained notice from most of the lake’s anglers. Instead, walleyes were the lake’s major ...