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 many ...

Thousands of Minnesota anglers will be pouting over the news that their favorite wintertime fishing get-together is off. Organizers of the International Eelpout Festival announced Thursday that they ...

WALKER, Minnesota — More than 12,000 participants and visitors descend on Walker, Minnesota (pop. 1,069) for four days every February for The Annual International Eelpout Festival. The festival, ...

WALKER, Minn. — In what would have been the 41st year of celebrating the notoriously ugly fish, the International Eelpout Festival has bid an unexpected adieu to upcoming plans for a 2020 bash in ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Event organizers for the International Eelpout Festival in Walker announced Thursday that it won't take place in 2020. The large gathering in the month of February to celebrate ...

WALKER — Surprised by the sudden, unexpected cancellation of a major winter tourism draw, businesses and officials in Walker are scrambling to come up with an alternative to the International Eelpout ...

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 they ...

WALKER, Minn. - It's the fishing festival where almost nobody dips a line. But the beer flows, the decked-out rigs roll, and it's de rigueur to see a mini-bar being towed by a four-wheeler sliding by ...

Surprised by the sudden, unexpected cancellation of a major winter tourism draw, businesses and officials in Walker, Minn., are scrambling to come up with an alternative to the International Eelpout ...

WALKER, Minn. — Only days after the International Eelpout Festival’s unexpected cancellation earlier this month, Chase on the Lake Resort announced an alternative replacement with plans to host Walker ...

WALKER, Minn. — In what would have been the 41st year of celebrating the notoriously ugly fish, the International Eelpout Festival has bid an unexpected adieu to upcoming plans for a 2020 bash in ...