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Entertainment briefs - Dec. 13

...Holland's Resort on Little Mantrap Lake on the south edge of Itasca State Park. He later worked at Blewett's Resort on Island Lake and at Fuller's Tackle Shop in Park Rapids.Holland's fascination with Minnesota's lakes region led him to...

http://brainerddispatch.com/entertainment/2012-12-12/entertainment-briefs-dec-13
Entertainment
Rain, rain and now flooding

...for five minutes. Pea-sized hail was reported Monday in Aitkin County and 1.75-inch hail was reported on Farm Island Lake in Aitkin County. One-inch hail was reported one mile southeast of Aitkin; .88 inch hail in Deerwood; 1-inch...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2012-05-28/rain-rain-and-now-flooding
News | Weather
Brainerd breaks record high rainfall in May

...Engineers.One-inch hail was reported in Ironton and Aitkin during Monday's thunderstorms. A trained spotter by Farm Island Lake near Aitkin reported , with 1.75 inch hail. Two-inch inch hail was reported by Milaca on Monday afternoon. JENNIFER...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2012-05-29/brainerd-breaks-record-high-rainfall
News | Weather
Sept 23 Outdoor notes

...route to an eighth-place finish in the Minnesota Bass Federation Nation Tournament of Champions, Sept. 6-7 on Island Lake north of Duluth.Steinbauer totaled 20.31 pounds in the two-day event. Dennis Lothspeich, also of Brainerd...

http://brainerddispatch.com/outdoors/2012-09-21/sept-23-outdoor-notes
Outdoors
4 duck hunters plucked from frigid waters near Bemidji

...Sheriff's officials say a boat carrying the four, ages 18 and 19, capsized about 200 yards from shore on Three Island Lake near Woodhaven Resort last evening. The resort owner and another man launched a boat to help the men and were soon...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2012-10-23/4-duck-hunters-plucked-frigid-waters
News | Outdoors
Otter bites Minnesota triathlete 25 times

...otter in a northern Minnesota lake. Leah Prudhomme, 33, of Anoka, was doing a regular 1.5-mile training swim in Island Lake, 17 miles north of Duluth, on Wednesday evening. As she passed by a bog on the last stretch, she felt something...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2012-07-15/otter-bites-minnesota-triathlete-25-
News
July 22 state fishing report

...periods in 16 to 20 feet on Farm Island Lake and Rabbit Lake. Crappies are...caught along the deep weed edges of Island Lake and Upper Dean Lake. Largemouth...Koronis, Rice Lake, and Cedar Island Lake. Nightcrawlers are producing walleyes...

http://brainerddispatch.com/outdoors/2012-07-20/july-22-state-fishing-report
Outdoors
Area fishing report - Aug. 12

...and minnows. Muskie action has been best in the cabbage of Portage Bay and the rocks around Pelican and Submarine islands.? LAKE WINNIBIGOSHISHPerch are hitting minnows on the 12- to 14-foot rocks in the Fence area and northwest corner of the...

http://brainerddispatch.com/outdoors/2012-08-10/area-fishing-report-aug-12
Outdoors
Lake of the Week: Farm Island Lake

When Mille Lacs is rockin', seek the island, Farm Island! No doubt about the prolificness of Mille Lacs as a walleye fishery. However, just to the north of Garrison, just off of County Road 11, sits this under utilized gem.

http://brainerddispatch.com/outdoors/2012-08-10/lake-week-farm-island-lake
Outdoors
This Was Brainerd - Oct. 31

...machines of $75. He was seen boarding a bus to Minneapolis.100 years ago (1912)In a recent hunting trip at Farm Island Lake, Julius Hage and Carl Carlsen tried their new pump guns. A number of ducks quacked overhead while Hage and Carlsen...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/2012-10-30/was-brainerd-%E2%80%94-oct-31
Opinion

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