Fishing for walleye, eating walleye — it’s secular communion. It affirms your identity as a Minnesotan,” Karal Ann Marling, ...

The bigger the walleye, the bigger the cheek, but I usually don’t fillet walleyes over about 20 inches. To remove the cheeks from a walleye, cut in a circular area between the eyes and the gills.

The research team looked at population data from 194 lakes across Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan, and found that the freshwater fish is becoming out of sync with lake ice-off, the usual cue ...