Hundreds turn out for Governor's Fishing Opener on Lake Vermilion

TOWER, Minn. -- Dennis Highby eased his big Warrior fishing boat toward shore along Pine Island on Lake Vermilion and soon had hooked his first fish of the 2015 walleye fishing season.

"Pretty little," said Highby, an ardent angler and a summer resident of Lake Vermilion.

It was a plump little perch, not a walleye, and it went back to the lake. But on a cool and breezy Minnesota fishing opener, Highby was on the board.

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