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Trout fishing in lakes opens on the Saturday, May 12, fishing opener that also marks the first day of fishing for walleye, northern pike and sauger (though fishing for trout opens one hour before sunrise). Detroit Lakes area fisheries staff here stock rainbow trout in Bad Medicine Lake in northern Becker County. DNR’s Lanesboro hatchery produced these fish, some of the about 710,000 rainbow trout and brown trout produced at the hatchery each year. Learn more about improvements needed at the hatc