Season closes on a positive note By Joe Albert Staff Writer Shakopee, Minn. — Devout duck hunter John Schroers is still giddy about the last two weeks of the waterfowl season. “I’m trying to get over mallard mania,” Schroers said last Wednesday, a day after the duck season closed. “If you take into consideration the …
By Todd Richmond Associated Press Madison, Wis. (AP) – Hunters could still carry as many shells as they want, campers could still drink, and boaters could race along more stretches under scaled-back conservation plans for the upper Mississippi River federal wildlife officials released Saturday. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s new plan represents the latest
By Bob Frye Capital Correspondent Harrisburg — Pennsylvania Game Commission officials have asked deer hunters to adapt to a lot of changes over the last few years. Now, some deer hunters – and some landowners, municipal officials, bird watchers, and others – want the Game Commission to adapt to them. The groups behind the Ecosystem
Hunting season has made pressure light on waterways and lakes statewide. Anglers are reminded to wear blaze orange when fishing streams and other waters in state game lands or anywhere hunters may be out. Many lakes are now below normal pool, having been drawn down for the winter. While that makes for more limited boat
By Joe Albert Staff Writer Washington — The price of the federal Duck Stamp would rise from $15 to $35 by 2015 as part of a bill introduced last week by Rep. Mark Kennedy, R-Minn., called the Wetlands Loan Act. In return for the price hike, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service would receive a
BIG SIX LAKE MILLE LACS East – The entire lake is capped over and you’ll find as much as seven inches of ice in the bays. There’s been some decent perch action reported in Cove Bay and Isle Bay over nine feet of water. Small jigs tipped with minnows are producing good-sized fish. Look for
By Tim Spielman Associate Editor St. Paul, Minn. — While government officials emphasize a deadly flu virus that can be carried by several species of feathered creatures – including migratory ducks – isn’t an imminent threat to humans, they say they’re closely monitoring those species that can range from Alaska, all the way to the
By Glen Schmitt Staff Writer Baudette, Minn. – After several nights of below-zero temperatures, the ice fishing season is off and running in most areas. Ice that was barely thick enough to walk on a week ago is now in good enough shape for some ATV travel. From St. Cloud to points north, permanent shelters
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