BIG SIX LAKE MILLE LACS East – Mid-day hours are best spent on the mud flats or north end sand breaks. Live bait rigs tipped with leeches or nightcrawlers are producing fish in 18 to 20 feet on the sand and in 30 to 35 feet on the mud. Slip bobbers and leeches on the […]
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By Dean Bortz Editor Madison — “Fish guys” are supervising fish guys – and gals – once again in the DNR. The former DNR Bureau of Fisheries Management and Habitat Protection was created during the 1995-96 DNR reorganization. Recently that bureau was split, and sportsmen once again have a Bureau of Fisheries Management. The DNR
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By Tim Spielman Associate Editor Washington — Conservationists this week encouraged members of the U.S. Senate to consider full funding of the Wetlands Reserve Program following House action that could mean a 25-percent decrease in new enrollments this year. Dave Nomsen, vice president of governmental affairs for Pheasants Forever and co-chair of the Theodore Roosevelt
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By Tim Eisele Correspondent Elkhart Lake, Wis. — The state Natural Resources Board adopted changes to hunting and fishing regulations that will go into effect in 2007, if they pass legislative review later this year. Meeting in Elkhart Lake on May 24, the board adopted changes proposed by the DNR following approval of the questions
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DNR Reports St. Paul — The Minnesota DNR believes its proposed new regulations could improve muskie fishing in the state. The regulations would raise the minimum size muskie that anglers could keep from 40 to 48 inches on 46 select lakes and several rivers. Signs will be posted this spring at each of the waters
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By Joe Albert Staff Writer St. Paul — Change is afoot for the way conservation projects in the state are funded. In one of their final orders of business, lawmakers passed legislation to retool and rename the Legislative Commission on Minnesota Resources. “I think it’s history-making,” said Dave Zentner, who co-chaired the task force charged
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By Dean Bortz Editor Madison — It will be a couple of weeks before hunters know whether or not they contributed to yet another record turkey kill, but if a new benchmark is not set, hunters can point to difficult weather conditions and a lack of 2-year-old birds. Early reports from several registration stations indicate
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By Don Lehman Contributing Writer Albany – Poachers and others who violate state game laws face hunting and fishing bans in 21 other states under an agreement New York has entered into that officials hope will end the practice of “state shopping” by wayward hunters and anglers. Under the agreement, known as the Interstate Wildlife
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By Steve Piatt Editor Albany – New York’s Senate has passed legislation that would authorize a special extended deer season that could run through Jan. 31 to control whitetail numbers in agricultural areas. A spokesman for the sponsor of the bill, Sen. William Larkin, Jr. (R-C, Cornwall-on-Hudson), said the bill – S443, approved by a
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