Joe Albert Associate Editor Boats and warm weather. Fresh off days and days of , um, chilly weather, the plan is to check out the Boat Show in Minneapolis this week. That’s on the heels of Pheasant Fest last week. Which leads to one question: Is it still only January? Don’t get me wrong, winter […]
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Travel conditions on area lakes have improved dramatically. No more slush, but there are still some nasty frozen ruts in most places. Fishing has generally been fair, with panfish and northern pike providing the most action. Walleye fishing is slow. Perch have been biting on the larger lakes. Fish have been coming off weed edges
Dean Bortz Wisconsin Editor WISCONSIN JOINED THE TIMBER WOLF LAWSUIT on the afternoon of Thursday, Jan. 17. That news came over the wire just as we were wrapping up this issue. According to an internal DNR e-mail message from that day, Wisconsin’s attorney general, J.B. Van Hollen, signed onto an amicus (friend of the court)
The open and charter boats out of Shinnecock and Sheepshead Bay are targeting a mixed bag of cod, pollack, ling and sea bass on the offshore wrecks in 70 to 120 feet of water. Longer range boats running out of Sheepshead Bay, Freeport, Montauk and Shinnecock are targeting larger cod 60 to 70 miles offshore,
Big Green still had a lot of open water last week. The only ice was in the town bay and Beyer’s Cove. There was some bluegill and perch action noted in those two locations, but the action had slowed from the fast action the previous two weeks. If the wind dies down and cold temperatures
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St. Paul – If land on Lake Vermilion is to be purchased and developed into Minnesota’s newest state park, the coming months hold the key. A list of recommendations given last week to Mark Holsten, DNR commissioner, by a task force that’s been looking at the issues surrounding the potential park likely will form part
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Trout are hitting on Devils Lake, and a lot of anglers are getting their limit of three fish in a couple of hours. Most of the trout are running 12 to 17 inches. Anglers are using Swedish Pimples tipped with minnows, or just red hooks, split shot, and minnows. On Crystal Lake, anglers are catching
In Port Washington, the water in the harbor is fairly turbid. Brown trout fishing has been relatively slow, but should pick up as the water clears. In Milwaukee, the ice has broken up on the lagoon at Lakeshore State Park and in McKinley Marina, and it is not safe for foot travel. Shore anglers in
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Canton, N.Y. – A Saint Lawrence County man has been sentenced to three years in state prison after admitting to mistakenly shooting and killing a Norfolk man during a deer drive while hunting in the Brasher State Forest last October. St. Lawrence County Court Judge Jerome J. Richards on Jan. 7 sentenced Eric Gibbs, 36,
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