St. Paul, Minn. (AP) – More Minnesotans are fishing today than in 2000. The problem is, those anglers are growing older. Minnesota Department of Natural Resources officials, who rely on license revenues to run the agency, have fretted for years as they’ve watched the percentage of Minnesotans who fish drop from 40 percent in the …
All eyes this week are on the Cultural and Outdoor Resources Finance Division in the Minnesota House of Representatives. It’s this committee that will roll together all aspects of dedicated funding – habitat, clean water, parks and trails, and the arts – into a single bill. Meetings have been held nearly every day this week,
Potters Mills, Pa. – Pennsylvania’s trout season is just under way, but crews from the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission have been busy “fishing” for recently stocked trout since mid-March. They stocked the trout, so they should know where to find them but, unfortunately, that is not always the case. Trout have been disappearing in
Topeka, Kan. (AP) – Anglers will be headed to Coffey County Lake to honor the memory of Kansas National Guard members killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. The fifth annual Veteran’s Memorial Bass Tournament is set for Saturday at the lake south of the Wolf Creek Nuclear Generating Station near Burlington. Sponsored by the 2nd Battalion,
St. Paul – An amendment to a bill approved last week by a House committee would remove former state Sen. Bob Lessard’s name from the council that bears it. The measure is part of a larger omnibus state government bill authored by Rep. Phyllis Kahn, DFL-Minneapolis. It prevents councils, among other things, from being named
Helena, Mont. (AP) – A dozen or so bills passed by the 2009 Montana Legislature make it easier for people to go hunting. The sport has been in decline nationally, but appears to be holding its own in Montana. For the most part, the bills broaden the licensure of hunting or lift administrative barriers. They
Recent wind and cold weather have slowed the early spring walleye fishing in the western basin. Prior to the poor weather, jig anglers were catching fish on many of the Camp Perry reefs and trollers were having success around the eastern cans of the Camp Perry range. Jig anglers are still having some limited success
Dean Bortz Wisconsin Editor Whew! If your head isn’t spinning yet, you haven’t been paying attention – at least when it comes to talking about Wisconsin deer-management issues. Too busy buying one leftover turkey tag per day while chalking box calls and winding new line onto fishing reels? I don’t blame you. I’m trying to
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