Conservation officers (CO) with the Minnesota Department of Natural resources recently saved a couple of deer by shooting them. State conservation officer Jeremy Woinarowicz of Thief River Falls received a call Dec. 28 that two bucks were locked together by their antlers in a field near Warren in Polk County. When Woinarowicz arrived at the …
St. Paul – In the end, the archery season wasn’t all that different from the deer season as a whole. Before the firearms season, archery hunters were about on the same pace as last year. Then the gun season opened, and the archery harvest never recovered. As of last Thursday – with two days left
District 1 – Baudette area CO Ben Huener (Roseau) reports anglers were checked on the Roseau River with small pike being caught northwest of Roseau. CO Larry Milbridge (Warroad) reports a complaint of garbage dumping in the state forest was investigated. CO Jeff Birchem (Baudette) notes that a large ice crack is still affecting a
Big Six LAKE MILLE LACS East – Ice conditions continue to be best in the bays and close to shore. A few resorts have started pulling rental houses, but they aren’t getting out as far as they’d like. Isle Bay, Cove Bay, and Wahkon Bay are all providing northern pike action with sucker minnows in the
Beneath the big stories of 2011, like the state government shutdown and debate over a Vikings stadium, some other long-term trends quietly took root. Look back through the past year of Outdoor News, and you’ll see change afoot – some good, some not-so-good.
Banquets/Fundraisers Jan. 14: St. Tim’s Wild Game Feed, 5:30 p.m., St. Timothy’s, Blaine. For more info call Daniel Otte, 763-757-1944. Jan. 21: Southern Dakota Co. Sportsman’s Club, Banquet, 5 p.m., Farmington American Legion. For more info call Rick Cotes, 612-910-2918. Jan. 21:MN Duck & Goose Callers, Banquet, 5:30 p.m., Blainebrook Entertainment Center, Blaine. For more info call
Kurt Haroldson, a pheasant researcher for the DNR in Madelia, called it a “welcome change” from last year; “from a pheasant’s perspective, it’s pretty wonderful,” he said.
SOUTHERN LP Lake St. Clair There was no safe ice last week on Lake St. Clair. A couple steelhead have been caught in the Huron River. Walleye fishing has been pretty good in the Detroit River. Anglers are jigging and hand-lining at the sand pile, sturgeon hole, and in the Trenton Channel and catching good
Lake Orion, Mich. – There was no shortage of big stories in 2011. From the U.S. Forest Service’s announcement that it would consider a ban on gun hunting and snowmobiling in parts of the Huron-Manistee National Forests to the NRC lifting the baiting ban in the Lower Peninsula, there was plenty to talk about in
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