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April 22, 2023

Northeast Minnesota brook trout: Water high, fast early, but area offers great opportunity

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The trout-fishing season kicked off April 15 for inland streams in Minnesota. With snow and ice melting in the northeast, there’s anticipation of high water and tough fishing conditions currently, but the North Shore offers a destination to catch quality trout. In addition to steelhead opportunities, the region contains ample brook trout and often has lesser fishing pressure compared to some parts of southeastern Minnesota.

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Pennsylvania Game Commission boosts doe tags by 147,000 for 2023-24

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Pennsylvania game commissioners, at their quarterly meeting here April 15, voted to increase the number of antlerless deer licenses available to hunters this year by 147,000.
Commissioners announced that 1,095,000 antlerless deer licenses will be allocated statewide for 2023-24, which is up more than 15% from the 948,000 licenses allocated for 2022-23.

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The ultimate trout adventure: Backwoods brookies

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I got into backwoods trout fishing after reading an article in a national outdoors magazine about a couple of state biologists who hiked into a remote pond in what is now the Siamese Ponds Wilderness Area. The author told of map-and-compass bushwhacking adventures and encounters with beavers, bears and large brook trout.
One of the story’s photos showed a trout too big to fit in a large frying pan. That was challenge enough for me.

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Reader Story: Memories of smelt hunting in Wisconsin’s Frog Bay

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Every April it was the same thing. “You should come on up with us smelt hunting,” the guys would say. “It’s a good time.”
“I’ll think about,” I said those first couple of years when I got a teaching job in Prentice. I always had things to do and didn’t have a lot of time. Finally, in 2002, I joined the smelting crew, as we called it, and headed up Hwy. 13 to Frog Bay near Bayfield to partake in the yearly tradition known as “smelting.”
After that first year, I was hooked, or netted, I suppose.

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Michigan DNR budget laid out for Natural Resources Commission

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Restricted funds (license sales, park fees, etc.) account for $363.8 million (67%) of the DNR’s budget. Federal funding, including Pittman-Robertson and Dingell-Johnson money, accounts for $100.4 million (19%), $67.9 million (13%) came from the state’s general fund (a 38% increase), and $7.3 million (1%) came from private funding.

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