Vorland has spent more than 30 years as the area supervisor for Owatonna after becoming the first female area wildlife supervisor in Minnesota DNR history.
I sipped my hot tea and stared at the inexpensive sonar bracketed to the stern. One hand was on the 12-volt tiller but I wasn’t touching a rod.
My partner had his line in the water, a jig with a 2-inch bio-plastic minnow. My favorite light jigging rod was lying untouched in the boat’s corner because I wasn’t feeling it yet. Neither, I thought, were the crappies.
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In the 20 years I’ve been fishing the Kalamazoo River below Morrow Dam, I’d never seen the water as low as this year when I was on the stream recently.
My host, Scott Markham, who keeps his eye on what’s going on with the river, said it had something to do with maintaining the elevation of the upstream pond, and despite recent rains, the flow from the dam was being restricted. I hope someone is keeping an eye on that dam. A couple of years ago, when the dam was being repaired, the operators botched the job and allowed about 10 million truckloads of sediment to wash downstream. It was a horrible mess and you can still see the effects.
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Muskie action is starting to really heat up across the
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Bordered by the Iowa River to the east and U.S. Hwy. 30 to the north is one of the newest public areas in central Iowa — the 260-acre Oxbow Bottoms Wildlife Area — a floodplain grassland-wetland complex in Tama County.
Because of its high visibility, it will likely become one of the more popular places to hunt. But it’s not there yet.
“It’s so new, I haven’t been getting many calls about it,” said Steve Woodruff, wildlife biologist with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Iowa River Unit.
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