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May 23, 2024

Man searching for shed antlers shoots grizzly during encounter in Montana

National News, Nature Page & Night Sky /

A man searching for antlers shot and killed a grizzly bear on April 25 during an encounter on private land northwest of Wolf Creek.
The man was walking along a ridge covered with low trees and brush with his two dogs at his side and the wind at his back while searching for shed antlers. After seeing a fresh grizzly bear track in a snow patch, he continued along his path and a few minutes later he first saw the bear standing near the top of the ridge about 20 yards away.

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Gear & Gadgets: KastKing introduces the iReel One IFC Smart Fishing Reel

Gear & Gadgets, National Fishing /

Using Bluetooth to pair the iReel One with your smartphone or other Bluetooth devices and the KastKing App, iReel One employs highly accurate motion capture sensors in the spool assembly to provide anglers with precise casting metrics, including the number of casts made, average distance, farthest cast, retrieve speed, and more.

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Should fishing guides be licensed in Minnesota? Some say ‘yes,’ noting its potential benefit to fisheries

Featured, Fishing, Home Page News, Minnesota, National Fishing, National News, News /

Minnesota, boasting more than 10,000 lakes, hosts myriad fishing guides who provide memorable excursions, often yielding noteworthy catches.
Tom Neustrom, a fishing guide with more than 40 years of experience, is advocating for a fishing guide license in the state, a measure already adopted by several Midwestern states. Neustrom’s conversations with fellow guides reveal widespread support for this initiative, suggesting a need for action from the Minnesota DNR.
“It brings out a lot of accountability to the guiding profession,” Neustrom said.

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Steve Pollick: H2Ohio doesn’t go far enough in Lake Erie cleanup

Featured, Home Page News, Nature Page & Night Sky, Ohio, Opinion /

Every heavy rain event this spring into mid-summer in the western Lake Erie watershed is contributing to the now-annual, late-summer eruption of the infamously familiar “green goop” – toxic blue-green algae blooms – on the much-beloved big lake.
The forecast is gloomy, just given the rain events thus far. These nasty blooms will continue to expose a major smoke-and-mirrors flaw in a massive program so hailed by Ohio Gov. DeWine and the state legislature as the cure. We all know it as H2Ohio.

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Commentary: Changing technology and a new frontier in the great outdoors

Featured, Fishing, Home Page News, Hunting, Minnesota, National Fishing, National Hunting, Opinion /

Twenty years ago, I wrote a column about technology. It was inspired by a walk through an early-spring hunting and fishing expo. What I wrote then and what I’m thinking about today with forward-facing sonar and even more evolution really hasn’t changed much at all, has it?
Think back to your last trip outdoors with friends. Chances are, somebody brought along a smartphone. Another friend may have packed hand-held radios. And it wouldn’t be surprising if someone had a GPS unit mounted on the pickup dash or stored in a tackle box or backpack.

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Mike Schoonveld: Nighttime fishing requires abiding by common-sense rules and knowing your insurance policy

Featured, Fishing, Home Page News, Michigan, National Fishing, Opinion /

There’s an “old saying” coined not long after the start of the Internet era in the 1990s that is simple: “Don’t believe everything you see or read on the Internet.”
Great advice and advice that most Internet users have learned to heed. Still, it’s not all that uncommon for fake news to go viral, or old news to be found in recent posts as though it’s new news. It happened again recently when I got a note on Facebook Messenger from a friend who asked me, “Have you seen this?”

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Year-round bass fishing is on the table in Minnesota; here’s where things stand

Featured, Fishing, Home Page News, Minnesota, National Fishing, National News, News /

The idea of year-round bass fishing in Minnesota came into Eric Altena’s mind in 1998, when he started working for the Minnesota DNR. The current DNR Little Falls area fisheries supervisor said he’s hoping to see the regulation happen in the state sooner than later.
Discussion on a year-round bass season started in 1999, but there wasn’t enough data to determine if it could be done. Fast forward 25 years, and Altena and the DNR’s bass technical team believe there’s enough data to show that such a season wouldn’t hurt the bass population and would provide more opportunities for anglers.

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Framework for the 2024 deer gun season in North Dakota now set

Home Page News, Hunting, Minnesota, National Hunting, National News, News /

The framework for the 2024 deer gun season in North Dakota has been set. The Game and Fish Department has made available 50,100 licenses to hunters, down 3,300 from last year. In addition, muzzleloader licenses decreased by 66 and restricted youth antlered mule deer licenses remained the same.
Total deer licenses are determined by harvest rates, aerial surveys, depredation reports, hunter observations, input at advisory board meetings, and comments from the public, landowners and department field staff.

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