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November 27, 2024

Pro Fishing Tip of the Week: Gear up before winter ice arrives

The St. Paul Ice Fishing and Winter Sports Show is Dec. 6-8 at St. Paul RiverCentre. It’s the premier place to see all of the new products for the upcoming ice season. You can also catch seminars from some of the best in the business, and learn about different tactics, destinations, and products.

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Is it ever too cold to hunt your dog? The answer involves many factors

A few weeks ago, sipping black coffee at my desk around 6 a.m., an email dropped into my inbox from an address I didn’t recognize.
It was from a reader who lives in southeastern Minnesota. He asked me an intriguing question, but one I’ve scarcely ever pondered: Is it ever too cold to hunt your dog?
Hmm. A good question, I told him, and one I intended to research. The short answer is: It depends.

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Steve Carney: A well-deserved bow buck, and a great Minnesota fall walleye bite

My longtime hunting buddy, Paul Schutte, of Annandale, Minn., just celebrated his 70th birthday. He almost didn’t reach this milestone after he suffered a major stroke last fall.
Paul spent the entire year rehabilitating, including therapy while trying to regain motion and strength. It’s been a long and difficult road.
Paul has always been a bowhunting fanatic. He believes the traditional vertical bow is what bowhunting is all about.

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Minnesota Mixed Bag: St. Paul Ice Fishing Show kicks off Dec. 6

The 2024 St. Paul Ice Fishing and Winter Sports Show begins Dec. 6 and continues through Dec. 8 at St. Paul RiverCentre. Just in time for this year’s ice-fishing season, the show will feature more than 190 exhibits featuring products and services, including fish houses, rods and reels, tackle, electronics, apparel, and more.

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Streams of Thought: How can conservation – easements, etc. – compete with wind projects? Or can it?

At the successful completion of a pheasant hunt in Murray County, Minn., just a few weeks ago, I sat on the tailgate of the Chevy and admired the blaze of a sunset and its reflection on a duck slough below while listening to the cackling of cock pheasants that had returned to roost in the grasslands of a spread of CREP land (perpetual conservation easement acres).
A few yard lights glowed from distant farms, and I heard the drone of a tractor to the north.
I thought about the many pheasant hunts during the past couple of decades on that land. And before that, “picking rocks” and baling hay, back when much of the land was in ag production.

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