March 26, 2025

Steve Carney: Some tips for fishing the Missouri River in spring

Featured, Features, Fishing, Home Page News, Minnesota, National Fishing / Steve Carney

I just returned from my first spring trip of the year to the Missouri River in central South Dakota. The results were good. As I have written about for years, it’s all about having the right weather to increase your odds of catching fish.
Here are some tips that have brought me success for decades on this wonderful river. I’m looking forward to a great April on the water.

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Episode 68 — Spring trout and turkeys

From The Pages of NY ODN / Dan Ladd

With trout fishing and turkey hunting seasons on the horizon,

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Northeast Minnesota’s Dumbbell Lake is muskie-, walleye-strong

Lake Profile, Lake Profile, Minnesota / Glen Schmitt

But there’s a unique fishery located just east of Isabella that’s different from others in this area. Dumbbell Lake is just 406 acres in size, it’s tucked away in the scenic Superior National Forest, and it carries good numbers of walleyes, smallmouth bass, and, yes, muskies.

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Minnesota’s Outdoor Calendar

Calendar, Minnesota / Staff Report

A look at upcoming outdoors-related events from across Minnesota published in the March 28, 2025, edition of Outdoor News.

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Minnesota Cuffs & Collars: Pilot helps locate illegal use of ATVs on state property

Cuffs & Collars, Minnesota / Staff Report

Minnesota cuffs and collars are field reports from DNR conservation officers. These reports are from the March 28, 2025, edition of Outdoor News.

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Iowa’s pheasant season has evolved over decades

Featured, Hunting, Iowa, News / DNR Report

Iowa’s current 70-plus day long pheasant season, opening on the last Saturday in October through Jan. 10 each year, is a long way from how it began. In the early years, from 1926-41, the season varied in length from 2-7 days, and pre-1933, it was only opened in counties where 150 landowners signed a petition to hold a season.
Shooting hours bounced around, too, from opening at noon until WW2 to avoid conflicts with morning farm work, to opening at 9 a.m., and then back to noon, then sunrise to sunset (for one year) before settling on 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., in 1966.

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Minnesota Mixed Bag: DNR issues rulemaking notice for Lake Superior, tributaries regs

Fishing, Hunting, Minnesota, Nature Page & Night Sky, News / Staff and News Reports

The goals of this rule proposal are simplification and standardization of trout seasons start and end dates above and below boundaries; to remove the restriction that of the five salmon allowed to be kept only one is an Atlantic salmon; to clarify…

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Outdoor Insights: New perch bag limits on Minnesota’s Mille Lacs serve as a forward-facing sonar wake-up call

5 Comments / Discussions, Featured, Fishing, Home Page News, Minnesota, Opinion / Rob Drieslein

Two weeks ago, Minnesota DNR Fisheries restricted the bag limit for yellow perch on Lake Mille Lacs.
The fantastic jumbo bite there this winter produced big grins and piles of fillets for anglers, plus positive news for the Mille Lacs region. Coupled with the upcoming two-walleye bag beginning May 10, the year has kicked off well for the big lake. The perch limit slashing from 20 to five presents a case study that could’ve happened anywhere. I think we just witnessed the first major Minnesota DNR reaction to the huge effects of forward-facing sonar.

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Minnesota Letters to the Editor: A poor decision on yellow bass

Minnesota, Opinion / Minnesota Letters To The Editor

Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the March 28, 2025, edition of Minnesota Outdoor News.

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Iowa’s pheasant season has evolved over decades

Minnesota Mixed Bag: DNR issues rulemaking notice for Lake Superior, tributaries regs

Outdoor Insights: New perch bag limits on Minnesota’s Mille Lacs serve as a forward-facing sonar wake-up call

Minnesota Letters to the Editor: A poor decision on yellow bass

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