Minnesota’s popular stream trout season opens Saturday, April 12, with quality fishing opportunities in every region of the state. Brook trout and splake fishing also open April 12 on Lake Superior and its tributary streams.
Minnesota Mixed Bag: Stream trout fishing opens Saturday Read More »
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the April 11, 2025, edition of Minnesota Outdoor News.
Back in 1997, Outdoor News columnist Shawn Perich wrote a piece about efforts by the Grand Portage Band to restore brook trout to Lake Superior tributaries. The piece included a photo of Rick Novitsky, the band’s then-natural resources director, holding a plastic bag containing “Brooks,” one of 26 young brook trout the band recently had discovered in a North Shore tributary stream.
I remembered that story last week after reading reports that the Minnesota DNR discovered big, spawning “coaster” brook trout in the shallows of the great lake last October.
Today onX, a pioneer in digital outdoor navigation, introduced its newest app: onX Fish Midwest, marking a significant expansion into the fishing industry.
Over the last 12 months, onX has developed the onX Fish app, gathering feedback from thousands of users, and creating features to solve their unique challenges. Today, the app is tailored to meet angler needs in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan, as the company plans to continue expanding across the Midwest this year.
onX officially introduces onX Fish to its suite of outdoor adventure apps Read More »
A Minnesota DNR proposal that would increase late-season duck-hunting opportunities in the state’s south zone this fall is pending approval by the DNR commissioner’s office.
Under the proposal, the 2025 60-day duck season in the south zone would run from Sept. 27 through Oct. 5, close for 12 days, and then continue from Oct. 18 through Dec. 7. Adding season days into early December would allow waterfowlers in the south zone to target late-migrating ducks, particularly mallards, state officials say.
Proposal would alter south zone duck season in Minnesota Read More »
Leading up to the omnibus package deadline of Friday, April 11, the Minnesota House Environment and Natural Resource Finance and Policy Committee had heard many bills to potentially include.
During the past two weeks, bills regarding a continuous bass season, a DFL-backed Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund bill and new community grants carve-out, eliminating the shotgun zone, and special permitting for industry water use were heard and laid over.
Continuous bass season, shotgun zone on the table as deadline nears in Minnesota Read More »
One of the oldest wild whitetails on record for Michigan, as well as anywhere else in North America, died on March 12, 2025. She was almost 20 years old. To be exact, she was 19 years and 10 months old, according to rural Ingham County resident Bryan Hearit.
The old doe spent most of her life on 30 acres Hearit and his wife own, with their home in the middle of the property.
Michigan wild doe dies at nearly 20 years old Read More »
Waterloo High School students who built wood duck boxes during a construction class were led by volunteers from Delta Waterfowl on an outdoor adventure to install the boxes in Randolph County. The students were given insight into the role the boxes play in waterfowl conservation.
Illinois high school students take action for wood ducks Read More »
The Minnesota DNR is seeking public comment on some new
MN Daily Update: Comment on proposed fisheries rules on Lake Superior Read More »
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