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April 17, 2025

Video: Scouting leads to a tom on Minnesota’s spring turkey opener

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Eric Morken spent a lot of time looking for birds, talking to landowners and scouting new properties ahead of Minnesota’s turkey opener on April 16, 2025. It paid dividends with a filled tag on a shot at 15 yards about an hour into opening morning.
The importance of scouting is talked about a lot in whitetail hunting, but maybe not as much when it comes to turkeys. Turkeys often tell us where they are with their gobbles, but don’t underestimate how much understanding the woods plays a role in turkey-hunting success.

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Chippewa National Forest puts in food storage order to reduce conflicts with bears

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The Chippewa National Forest has put into place a Campground Food Storage Forest Order for all developed fee campgrounds. 
The intent of the order is to reduce the steadily increasing number of human and bear interactions within developed campgrounds. The order will be effective each year from April 1 through November 30.

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Baldwin Lake in southern Illinois adds new fish cleaning station

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A new fish cleaning station is now available at Kaskaskia River State Fish and Wildlife Area in southern Illinois, offering more convenience to anglers who fish at the park’s popular Baldwin Lake.
The station can be found in the south parking lot of the main boat ramp. It has a state-of-the-art grinder with a cutting table and mounted spray hoses, allowing for efficient cleaning and disposal.

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Want to kill a gobbler? Just like hunting whitetails, scouting ups your odds

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As a mostly casual turkey hunter, it took me years to really grab onto the concept of scouting for turkeys. After all, they gobble, so they’ll tell you where they are, right? That’s true sometimes, but much is missed with that statement. For years, I would just head out during my turkey season and hope for the best. 
During these years (which featured minimal success), I quickly came to realize that, despite turkeys having small brains, they’re pretty darn successful at surviving.

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Oak Duke: Willow fly signals start of trout fly season in New York

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The Appalachian Willow fly here on the Genesee River appeared like just another weird bug crawling up my waders as I fished knee-deep for trout.
That was 50 years ago. Back then I hoped it wouldn’t bite. I didn’t know. That was half a century ago and in New York State’s trout season, opening day began April 1st. Excitedly, with increasing anticipation, we counted down the days.

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How to properly work a jig for open water 2025

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In its most basic form, a jig consists of nothing more than a light wire hook molded into a shaped piece of lead or tungsten. The round jig is the most popular, but there are other options such as stand-up, pill-shaped, football-shaped, and jigs that have built-in weed guards.
They come in a range of sizes and colors to cover species from panfish to lake trout. Jigs likely have accounted for more fish being caught than any other technique.

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Minnesota hunting incidents up slightly in 2024, with one fatality

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Minnesota’s 2024 hunting-related injury incidents were the highest they’d been since 2013, with 14 total injuries involving firearms use while hunting, and one fatality in Clay County that happened on the firearms deer season opener. 
Since 2014, the average number of injuries is around 11, although, looking at 2013 and the decade prior, the average was around 22 incidents per year.
“Our goal every year, obviously, is to have zero fatalities, zero … incidents,” said Jen Mueller, DNR Enforcement’s southwest regional training officer.

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