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June 12, 2025

Red River’s lake sturgeon in Minnesota show signs of spawning

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The Red River’s lake sturgeon restoration effort is seeing fruits of its labor with signs of spawning taking place after decades of work.
Reports of lake sturgeon in the Red River date back to fur-trading days when settlers were still moving west across the landscape.
“Imagine being at a fur fort at the confluence of a tributary with the Red, and you’ve been paddling freight canoes all day, which is not exactly light work, but they had trouble getting to sleep because the sturgeon spawning and leaping was so loud,” said Nick Kludt, the Minnesota DNR’s Red River specialist.

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Trappers face low prices for foreseeable future amid global conflicts, uncertainty

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If you are growing tired of the doom and gloom fur market reports, please be advised that it’s not that there is no interest in fur, it’s just that the universe seems to be doing everything in its power to keep prices down.
Armed conflicts, global economic downturns, trade wars, and everything in between are hindering any advances in the fur market.

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Streams of Thought: More anglers turned away at border crossings as Canada ‘digs in its heels’ in regards to AIS prevention

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

As the wily veteran of nearly 30 international border crossings into Ontario over the past few decades, I could probably impress Canada’s border agents by asking myself the questions that more than likely they’ll ask me.
Sure, it’s been a learning experience along the way, but eventually, you get the hang of the routine, and things generally go smoothly.

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Fishing for a Cure takes cancer patients fishing on New York’s Oneida Lake

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All Cory Jenner wanted to do was go on a fishing trip with his friend. In 2021, one of Jenner’s closest friends, K. Steve Darrow, was battling ureter cancer and Jenner thought a trip doing their favorite activity would help take Darrow’s mind off treatment.
The two searched around different non-profits to see if any offered free fishing trips for people battling cancer. But the few they found were meant for people with specific types of cancer, such as breast cancer, and often were meant for larger groups of people.

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Minnesota DNR doubtful about stocking sturgeon into Lake Minnetonka

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Founder of the Westonka Walleye Program, Johnny Range, has spent the past 12 years fundraising and annually stocking 8- to 13-inch walleyes in Lake Minnetonka.
As he plans to continue doing that work, he’s eyed another species for Lake Minnetonka, too – stocking lake sturgeon?
“That’s kind a cool story that I’m working towards – trying to convince the DNR to let me bring these dinosaurs back to the lake,” Range said.

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New York’s boaters, anglers encouraged to treat launch stewards cordially

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If you are a boating enthusiast interested in making sure you don’t spread aquatic invasive species, (AIS) there is an army of willing volunteers available to help show you how.
Boat stewards are volunteers or paid members of the community who provide boaters with information about precautions that can reduce the spread of harmful AIS, but there are apparently some people who resist that effort and don’t treat the stewards kindly.

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Steve Piatt: A magical evening on New York’s Ausable River

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A heavy – well, not too heavy, because you don’t want to compete with all those insects – Green Drake hatch is probably the dream of just about every fly fisherman around late May to mid-June in New York. But to be honest, it’s pretty much a hit-and-miss thing. And we do a lot more missing than hitting.
That’s why when you get word of a Green Drake hatch – any kind, from a few to a moderate and even sporadically heavy hatch – fly-fishers tend to drop what they’re doing and head to the water, always optimistic.

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Dean Bortz: Sometimes the turkeys have to win, no?

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Oh my aching … let’s go with my back here. But another part of me got kicked right and proper – and more than once – by Zone 7, Zone 1, and Zone 4 turkeys in Wisconsin this spring when hunting under my own tags.
It was downright embarrassing. Very humbling. And I’m – what – in at least my 40th year of turkey hunting? Gee whiz. As my old buddy would have said, “Dirty Irene.” And he would always draw out the dirty, as in Diirrr-ty Irene. He gave it a melody. I never did ask him the origin of that saying, but that’s about as close as he got to cussing.

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