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November 23, 2025

Here’s how to pursue underrated ‘salmonids’ through the ice

There’s a neighbor at our cabin whose family has fished the lake decades longer than I’ve been alive.
This is Lake Carlos in the Alexandria, Minn., area and growing up, I used to be fascinated by their stories of walleyes patrolling bulrush beds after dark, the big northern pike that would hit on sharp drop-offs in the late fall and the smallmouth bass that congregated on a couple of deep humps (smallies have since become much more common). But nothing piqued my interest more than seeing their grainy photos of tullibees, those slender, silver- to white-colored fish that live in deep, cold lakes.

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Must-have reads for the outdoors enthusiast: Here’s Dan Small’s 2025 book review

Many of us lead busy lives that leave little time for reading, and what reading we do happens on our phones. But I’m happy to report that books are still alive and kicking in the outdoors arena.
Here’s a look at some that crossed my desk this year.

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