WI Daily Update: How to fish around wing dams for river walleyes
Wing dams on the river can be very productive areas
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June 19, 2026
Preparing your own ammunition deepens connection to hunting
More often than not, handloading ammunition begins as a procedure to save money and improve accuracy, but somewhere along the way, the process becomes something deeper.
Brass cases are lined up on the bench like small bits of gold, each offering the promise of a future treasure. The handloader is not merely assembling components, but the process increases an often-unexpected personal connection.
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Episode 597 – MN elk drama, federal Roadless Rule, special panfish regs, N.D. waterfowl update
Tim Lesmeister and Rob Drieslein start the show with a
Here’s how to fill up the livewell after crappies wrap up their spring spawn
With the funky spring weather we saw in the Upper Midwest this year, it wouldn’t be crazy to think you could find crappies in all stages of the spawn throughout Minnesota right now.
While they’ll start sliding into the shallows when the mercury breaches the 50-degree mark, they won’t start making nests until it’s in the low 60s. Their travel from deepwater wintering holes to the spawning shallows, and then back again, is somewhat predictable. But there’s a lot of nuance to finding slabs.
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MN Daily Update: How to fish around wing dams for river walleyes
Wing dams on the river can be very productive areas
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Tom Pink: Take it from me (and my broken leg), help and access are vital in the outdoors
Many years ago, some friends and I helped someone who had not been able to hunt because of an accident that rendered him blind.
We took him to a place where the walking was easy – a two-track path through an oak forest that held deer, grouse, snowshoe hares and many squirrels. It was the squirrels we hoped to harvest.
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Jeffrey Frischkorn: The English sparrow — a beast beyond the beauty
No one will (or should not, anyway) question that the English sparrow is a handsome little fellow, as are its 12 sub-species, particularly the males. Briefly, the male’s body is dressed with an attractive melding of brown, white, and black, plus a wonderfully done black throat.
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