Javier Serna

Florence, Ala. — Young anglers fishing in Minnesota’s Student Angler Tournament Trail have had a busy summer thus far, as the upstart high school bass-fishing league attempts to make further inroads statewide. This past weekend, two high school teams from Minnesota qualified for the final day of the 2018 High School Fishing World Finals and […]

Grand Rapids, Minn. — Meadow Kouffeld, one of two Minnesota women among the 20 semi-finalists for the online Extreme Huntress competition, advanced to the final round and will compete against three other women at a Texas hunting ranch in August. Kouffeld, of Grand Rapids, made a push on social media in the final weeks of

St. Paul — Don Pereira knew it wouldn’t be an easy job, but he still found running the state’s fisheries program rewarding. Pereira, chief of the Minnesota DNR’s Section of Fisheries for just shy of five years, said it was always his plan to do the job for about four to six years. His pending

St. Paul — With the 2018 spring turkey season inching toward its finale this week (it closed on Thursday, May 31), the harvest tally wasn’t as bad as some might have expected. Through the first five hunting periods (A-E), hunters had killed 9,938 turkeys, according to a preliminary DNR data request, which was about 93

Deer River, Minn. — It turns out an estimated 1,000 walleyes died during DNR’s Little Cut Foot Sioux Lake walleye egg take earlier this month. Problems with the egg take, which ensued after winds shifted and pushed a pocket of low-oxygenated water into the narrows where DNR crews set trap nets, were mentioned in last

Aitkin, Minn. — Tribal and state fishing has commenced even without an agreement between state and tribal fisheries managers on a safe allowable harvest quota for Lake Mille Lacs. State anglers are working with a quota of 76,450 pounds of walleye (after deductions for overages and winter harvest), based on their share of the 150,000

St. Paul — Minnesota spring turkey kill numbers appear to be down a bit, now that statewide data has become available. A data request showed that the turkey take was preliminarily at about 5,300 birds through April 30. That’s about 18 percent fewer than last year’s roughly 6,450 turkeys taken during the same time period.

Garrison, Minn. — It’s time for Minnesota DNR Fisheries crews to get back out on Lake Mille Lacs and conduct their first of two (in back-to-back years) population estimates done during a five-year cycle. If only the weather would cooperate and quickly melt away the considerable amount of ice that still covers the lake. Such

Maple Lake, Minn. — Spencer Ledwein was dangling a transducer down an ice hole, looking for crappies, when instead, a 50-inch muskie found him. That’s right, Ledwein iced a 50-inch muskie – not by hook and line, but via fishfinder transducer. Ledwein, of Annandale, happens to be a muskie angler (his personal best was 43