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Joe Shead

When a selfless stranger saved my opening day deer hunt

Featured, Features, Home Page News, Hunting, Minnesota, National Hunting /

The headlight bobbing up ahead was not a welcome sight. It was opening morning of firearms deer season, and more than once another hunter had screwed up my plans. I hoped that was not about to happen again.
Soon, I met up with the hunter.
“Good morning!” he said with way more energy than any human should have at 5 a.m.
“Good morning,” I replied.
“I hope I’m not screwing you up,” he said. “I was planning to skirt this ridge, then pop up on top. But I can go somewhere else.”

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Morel season: Minnesota’s tastiest spring tradition?

Featured, Home Page News, Minnesota, Nature Page & Night Sky /

Spring in Minnesota offers an overabundance of outdoor opportunities.
How do you choose? You could be turkey hunting, shed hunting, chasing spring panfish on newly thawed lakes, tackling giant Rainy River sturgeon, fishing Mississippi River walleyes, targeting trout… the list goes on and on. But don’t forget about wild foraging opportunities, particularly for the crown jewel of the forest: the morel mushroom.

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Spring’s ‘full-contact’ white bass fishing worth battling the crowds on Wisconsin’s Wolf, Fox rivers

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If there’s one event in Wisconsin that’s likely to draw a bigger crowd than a playoff game at Lambeau Field or opening day at American Family Field, it just might be the spring white bass run.
Thousands of anglers from all across the Midwest converge to take home their share of white bass as the populations from Lake Winnebago and the upriver lakes crowd into the Fox and Wolf rivers to spawn.

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Minnesota’s spring sturgeon fishing offers a crack at the fish of a lifetime

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Spring is a season of transition. Anglers watch winter’s ice recede and finally go out.
While many anglers wait impatiently for the spring walleye opener, others take to bulrush beds to chase crappies. But a growing contingent of anglers is flocking to certain waters in search of lake sturgeon. The state’s largest fish makes a spring spawning run that can offer great fishing.

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Five tips to put you on more shed deer antlers

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It’s been said before: Shed hunting is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Think about it: Any given buck can literally travel for miles from when deer begin dropping antlers in December until the last buck has shed in April. How are you supposed to know where a given deer was at the exact moment he shed an antler? Here are five tips to point you in the right direction.

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Examining the finer details of tip-up fishing

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Tip-ups are a low-tech – but effective – tool for catching pike and walleyes under the ice. What follows are the finer points of these simple setups.
For starters, I like to use modern tip-ups that have an underwater spool and a spindle above water. Nowadays, that’s pretty much a given, but when I started ice fishing, we had those old wooden contraptions with which you had to fold them open to put them on the ice, then bend a spring-steel flag arm around and hook it to the underwater spool.

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Decoying Perch: When a duck hunt becomes a fishing outing

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It all began on my first ice-fishing trip years ago to what would ultimately become my favorite lake in north-central Minnesota. Although we were there ostensibly for perch, my duck hunter’s switch never turns off, and the lake’s bulrush beds and numerous points had me drooling. I vowed to return in October.

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Dealing with hunting pressure is often inevitable during a gun opener; here’s how to deal with it

Featured, Features, Home Page News, Hunting, Minnesota, National Hunting /

It may take some added effort, but escaping the sea of orange (and blaze pink) during the first weekend of the firearms deer season is possible in most locations. Get there early on Nov. 8, and get to places where deer are most likely to seek refuge from those out to get them.

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