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How to read Lake Superior’s water for better fishing

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Lake Superior is a monster of a lake that fishes much differently than do inland waters. Anglers can troll for hours without catching a fish (this is known as “washing lures,” which sounds at least somewhat productive). One of the biggest factors in finding fish is finding the right temperature. If you can find the preferred temperature of trout and salmon, you’re well on your way to finding fish.
OK, so what temperature do they like?

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Wisconsin, Minnesota DNRs tag adult walleyes on St. Louis River

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The Minnesota and Wisconsin departments of natural resources worked together to tag more than 13,000 adult walleyes on the St. Louis River this spring. The river forms part of the border between the two states. The tagging study is done every five years to determine the adult walleye population on the water body.
“We try to capture as many of the spawning stock as possible,” said Paul Piszczek, fisheries biologist with the Wisconsin DNR. “We try to capture fish from 13 inches to the low 30s to capture the whole range of spawning stock.”

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Flop of a fishing trip becomes quest for Lucky ‘Stones’ from a sheephead

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I recently renewed an old childhood tradition of fishing the white bass spawning run in central Wisconsin.
Picture it: You’ve got Lake Winnebago, which is about the size of Minnesota’s Lake Mille Lacs, plus three adjoining lakes that are no slouches either. Then, all the adult white bass from these lakes cram into the Wolf River for their spawning run. Talk about concentrated fish!

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Planer boards are a worthy addition to your angling arsenal once you master the learning curve

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Trolling is a great way to cover water when walleyes are scattered over mud flats or if you’re fishing for early-season trout and salmon on Lake Superior before warm water drives them deep.
In those applications, planer boards spread out your lines, allowing you to cover a greater swath of water to find fish. Using planer boards isn’t rocket science, but if you’ve never used them before, there’s a bit of a learning curve. Jason Julien, owner of Church Tackle in Michigan, provided some tips that will benefit novice and experienced planer board users alike.

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There’s value in night-fishing beneath the moon and stars

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Andy’s noodly catfish rod bucked and plunged toward the surface of the Mississippi River, as below, a leviathan in the depths waged war on the hook and line that had it tethered. After fighting the fish for several minutes, we could tell the big flathead was begrudgingly nearing the surface.
But still, the Coleman lantern perched atop a cooler for added height and visibility hadn’t yet illuminated the beast below.

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Minnesota DNR developing updated Lake Superior fisheries plan

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A group of speakers from the Minnesota DNR, the Great Lakes Fishery Commission, U.S. Geological Survey, Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency convened April 5 in Duluth for the Lake Superior Fisheries Conference.

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Joe Shead: Buying a camper for hunting seemed like a good idea… then the work began

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I’ve always been a low-budget kind of outdoorsman. Why would I get a hotel when I can sleep in my truck?

For years, I would spend several nights of the deer-hunting season sleeping in what my friends and family began dubbing the “topper suite of the Hotel Chevrolet.” Sounds better than telling people you sleep in your truck, anyway.
But as one gets older, he might tend to get a little soft. Oh, I still sleep in the back of my truck at times, even while ice fishing. But one day I took a look at a slide-in truck camper and thought, man, it would sure be nice to have something like that.

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Search with purpose, and you can add to – or start – your shed antler collection

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It’s been said that looking for shed deer antlers is like looking for a needle in a haystack. I know people who have hunted deer for decades but who’ve never found a shed. The reason is probably twofold: One, they don’t try, and two, they don’t know where to look.
While you might occasionally stumble upon an antler without looking for it, for the most part, you have to actively search for antlers to find them. And even then, it’s not uncommon to come home empty-handed.

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Yellow bass fishery developing a legion of angling fans in southern Minnesota

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It’s not every day that a new fishery develops, but southern Minnesota anglers have been buzzing about an exploding yellow bass population in the Fairmont area in recent years.
“They showed up (in the Fairmont chain of lakes) first in 2012, caught by an ice angler,” said Nate Hodgins, assistant area DNR fisheries supervisor in the Windom office.
Hodgins said the fish likely were stocked illegally by area anglers. He said they could have come from the Iowa Great Lakes, which are relatively close by and where the species is native.

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