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Ice fishing from a hot tent gives winter anglers freedom to roam

Featured, Features, Fishing, Home Page News, Minnesota, National Fishing, Nature Page & Night Sky /

I’ve been using hot tents in the backcountry for years. Call it romanticizing, but there’s something special about watching smoke roll from your chimney after a long, cold day of fishing and hunting. The inner “Jeremiah Johnson” seems to emerge from everyone I’ve ever shared this experience with, and rightfully so.
Heating a shelter with a wood stove in the great outdoors is a time-honored, battle-hardened tradition that is alive and well in places like Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and other north country destinations.

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Ice fishing for Minnesota lake trout… where patience actually pays off

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Ice fishing for lake trout can feel intimidating, even to the initiated. They can cover miles of water in a day, swim 100 feet vertically in seconds, inhabit some of the biggest, deepest lakes around, and often humble even the most reliable rod-and-reel combos.
That said, ice fishing for lakers is a pursuit that actually benefits the patient angler.

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Commentary: Fight back against legislation that threatens Minnesota’s Boundary Waters

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Legislation concerning to regional sportsmen introduced by Rep. Pete Stauber (R-Minn., 8th) passed the House of Representatives last week. H.J. 140 is a bill that seeks to undo a 20-year mining moratorium in the Rainy River Watershed, upstream from the Boundary Waters.
This move came after years of pressure from Rep. Stauber to permit a sulfide-ore copper mine proposed by Twin Metals Minnesota near the shores of Birch Lake, between Ely and Babbitt.

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Want to travel far and fish well? Tips for packing light in canoe country

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From my first Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness trip when I was in fifth grade to my latest, there have been two constants that seem to be inescapable: I will never find peace or enjoyment in washing camp dishes in the backcountry, and that none of my paddling companions will like to stay in one place for long.
As someone whose favorite part of the Boundary Waters is the incredible fishing, I now know that it is undoubtedly possible to travel hard and fish well at the same time on a canoe trip. Here’s how.

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Commentary: Why Sportsmen for the Boundary Waters opposes this mine in this place

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For a decade, Sportsmen for the Boundary Waters has worked to defend the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness for future generations of hunters, anglers, and paddlers.
The BWCA is a federally designated wilderness area that offers some of the most incredible outdoor pursuits in an ecologically and geologically unique landscape. Self-sustaining populations of lake trout, ruffed and spruce grouse lining the woods, loons wailing through the night on nearly every lake; all the best things about northern Minnesota wrapped up in 1.1 million acres of publicly accessible, pristine, protected wilderness.

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