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Minnesota tribal member hunts to help his band’s elders

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Mike Kornezos believes that helping others is the right thing to do, and this fall the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa member is doing his best to make life easier for his fellow Native American elders.

“When I was a kid, my grandma used to tell us that we must make sure we always take care of the elders. When we hunted rabbits, ducks, deer, or other animals, we must always give some to the elders who can’t hunt themselves,” Kornezos said.

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Longtime Minnesota conservation officer details the ‘tricks’ of violators

Featured, Fishing, Home Page News, Hunting, Minnesota, National Hunting / Pat Miller

During his 18 years of protecting Beltrami County fish and wildlife in his position as a Minnesota DNR conservation officer in the Blackduck and Bemidji areas, Brice Vollbrecht has learned a great deal about people’s habits and “get-away-with-it” strategies.
Hunters stationed in duck blinds, Vollbrecht says, can be reluctant to tell a CO the truth, partly because there are many places to stash illegal birds and also because they might believe no one with law enforcement authority is anywhere close by.

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In northern Minnesota, Bemidji community puts seniors on fish

Featured, Features, Fishing, Home Page News, Minnesota, National Fishing / Pat Miller

The enthusiasm youngsters display when they’re introduced to the world of fishing can be infectious. Doing something as enjoyable as catching your first perch, sunfish, or pike can be a memorable experience, and in many cases that moment can create an angling itch that will need to be scratched for a lifetime.
However, that itch can still persist well past the age at which many senior citizens have the ability to scratch it.

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Wildlife weather northern Minnesota storm, but hunter trails likely affected

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When the power went out and the warning sirens blared early on the morning of June 21 in northwestern Minnesota, all who were paying attention to the oncoming storm were prepared to head to their basements or some other secure location.
Beltrami County sustained the bulk of the storm’s fury during its rampage through Minnesota. No one knows exactly how many trees were felled by the sustained Category 3 hurricane-velocity gales that tore through the Bemidji, but no one would be surprised if the count exceeded a million.

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A case for fishing the Minnesota River — where ‘you never know what you may hook into’

Featured, Features, Fishing, Home Page News, Minnesota, National Fishing / Pat Miller

Along its 332-mile journey beginning in Big Stone Lake at the Minnesota-South Dakota border, the Minnesota River bends and snakes its way through farms, forests, fields, and swamps until it meets the Mississippi River south of the Twin Cities near Fort Snelling.
About two-thirds of its way to the Mighty Mississippi, the Minnesota flows through the rural countryside and tangled bottomlands near Henderson, Blakeley, Belle Plaine, Jordan, and Chaska, and for more than 60 years, Dave Wagner has been walking its banks and dropping a line into its water.

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Resorters across Minnesota are springing into action to get ready for fishing opener

Featured, Fishing, Home Page News, Minnesota, National Fishing, National News, News / Pat Miller

Minnesota’s walleye-fishing opener is fast approaching (May 10), and most of the state’s anglers have spent the past few weeks sharpening hooks, inventorying their jigs, putting new line on their reels, and checking their cold-weather rain gear in anticipation of that first day on the water.

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Minnesota graduate student is unraveling the mysteries surrounding bowfins

Featured, Fishing, Home Page News, Minnesota, National Fishing, National News, News / Pat Miller

A vast smorgasbord of fishy options is available to Minnesota’s anglers, but most of the state’s fishermen and women concentrate on a handful of species when they head to the water.
For many, the walleye is at the top of the list, but crappies, bass, sunfish, pike, muskies, catfish, trout, and a few others receive attention during certain times of the year. One species oft scorned by Minnesota anglers is the bowfin (dogfish). Categorized by state officials as a native rough fish and for which no fishing regulations apply, anglers may treat the fish as they wish.

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As older deer hunters ‘age out,’ who will replace them?

Featured, Home Page News, Hunting, Minnesota, National Hunting / Pat Miller

For almost half a century, Rick Deuel, of Steamboat Lake, south of Cass Lake, eagerly awaited the Minnesota firearms deer-hunting season.
“Deer season was great. As a kid, I couldn’t wait until I was old enough to go deer hunting,” Deuel recalls. “The entire family got together, went ‘up north,’ and hunted. I couldn’t wait for them to come back in the evenings so I could hear how everybody did.”
When Deuel reached the magical age of 14, he officially became part of the family’s deer-hunting party, and his enthusiasm for the hunt continued for the next 50 years. In recent seasons, however, his outlook has changed a bit.

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For one Minnesota family, public-land deer hunt is a 70-Year Tradition

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

When Virgil and Mary Ann Baltes moved to Blackduck, Minn., in 1953, they became friends with folks who homesteaded forest property southeast of the city. A few years later, Virgil, a couple of his brothers, and his brother-in-law were invited to hunt deer there. They quickly accepted the invitation.
“The way I remember, that was the start of the Balteses hunting that land,” said Virgil’s son Jim. “And this year, we will be back again.”

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Minnesota tribal member hunts to help his band’s elders

Longtime Minnesota conservation officer details the ‘tricks’ of violators

In northern Minnesota, Bemidji community puts seniors on fish

Wildlife weather northern Minnesota storm, but hunter trails likely affected

A case for fishing the Minnesota River — where ‘you never know what you may hook into’

Resorters across Minnesota are springing into action to get ready for fishing opener

Minnesota graduate student is unraveling the mysteries surrounding bowfins

As older deer hunters ‘age out,’ who will replace them?

For one Minnesota family, public-land deer hunt is a 70-Year Tradition

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