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Outdoor Insights: Looking deep into walleye regulations on Lake Mille Lacs after topic dominates MN-FISH summit

Featured, Fishing, Home Page News, Minnesota, National Fishing, Opinion /

Angling advocacy group MN-FISH held its annual summit last Tuesday in St. Paul, and the walleye regulation on Lake Mille Lacs occupied half the afternoon.
Brad Parsons, DNR fisheries chief, explained the agency’s thinking behind the controversial catch-and-release regulation that began with the open-water season last Saturday. (This year’s walleye regulation is catch and release through at least Aug. 15, then there could be some limited harvest late this summer.) By the end, most attendees at the summit appeared unhappily satisfied with the agency’s logic behind the reg.

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Outdoor Insights: Early deer harvest numbers trending lower so far in Minnesota

Featured, Hunting, Minnesota, National Hunting, Opinion /

Joining me on last weekend’s Outdoor News Radio show and podcast, Barb Keller, the DNR’s big-game program leader, said she doesn’t expect Minnesota’s deer kill this year to exceed 2022’s. Whitetail hunters a year ago took 172,000 deer across all seasons for a 32% success rate, and Keller said lower deer numbers in northern Minnesota likely will keep statewide harvest lower again in 2023. Central and southern hunters could help by hunting hard and killing multiple deer, but overall, Keller expects a kill similar to 2022 and maybe even slightly lower.

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Katie McKalip is New VP of Communications and Marketing at Ruffed Grouse Society/American Woodcock Society

National Hunting, National News /

Katie McKalip, the longtime vice president for external affairs and communications at Missoula, Mont.-based Backcountry Hunters and Anglers has left the organization to join the Ruffed Grouse Society/American Woodcock Society. 
Oct. 18 marked her last day at BHA, and she’ll officially begin at RGS as the nonprofit’s vice president of communications and marketing on Monday, Nov. 6.

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