As the family gathered around the Christmas tree, the 13-year old boy noticed an elongated gift, crudely wrapped, and wondered.
As the family gathered around the Christmas tree, the 13-year old boy noticed an elongated gift, crudely wrapped, and wondered.
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The young Minnesota deer hunter explained: ‘’I saw the doe come out and I raised my gun. But then her two fawns came out. I’m not shooting her.’
The kid is under 14 years old, so what do you think? Poor decision? Hunting is shooting? Soft heart? Get over it, kid. Sympathy has no place in the woods; shoot the SOB! Good decision? Your decision was fine, kid. Compassion as a hunter is always admirable.
I’m on the kid’s side. And I’m also, as an aging hunter, in the sixth stage of a hunter’s life.
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The eight-member citizens commission for the South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks Department voted recently to continue pitting hunters against hunters. It’s nothing new.
In this case, members of the South Dakota Wildlife Federation packed a commission meeting and demanded a reduction in how many nonresidents are allowed to hunt during the spring turkey season in the Black Hills.
I screwed up. A fella talked to me at Game Fair and said my recent column in Outdoor News about my great skills as a trapper of pocket gophers included a big error.
I examined my own gopher research and discovered that yes, I screwed up. I wrote that pocket gophers use their cheek pockets to help move dirt in their underground tunnels. Wrong!
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A common creed of a fishing writer, such as myself, is to always tell the truth – the whole truth or enough of the truth to make a fishing story believable.
So, the following is my fishing story from recent times. This confession is absolutely the truth, although some of you will find it hard to believe. Or maybe not.
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Here’s another thing this nation needs: a National Pocket Gopher Trapping Awards Program.
I’m serious. I’ll volunteer as organizer. There was a day when I was the best pocket gopher trapper in Allamakee County, Iowa. It’s a title I bestowed on myself because gopher trapping is a solitary job so there were no witnesses to my trapping savvy. Just take my word for it.
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“The more you know, the more you know you don’t know.”
Aristotle is credited with that bit of wisdom. I never met him. The Greek philosopher was born something like 300 years before Christ.
Yet, Aristotle’s quote comes to mind nowadays. In recent weeks, I’ve been listening to, reading about, and discussing the Minnesota DNR’s fish-management program at meetings with state fisheries leaders and MN-FISH officers.
For example, I didn’t know DNR’s Fisheries Section – those fisheries employees who manage the lakes, survey fish and anglers, stock lakes, operate hatcheries, and do this and that – is operating with fewer workers than it was 30 years ago.
Ron Schara: State spending on Minnesota fisheries is shameful Read More »
Feeling sorry for him, I handed him the fishing rod.
Oh my, yes. I can still remember that fateful moment frozen in a time warp of stupidity. What happened to my greatest angling fantasy at the moment? What was I thinking? Obviously, I wasn’t.
You need to understand: In the backwaters of a fisherman’s mind linger rare and improbable angling fantasies.
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Opening Day in Minnesota doesn’t mean baseball. Or the State Fair. Nope. Opening Day in Minnesota is the first day of a love story: Minnesotans and walleyes.
I wrote something similar a few years ago, but nothing has changed. Nor have our major Minnesota holidays: Christmas, New Year’s Day, and Opening Day of fishing.
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