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The Minnesota DNR will host a series of public meetings in December to gather comment on proposed experimental regulations to improve bluegill populations on backwaters of the Mississippi River. The regulations, which would apply only to the Minnesota side of the river, would reduce the current 25 fish daily limit to 10 fish daily limit […]

Just when you thought things were pretty straightforward, it seems someone always throws a new twist into the mix. Check out the size of the bluegill in the accompanying photo. A five-pound, 15-inch bluegill is certainly an attention grabber and Ken Holyoak, of Alapaha, Ga., claims to have ponds full of oversized panfish. It seems

Lansing, Mich. The Sierra Club filed suit Oct. 11 in federal court against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Michigan DNR. The suit charges that wildlife management activities funded through the federal Pittman-Robertson program violate the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The suit states that wildlife management

Madison Despite the fact that game wardens issued 2,397 citations for fishing without a license in the past fiscal year, the state’s chief warden believes that even more people will continue to violate that law in the future. Those 2,397 license violations are part of the total 17,962 arrests made by wardens last year that

Just watch out for elk & moose Madison Even before state wildlife managers tell deer hunters they can expect an outstanding November gun deer season, they issue this caution please watch out for elk and moose. That’s because elk and moose inhabit areas shared by white-tailed deer and visited by hunters. Moose have been sighted

October 26 – 29 – Early antlerless-only gun deer hunt in Zone T deer units only. All hunters (except waterfowl) required to wear blaze orange in Zone T deer management units during this period. Archery season will remain open, but is restricted to the harvest of antlerless deer. Oct. 28 – Fox season opens in

Nov. 11-12: Hartland Sportsman’s Club will be holding a Deer Sight-In from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Call Tom at 262-691-7698 for more info. Nov. 12: The Powers Lake Sportsmans Club deer season sight-in from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. Call 262-279-6170 for details. The club is located in western Kenosha County.

Request likely won’t happen By Tim Spielman Associate Editor Montevideo, Minn. Heading into the final week of goose hunting at the Lac qui Parle hunting zone in western Minnesota, guide Steve Baldwin and his crew had harvested about 20 birds. All told, hunters there had taken just over 2,000 birds, far below the 16,000-bird harvest