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Steve Carney: The sweet lakes of Minnesota’s Becker County

Features, Fishing, Minnesota, National Fishing /

Fishing typically slows as we head into mid-July, and many of us struggle on our home lakes. Not much you can do under those circumstances other than start prospecting some new water.
I decided to commute a few days in a row to Minnesota’s Becker County and check out some of the gems sprinkled around the area. It’s about an hour from my house, but as dedicated readers know, I am used to making long, daily drives.

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Steve Carney: A good day guiding on a new lake

Features, Fishing, Minnesota, National Fishing /

I was nervous sitting at the boat launch wondering how I was going to pull a rabbit out of my hat. My clients had just bought a cabin on one of the lakes in the Cormorant chain of lakes near Detroit Lakes, Minn., and I had my work cut out for me.
I had zero intel on this water body, I but did some research on the DNR website and I found the fish numbers impressive.

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Steve Carney: Break out the crawlers and leeches

Featured, Features, Fishing, Minnesota, National Fishing /

The month of June is the best month of fishing of the season in Minnesota. Well, this hasn’t been the case as fluctuating temperatures really have messed up the bite.
As recently as 10 days ago we had water temperatures in the high 70s, some even pushing 80 degrees. Boom, here comes the change, and we now have dropped 15 degrees in water temperatures.

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Steve Carney: Fine tuning your late-spring minnow choices

Featured, Features, Fishing, Minnesota, National Fishing /

So far the 2026 open-water fishing season in Minnesota has been a minnow affair.
Minnows right now are producing much better than leeches or crawlers, and this trend usually continues well into June. Most of the walleyes I have caught recently have been absolutely loaded with minnows in their stomachs.

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Steve Carney: How to handle windy early season fishing

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

From my view on the water, opening weekend in Minnesota was tough for most anglers mainly because the wind was so horrible. After Saturday’s opener, I felt like I went 10 rounds with Mike Tyson.
I’d spent the day on a very small lake in Pope County, around 300 acres, thinking it would be wind-proof… ummm, no.

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