
Minnesota Pro Fishing Tip of the Week: Open-water prep starts with fishing line
Many anglers are putting their ice-fishing equipment away and preparing for the open water. With that in mind, it’s time to strip line off reels and get them ready.

Many anglers are putting their ice-fishing equipment away and preparing for the open water. With that in mind, it’s time to strip line off reels and get them ready.

After a challenging ice-fishing season, it’s time to retire the ice gear for the season. Many ice anglers just throw their ice gear into a corner in a garage or other storage, only to find

It was a Sweet Sixteenth birthday celebration in a deer way for Avery Semler.
The London, Ohio, teen harvested not one, but two trophy bucks last November – the month she legally became old

Many years ago, my grandpa took me aside at duck camp and handed me a few old and beat-up foam Herter’s diver decoys.
“These rode the waves many times, with me and your great

I have an important message and a confession to make to all fishermen who fish with natural baits: I love dead-sticking. In recent years, the growing trend seems to be baiting your bucktail jigs with

Growing up deer hunting during the shotgun season in southern Minnesota, I learned there was a general mindset about hunting deer-bedding areas: Just don’t do it. You’ll chase deer from a property.
Honestly, doing

Hypothetical situation: You’re stranded, starving, and close to death from lack of food.
You’ve just found some fishing gear and it includes two identical fishing lures, identical except one of them has a single

The barred owl “shock” call is a good choice when trying to strike up a bird or roost a gobbler for the next morning’s hunt. This locator tactic also works well during other times, especially

As the morning mist began to clear, a tom hammered from his roost. Perched on a large hackberry tree limb in a finger of woods running up into a cut cornfield, the big bird was
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