
State pheasant index jumps 29 percent in 2016
Index is below 10-year average

Index is below 10-year average
Banquets/Fundraisers Sept. 9: Perham DU Banquet, 5:30 p.m., Perham Lakeside Golf Club. For more info call Tony Paul, 218-371-6338. Sept. 9: Chain of Lakes DU Banquet, Broadway Ballroom. For more info call Rick Thiery, 320-808-1663.
Great Eight LAKE MILLE LACS With the walleye season now closed, it’s all about smallmouth bass, northern pike, and muskies. Northern pike continue to be caught on the weedlines of most bays with minnows or

The popular bird has appeared in great numbers across a wide swath of the birding belt during early fall migration.

Learn to run spinner rigs and you’ll catch more fishing throughout the open-water angling season.
Banquets/Fundraisers Sept. 6: MDHA North Suburban September Chapter meeting, 7:30 p.m., Kraus Hartig VFW, Spring Lake Park. Sept. 8: McLeod County DU Banquet, 5:30 p.m., Crow River Winery, Hutchinson. For more info call Brant Duhn,
Great Eight LAKE MILLE LACS East – Walleyes continue to be caught shallow and deep, although fishing pressure has been light. You’ll find walleyes on the mud flats and deep basin areas off structure, and
District 1 – Baudette area CO Eric Benjamin (Warroad) worked bear baits, and AIS and angling enforcement. CO Nicholas Prachar (Baudette) reports a busy week of fishing on Lake of the Woods. Multiple tournaments have

The reaction has been mixed, if predictable, to the announcement last week that the open-water walleye-fishing season on Lake Mille Lacs would close Sept. 6, after Labor Day.
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