Metro Area Fishing Report – August 29th, 2014
LAKE MINNETONKA Look for walleyes to hit minnows or crawlers on the sharp breaks and deep weedlines in most large bays. Muskies are being raised with bucktails on the points in 12 to 15 feet.
LAKE MINNETONKA Look for walleyes to hit minnows or crawlers on the sharp breaks and deep weedlines in most large bays. Muskies are being raised with bucktails on the points in 12 to 15 feet.
Banquets/Fundraisers Sept. 3: West Central DU Banquet, The Oaks in Willmar. For more info call Mike Brown, 320-295-9547. Sept. 4: Grand Rapids Delta Waterfowl Banquet, 5 p.m., Timberlake Lodge, Grand Rapids. For more info call
LAKE MILLE LACS East – Drifting sucker minnows on the 10- to 15-foot weedlines in most bays has produced northern pike. Smallmouth bass are hitting tube jigs or crankbaits on the rock piles in the
FARIBAULT AREA Look to Cedar Lake for crappies, bass, and sunfish in 10 to 12 feet, while the weedlines and bars on Shields Lake are giving up bass and sunfish in 9 feet. Lake Mazaska

Last year, after about 100 years of requiring waterfowlers to conceal themselves in emergent vegetation when hunting on public waters, the DNR allowed hunters on some waters to hunt among the open seas.

Small-game license sales continued their decline in 2013, and the pheasant harvest dipped to its lowest point since 1986, according to a small-game report the DNR released earlier this week.

Manufacturers of traditional ATVs and the increasingly popular side-by-side UTVs are expanding their lineups at both ends of the spectrum.
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Prohibit acquisition with the proposed $10 increase in the cost of the federal Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp? No thanks.
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