Metro Area Fishing Report – September 14, 2025 – video
Matt Johnson
September 14, 2025
It was a good multi-species week in the metro area.
Minnesota
Why is meat from some feral hogs tainted blue?
Bob Zink
September 12, 2025
I used to take my two sons to southern Texas during spring break to bowhunt hogs at a high-fence ranch. (I’m not a beach guy; I’d rather hunt.) In three days of hunting, we’d average
Attention to detail – video
Terry Tuma
September 11, 2025
Examples include the water clarity and temperature, structural locations, weed growth and the depth where fish may be at, cast retrieve and trolling speed, to name a few.
Outdoor Insights: Time to organize a Duck Summit in Minnesota to address dwindling populations
Rob Drieslein
September 11, 2025
Count Outdoor News among those endorsing Dennis Anderson’s suggestion that the Minnesota DNR should coordinate and host a Duck Summit. Gov. Mark Dayton pitched a Pheasant Summit in 2014, and hunters may actually be enjoying
Persistence, big bucktails, and the right window can turn September into trophy muskie season
Jeremy Smith
September 11, 2025
Muskie – the fish of 10,000 casts. With a pseudonym as such, one can only assume that it’s difficult to catch. In fact, they’re often revered as the most challenging fish to catch in freshwater.
Early deer season is often all about acorns, but you have to figure out how to hunt the favored forage
Outdoor News
September 11, 2025
Opening-week strategies for bowhunting deer hunters often center on ag fields and food plots. Whether that’s posting up over a sea of soybeans or on half an acre of clover planted just for the deer,
Minnesota’s Zone 31 produces 560-pound bear as state hunters find average success early
Natalie Ryder
September 11, 2025
While spending Minnesota’s Sept. 1 bear-hunt opener watching a bait in Bear Permit Area 31, it was unusually quiet as Laura Gaulke, of Cloquet, said she’d seen only a squirrel and a grouse. So when
Liberal duck seasons expected again in 2026 after results of 2025 federal survey
Tori McCormick
September 11, 2025
When the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released its 2025 Waterfowl Breeding Population and Habitat Survey Field Reports on July 3 – the precursor to the annual Waterfowl Population Status Report – you could almost
Crappies rise among the ranks of Ash Lake’s offerings in northeast Minnesota (new interactive map for readers)
Glen Schmitt
September 10, 2025
If you head north on Highway 53 out of Orr for about 12 miles, you’ll drive right along the northeast corner of Ash Lake. Most anglers tend to drive right past Ash, putting it in
