Lake of the Woods Fishing Report – February 20, 2024
Site Staff
February 20, 2024
Overnight temps in the teens and twenties are maintaining ice nicely. Fishing continues to be excellent here.
Minnesota
Joe Albert: There’s fishing… and then there’s fishing in Alaska
Joe Albert
February 20, 2024
Aside from seeing “The Goonies” when it was still in theaters in Anchorage, I have pretty much no recollection of my family’s first trip to Alaska in 1985. But my dad caught a big king
Previewing the nation’s top bass fishing tournaments in 2024
Joe Albert
February 19, 2024
The Major League Fishing Bass Pro Tour kicked off in late January at Toledo Bend Reservoir, an 185,000-acre impoundment of the Sabine River that straddles Louisiana and Texas.
Kirk Schnitker: Minnesota government failing to properly address neonicotinoids harmful to the natural world
Kirk Schnitker
February 18, 2024
Last summer, I read an article from the Xerces Society – an advocacy organization whose stated goal is invertebrate conservation – that indicated many states were taking great steps to better regulate and reduce pesticide
Turkeys, pheasants benefiting from mild Minnesota winter so far in 2024
Brian Mozey
February 17, 2024
The 2022-23 and 2023-24 winter seasons have been complete opposites, and it’s allowed a couple of game bird species to increase their population, explore new locations, and provide a positive outlook for upcoming hunting seasons.<br
Mike Schoonveld: Deep thoughts about fishing with earthworms
Mike Schoonveld
February 17, 2024
I’m not a particularly deep thinker, and most of the time, like when I’m threading a worm on a hook, I’m not thinking much deeper than how deep I should dangle the worm.
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Minnesota’s Mille Lacs Lake sees 10% decrease in total harvest quota
Brian Mozey
February 16, 2024
The Mille Lacs Lake fisheries advisory committee (MLFAC) met on Tuesday, Feb. 15, to discuss open water regulations for the lake and 2024’s allowable walleye harvest level. That level is down from last year.
It’s a great winter to try the southeast Minnesota trout option
Site Staff
February 16, 2024
Down in the bottom-right-hand corner of Minnesota, some 700 miles of trout streams flow through the valleys between bluffs. They range from oversized trickles to wade-with-caution rivers. Finning in those cool, clear streams are brook
Commentary: A few ‘bad actors,’ and millions of reservation acres in Utah closed to hunting
Jim Shepherd
February 16, 2024
One of the vivid images from my childhood memory is that of the reaction of the community when my grandparents decided they needed to “post” their farm. I had no idea what the red and
