
Creating the ‘million-dollar’ fishing lure, Part 1
You’ve been working on an idea for a new crankbait. Slaving away in your basement, you’ve been able to make a crude sample that shows some promise but needs a little “tweak” or two to

You’ve been working on an idea for a new crankbait. Slaving away in your basement, you’ve been able to make a crude sample that shows some promise but needs a little “tweak” or two to

Brilliant sunlight illuminated the horizon as I pulled my cell phone out of a jacket pocket to check the time.
“Legal shooting time,” I uttered to my buddy, Mike, lying in a makeshift layout

While rearranging tools and lawn-care gear in our backyard shed last week, I paused to inspect the duck and goose decoys stacked high and wide along the shed’s south wall.
My hand-crafted decoys aren’t

For most Minnesota anglers, bass are the boys of summer. Think bass and you think muggy mornings and long, sun-shot summer evenings. Topwater frogs in the lily pads, or deep weed edges and crankbaits when

As the Minnesota firearms deer opener rolls around again on Saturday, Nov. 8, a father-and-son duo know where they’re hunting and who they’re hunting with as this year’s opener marks the 50th opener of hunting

In a recent Minnesota DNR news release, deer hunters were reminded to refresh their ability to know the difference between deer and elk. Why? You can’t shoot elk, dudes.
A case can be made,

The much-studied wolf population in the Greater Voyageurs Ecosystem (GVE) of northern Minnesota is at its lowest level in roughly the past decade.
The population – estimated at 100 wolves – dropped 19%

A deer hunter’s elevated stand offers a unique portal into nature.
I thought about this last week while perched in an ash tree 17 or so feet above the ground, bow and arrow

As Conservation Officers Hanna Wood and Emily Douvier were cruising the backroads of Otter Tail County, Minn., on Wednesday, Oct. 29, Douvier thought she spotted a dead swan in a field.
Naturally, the officers
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