Minnesota Mixed Bag: DNR issues ice warning for aerated lakes
The Minnesota DNR has issued its annual ice safety warning for lakes with winter aeration systems. The updated list of aerated lakes and more information is available on the DNR website.
The Minnesota DNR has issued its annual ice safety warning for lakes with winter aeration systems. The updated list of aerated lakes and more information is available on the DNR website.

We have good ice – definitely not ready for trucks yet, but many lakes are ATV/snowmobile ready. Here’s what that means for the bite.

It was, in retrospect, an incandescently stupid mistake.
I obviously didn’t listen close enough to the weather terrorists on television the previous night. Surely our indispensable news-meteorologists would have warned me about the biting

We are starting the 2024-25 ice-fishing season off well in Minnesota, with ice conditions much better than the previous couple of years. Luckily, the snow has held off, allowing the ice to form properly.
Cass County Sheriff Bryan Welk, in a news release, stated that on Dec. 9, at about 6 p.m., Cass County Sheriff’s Office Dispatch had received 911 emergency reports of two individuals that were traveling by

Tip-up fishing for northern pike can be exciting in itself, and there also can be a chance for a bonus walleye at times.

Ice fishing is in full swing on Lake of the Woods. Fishing reports have been very good. Good numbers of walleyes and saugers being caught with some nice jumbo perch, eelpout and pike as well.

Not bad for the first 1/2-hour of checking ice conditions on Mille Lacs.

He’d occasionally drag me onto a southern Minnesota lake when I was a kid growing up in Belle Plaine and Shakopee, but in most years, he’d make one trip to Lake Mille Lacs (or some
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