Pre-planning your early season with a game plan
Before heading out for early season walleyes, you must find a lake with walleyes. That sounds obvious, but you can’t catch a fish that doesn’t exist!
Before heading out for early season walleyes, you must find a lake with walleyes. That sounds obvious, but you can’t catch a fish that doesn’t exist!

During the early part of the Easter legislative break, Sen. Bill Ingebrigtsen was gung-ho about a May 5 fishing opener this year – a week earlier than the May 12 scheduled opener.

A greater share of the proceeds from the sale of federal Duck Stamps is on its way to the prairie breeding grounds.

Asian carp “very easily” could be in waters in southern Minnesota, the result of their discovery in Iowa border waters.
Unseasonably warm weather has brought loons back to Minnesota almost three weeks earlier than usual.
Rainbow trout fishing will once again return to Paul’s Creek, near St. Peter, as the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) begins stocking operations for the April 14 stream trout opener.
A new required decal is now available for Minnesota boaters to help remind them of the state’s aquatic invasive species laws, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announced today.

Fishermen would be able to target walleyes a week earlier than usual this year, under a proposal from two northern Minnesota lawmakers.

When officials in Canada announced a directive that would enable a number of single-offense Americans to return to the country to hunt or fish – without paying a “rehabilitation” fee – they did so with
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