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MN: Opener walleyes bite well despite weather

Bemidji, Minn. – The number of walleyes Minnesotans caught on opening day depended on their willingness to take serious abuse from Mother Nature. A steady 35-mile-per-hour northeast wind, finger-numbing temperatures, and rain took its toll

Do Politicians Really Like to Fish?

I’ve been attending Minnesota Governor’s Fishing Openers since Rudy Perpich’s second term in the late 80s and early 90s and I was at yet another this year on Lake Pokegama near Grand Rapids, the first

MN: Treaty harvest down this spring on Mille Lacs

‘Fish In’ planned for Upper Red Aitkin, Minn. – It’s been a long, drawn-out spring fishing season for members of the six Ojibwe bands that net and spear fish from Mille Lacs in central Minnesota,

Minnesota DNR on how fishing license dollars are spent

Minnesota DNR’s Fisheries Chief, Dirk Peterson, sent out a release describing how money is spent from the sale of state fishing licenses. According to Peterson, the DNR’s fisheries section has a yearly operating budget of

MN: License increase still on the table

St. Paul – Proposals to create new fishing and hunting licenses and increase the fees for existing licenses, and to boost watercraft registration fees, haven’t been heard yet at the Legislature, but don’t rule them

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