
Minnesota’s statewide fishing and hunting report on Sept. 17, 2025
Fish patterns haven’t changed as warm weather persists. A look at the Minnesota fishing and hunting report on Sept. 17, 2025.

Fish patterns haven’t changed as warm weather persists. A look at the Minnesota fishing and hunting report on Sept. 17, 2025.

Archery deer hunting began last weekend – just in time for a September warmup that included temperatures that soared to around 90 degrees in southern parts of Minnesota, and lingered in the 80s for much

I have a friend from South Dakota – a veteran, lifelong waterfowler who hunts a minimum of four days a week during the season – who didn’t purchase a decoy until he was in his

I used to take my two sons to southern Texas during spring break to bowhunt hogs at a high-fence ranch. (I’m not a beach guy; I’d rather hunt.) In three days of hunting, we’d average

Count Outdoor News among those endorsing Dennis Anderson’s suggestion that the Minnesota DNR should coordinate and host a Duck Summit. Gov. Mark Dayton pitched a Pheasant Summit in 2014, and hunters may actually be enjoying

Opening-week strategies for bowhunting deer hunters often center on ag fields and food plots. Whether that’s posting up over a sea of soybeans or on half an acre of clover planted just for the deer,

While spending Minnesota’s Sept. 1 bear-hunt opener watching a bait in Bear Permit Area 31, it was unusually quiet as Laura Gaulke, of Cloquet, said she’d seen only a squirrel and a grouse. So when

When the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released its 2025 Waterfowl Breeding Population and Habitat Survey Field Reports on July 3 – the precursor to the annual Waterfowl Population Status Report – you could almost

I hunted the dove opener along the South Dakota/North Dakota border and my opening-day results were mediocre. I couldn’t believe the shift this year from small-grain crops to only bean fields and some corn. The
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