
Summer slabs: Top tips for warm-weather crappies
Post-spawn, “suspended” crappies intimidate too many freshwater anglers when simple approaches to targeting these panfish can produce thick, edible fillets.

Post-spawn, “suspended” crappies intimidate too many freshwater anglers when simple approaches to targeting these panfish can produce thick, edible fillets.

Though lots of birding opportunities remain, small shorebirds start migrating in mid-summer, and egrets and swallows already have begun staging for their journey south.

How walleye and bass fishermen respond to unstable weather and cold fronts defines our angling abilities more than any other factor.
District 1 – Baudette area CO Eric Benjamin (Warroad) worked boat and water safety, AIS, angling, and OHV enforcement. Weather put a damper on outdoor activities this past week, but those anglers who made the
Banquets/Fundraisers Aug. 1: Freeborn County DU Banquet, Oakview Golf Club. For more info call Jason Evans, 507-402-1531. Aug. 6: Elk River Goldeneyes DU Banquet, 5 p.m., Rockwoods Entertainment Center, Otsego. For more info call Tim
LAKE MILLE LACS East – Crankbaits continue to produce walleyes during the evening hours on the shallow rock reefs and rock points. During the day, leeches or crawlers will produce walleyes on the edges of
NORTHEAST METRO The weedlines of lakes Jane, Olson, and Demontreville are producing bass. Muskies are chasing bucktails on the 8- to 10-foot weedlines of Forest Lake, Bald Eagle Lake, and White Bear Lake. Sucker minnows
ALEXANDRIA AREA Sunfish continue to be caught in 8 to 12 feet at Lake Ida, Reno Lake, and Chippewa Lake. Plastics are producing crappies on the 12- to 16-foot cabbage of lakes Carlos, Le Homme

Wildlife, national parks, forests and grasslands, monuments, and a classic tourist trap draw the family truckster west from Minnesota.
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