Metro Area Fishing Report – January 4th, 2013
LAKE MINNETONKA AREA The smaller bays have eight to 10 inches of ice, while the big lakes and bigger bays average six inches. On Lake Minnetonka, walleyes are hitting setlines and shiner minnows in 20
LAKE MINNETONKA AREA The smaller bays have eight to 10 inches of ice, while the big lakes and bigger bays average six inches. On Lake Minnetonka, walleyes are hitting setlines and shiner minnows in 20
ALEXANDRIA AREA Walleyes continue to bite best during the evening hours on glow spoons and minnow heads or setlines and shiner minnows in 12 to 18 feet on Lake Le Homme Dieu, Lake Ida, and

When it’s all said and done, deer hunters in 2012 will have killed about 5 percent fewer deer than they did in 2011.

With two zones already closed to wolf hunting and trapping, the Northwest Zone was moving ever-closer to closure, too, as of late last week.

As 2012 draws to a close, Minnesota sportsmen and women can look back on a year that saw their hunting and fishing license prices increase, but harvest levels for several species of game decrease.
District 1 – Baudette area CO Ben Huener (Roseau) checked anglers and spearing activity on Hayes Lake and Lake of the Woods. A high school job shadow accompanied the officer for a day. A snowmobile
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The beginning of another hard-water season looms is underway, and for me that means some of the year’s best fishing has arrived. Early ice provides some of the best hard-water fishing of the year, but
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