Metro Area Fishing Report – May 1, 2025 – video
Matt Johnson
May 1, 2025
Once again, the patterns change everyday and keep us on our toes.
Minnesota
Minnesota DNR looking into how county handled killing of an elk
Natalie Ryder
May 1, 2025
On Jan. 31, 2025, the Kittson County Sheriff’s Office received a call from a resident after he allegedly shot and killed an elk that was grazing on his property, according to a sheriff’s report.
Breaking down the many black bass subspecies beyond largemouths and smallmouths
Louie Stout
May 1, 2025
Ask most Outdoor News followers to name the different species of black bass and, most likely, you’ll hear largemouth and smallmouth.
Rightly so. Those are the primary species of bass we have in northern
Focus on these important details to trigger a tom
Mark Strand
May 1, 2025
According to my turkey-hunting mentor, Ray Eye, skilled hunters in the Missouri Ozarks have forever wished there was no such thing as a spring season. Why? Because they think it’s not fair to hunt gobblers
Longtime coordinator reflects on growth of Minnesota DNR’s Becoming an Outdoors Woman program
Natalie Ryder
May 1, 2025
East Bethel, Minn. — As the mentors and mentees – who’d worked for several weeks to hone their bowhunting skills – headed for their turkey-hunting blinds April 25, Linda Bylander, the decades-long coordinator of the
Streams of Thought: Kudos to Minnesota’s Jeff Manke and others like him
Tim Spielman
May 1, 2025
I haven’t yet taken the opportunity to offer my congratulations and thanks to our 2025 Person of the Year, Jeff Manke, of Cambridge, Minn.
Jeff’s various contributions to the outdoors and his local community
Steve Carney: With spring fishing, timing is everything
Steve Carney
April 30, 2025
My second fishing trip to the Minnesota/South Dakota border waters of Lake Traverse and Big Stone Lake was much better than my first trip. Water temperatures had risen into the low 50s, and the bite
Bad Medicine Lake is a great cure for the springtime angling itch in Minnesota’s Becker County
Glen Schmitt
April 30, 2025
Before taking a look at the current status of Bad Medicine Lake in Becker County, it’s important to look at its unique past.
Bad Medicine is a 4-mile-long, narrow fishery that lies within the
Minnesota’s Outdoor Calendar
Staff Report
April 30, 2025
A look at upcoming outdoors-related events from across Minnesota published in the May 2, 2025, edition of Outdoor News.
