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Associate Editor St. Paul These are hard times indeed to be General Fund-dependent in Minnesota. Just ask officials from agencies like the state’s Board of Water and Soil Resources, charged with administering funding for the

NORTHEAST METRO The cold weather has prevented anglers from really keying in on any consistent panfish action. There are scattered crappie reports coming off School Section Lake and Green Lake in 15 feet of water.

HUTCHINSON Granite Lake still is producing sunfish and a few crappies during the early morning hours in 12 to 18 feet of water. Look to Ripley Lake for a sunfish/crappie mix in 14 feet of

Correspondent St. Paul Rep. Tom Hackbarth, R-Cedar, introduced two bills in the Minnesota House last week that would establish a hunting season for mourning doves. One bill, H.F. 530, instructs “the commissioner (to) prescribe an

LAKE MILLE LACS The deep rock areas seem to be the only places worth noting for perch this week. There aren’t many people fishing, although the perch caught on the rocks seem to be bigger

I wonder if the Shad Rap will go down in history as the most effective crankbait ever for walleye? I wonder about grown men who have to wear gloves when putting a leech on their

Northern Wisconsin DNR crews surveyed trout on many streams in Oneida, Vilas, Forest, Florence, Lincoln, and Langlade counties and found that trout appear to be doing well, said Mike Vogelsang, fisheries supervisor at Woodruff. Population

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