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Minnesota’s Pro Fishing Tip of the Week: Fall-like weather keeps the fish biting
Is it fall? The calendar tells us it’s fall, but our thermometers are telling us otherwise. With the warm water and air, do fish still go into their fall patterns? Yes!

Study of lake trout population in New York’s Follensby Pond provides unique educational opportunity
Over the summer, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and The Nature Conservancy announced a pair of conservation easements they had agreed upon pertaining to 14,600 acres in the Adirondacks.
One easement

Committee keeps focus on angler concerns in greater Chicago region
Nine times a year, a group assembles to discuss a topic they have a vested interest in – fishing the greater Chicago region.
The Chicago Fishing Advisory Committee, formerly known as the Mayor’s Fishing

Ferne Clyffe State Park, a southern Illinois fishing, hiking jewel, celebrates 75 years
Ferne Clyffe State Park marked its diamond jubilee with a day of youth fishing, rock climbing demonstrations and words from retired DNR district heritage biologist Andy West.
The southern Illinois park’s 75th anniversary celebration

New York Fishing Report – September 27-October 4, 2024
Lake Erie anglers enjoyed favorable lake conditions and excellent walleye action over the past week.

Lake of the Woods Fishing Report – October 1, 2024
Jigging with frozen or live emerald shiners is the ticket.

Bass Fishing Hall of Fame welcomes five new members, unveils venue expansion
To the three bullies on the bridge, Mark Zona has a message for you: Bass fishing is cooler than you’ll ever be.
It has perhaps never been as cool as it was on

Fall trout season to open at 60 sites in Illinois on Oct. 19
The 2024 Illinois fall trout season will open Oct. 19 at 60 ponds, lakes, and streams throughout the state.
The early catch-and-release season will open at select sites on Oct. 5, but anglers are

Preventing largemouth bass cannibalism is focus of Southern Illinois University study
The largemouth bass is popular among anglers, who know that familiar “thump” of a fish hitting a lure.
But researchers at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale are studying ways to keep the infamously cannibalistic