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Dean Bortz: Spring hearing update, and is work being done to halt the return of numbered deer units in Wisconsin?
What we’re going to talk about here today – a possible change in Wisconsin’s deer unit boundaries to numbered units in the two forest zones and a preview of the April 14 spring fish and

Jeff Frischkorn: Chasing the winter doldrums one fly at a time
Each whisk of wind that danced through the folds of whatever jacket I’ve worn this winter was met with the same uncharitable oath of condemnation. It was not always so.
Time was once I

Minnesota’s House of Representatives back in action, with outdoor bills among first on the table
The Minnesota House of Representatives convened for the first time on Thursday, Feb. 6, after Republicans and DFLers reached a power-sharing agreement.
They didn’t waste time once they arrived: More than 300 bills hit

Notes off a soiled cuff: Federal protection of hellbenders could impact trout stocking in part of Pennsylvania
In mid-December, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced a proposal to list the eastern hellbender as an endangered species throughout its range under the Endangered Species Act. A population of the unique, huge salamander

Steve Griffin: Michigan’s big, burly, Saginaw Bay replete with walleyes
What irony! I love just about everything about my neighbor, big, burly Saginaw Bay. But I’m not the person you’re most likely to see on that lobe of Lake Huron.
A few Fridays ago

Oxygen levels bump up in some Minnesota lakes, potentially impacting fish
While hard-water anglers are reveling this season with the opportunity to fish on thick, clear ice, the clarity and a relative lack of snow have turned some lakes into “greenhouses,” allowing aquatic plants to more

New Minnesota DNR advisory committee meets for first time
The Fish and Wildlife Advisory Committee, the new iteration of the Minnesota DNR’s citizen oversight committees, met for the first time on Monday, Feb. 3, for a kickoff.
“We built momentum in the first

New York Fishing Report – February 7-14, 2025
The yellow perch bite has been very good lake-wide in 6-15 feet of water on this fishery.

North Dakota Fishing Report – February 12, 2025 – video
Access and ice conditions are sitting really good this year. And the bite?