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Patrick Durkin: Fresh fish took direct path to Mom’s heart
I don’t know the secret to creating a hunter, trapper or angler, but a key to failing those goals is a mother who won’t drive her kids to the woods or waters, and cook whatever

Michigan’s Mike Kelly is the champion the Saginaw Bay watershed needs
The 7,000 miles of rivers that flow through the 8,700 square miles of the Saginaw Bay watershed have a long history of ecological calamity.
Dioxins in the Tittabawassee River, PFAS in the Shiawassee River,

Free fishing lure library appears in Wisconsin’s Hayward area
When Wisconsin high school senior Ethan Constantine approached Max Wolter, the DNR’s Sawyer County’s fish biologist, about ideas for an Eagle Scout project, the two put their heads together and came up with a unique

Perch spreaders losing ground to homemade perch ‘rigs’
More than 60 years ago when I began perch fishing with my dad and grandfather, the standard operating procedure was to use a wire spreader with two snelled hooks, each baited with an emerald shiner.<br

Oldest conservation group in New York gets new leadership
The oldest conservation organization in New York has been under the same leadership for more than a decade, but that is changing.
Chuck Parker, who has guided the New York State Conservation Council as

Another 100-pounder hits the scales at Alton Catfish Classic in Illinois
The roster of 100-pound fish pulled from the Mississippi River at Alton, Ill., continues to grow, much like the massive blue catfish that attract anglers from across the country.
A team competing in the

North Dakota Fishing Report – September 13, 2024 – video
A windy week on Devils Lake, with fall fishing just getting into full swing.

New York Fishing Report – September 13, 2024
Tthe timing is right for king salmon and brown trout to start showing off the piers at harbor mouths here.

Northern Wisconsin DNR fisheries teams continue with sturgeon work
Wisconsin DNR fisheries team members from the Park Falls and Hayward offices have been doing some lake sturgeon work in Sawyer, Price, and neighboring counties for several years now, and have found these large, old