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Steve Carney: An ice season recap, and a word on the Winter Severity Index
What a weird ice-fishing season this year!
The season has to go down as the strangest that I can remember. It started out just fine, but as the season progressed, ice conditions kept a

Ron Steffe: Senators say Pennsylvania Game Commission has enough state game lands … I say bull!
I was immediately drawn to a recent front-page story in Pennsylvania Outdoor News.
After Bryan Burhans, Pennsylvania Game Commission executive director, delivered the commission’s annual report to the State Senate Game and Fisheries

Wolf management, shotgun zone elimination for deer, walleye stocking enter legislative fray in Minnesota
With the first committee deadlines about a month away for the state Legislature, there have been plenty of bills discussed in committees along with others recently introduced.
This week, the focus shifted to bills

Outdoor Insights: Important news items crossing my desk this week
The Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge borders four states and has been a haven for fish and wildlife since 1924.

Minnesota’s Pro Fishing Tip of the Week: Pressured fish? Get the lead out
When I’m forced to ice fish within a pressured community fishing spot or on a body of water full of conditioned/pressured fish, I get the lead out.
There is no doubt that most ice

Minnesota Mixed Bag: Deer and Turkey Classic coming to Canterbury Park
The 2024 Minnesota Deer and Turkey Classic is set for Canterbury Park in Shakopee, March 8-10.
Don’t miss this chance to take in a seminar from Melissa Bachman, Barry Wenzel, or Pat and Nicole

Notes off a soiled cuff: More on lobbying firms, license fees in Pennsylvania
His answer was kinda muddled. He sounded nervous, probably because his agency looks bad making this move.

Minnesota anglers eagerly awaiting Rainy River season with early spring feeling likely
Spring hasn’t quite sprung along the U.S.-Canadian border, but an unseasonably warm winter has anglers “giddy with anticipation,” as one official put it, for the early spring walleye and sauger season to open on the

Minnesota DNR mulls reduction in state walleye limit
It’s a conversation that’s seven years ongoing for the Minnesota DNR’s walleye workgroup, citizens who operate in an advisory role.
In other circles, the debate likely has gone on longer: Should the statewide walleye