Fishing
Minnesota’s fishing license sales make May surge
Heading into the Memorial Day weekend, fishing license sales in Minnesota had completed a comeback, with the most recent tally – the Friday prior to the weekend (May 26) – up 1% over 2022, according
Support not unanimous for Minnesota’s outdoors bill
A couple of weekends ago, the Minnesota Legislature ended its session with many different bills and policies passing in the final days and minutes. As is typically the case, not everyone approves what the Legislature
Outdoor Insights: Thoughts on important outdoor items from Minnesota’s legislative session
We don’t have to like everything that passed with the 2023 Minnesota Legislature, but – unlike most years in this space post-legislative session – I can’t say nothing happened.
Pro Fishing Tip of the Week: Bait, lures change during seasons
During early and late seasons on Lake of the Woods’ south shore, jigging for walleyes and sauger is the preferred method, with a slow, vertical presentation. Schools of fish are near points and edges of
New Illinois Outdoor News feature, ‘Histories Forgotten,’ explores our game laws’ early days
Everyone seems to have a good time with our “Cuffs and Collars” page, the section of Outdoor News that shares incidents and reports from DNR’s Conservation Police Officers.
Even after roughly 16 years of
Illinois game law enforcement was slow to develop
In the coming weeks and months, I will expose readers to a small portion of the materials I uncovered and studied while writing my books. My objective is to educate the citizenry about past decisions
Teutopolis High School lands Illinois bass fishing title by overcoming field on slow day two
The Wooden Shoes of Teutopolis caught 8 pounds, 15 ounces of fish on day two at Carlyle Lake to proverbially “drop the shoe” on what had been a tight field after day one.
And
Illinois Outdoor Hall of Famer Jim Grandt selected for seat on Fishing Hall of Fame’s Selection Committee
Grandt, who was inducted into the Fresh Water Fishing Hall of Fame in 2018, is president of Grandt Industries, an Illinois-based outdoors equipment manufacturing, engineering, and marketing firm.
Fish, anglers benefit from Mississippi River collaboration across state boundaries
As a new employee, the first task assigned to DNR fisheries biologist Dan Sallee was to join a team of other biologists in a study of backwater lake management techniques. It was 1980 and the
