Hook and Bullet
Keep it warm, fun and fishy for new anglers
For ice anglers, first ice is truly the most wonderful time of the year. Fish are active because plants are still photosynthesizing and producing oxygen.
Roller-crimpers help cut herbicide use on cover crops
Roller-crimpers typically consist of a drum, or multiple drums, with a series of blunt blades that work by pushing the cover crop down and crimping the plants along the way.
A tasty duck recipe, and problems on the ice
In my never-ending quest for great recipes, I have discovered what’s called the “spatchcock” style of cooking duck or other fowl.
What’s in a fishy name? Depends on place, time
At top, catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) are present in a number of Minnesota lakes and rivers. In some cases they’re referred to as mud cats, polliwogs, or chuckleheads.
Hunter kills CWD-positive deer in Wisconsin’s famed Buffalo County
The infected doe was discovered in the border county across the Mississippi River from Minnesota’s Wabasha County.
Hunters kill 568 deer during CWD management hunt
DNR says no targeted culling will take place in DPA 184 near Bemidji this winter.
Weather cramping style of anglers, others in Minnesota
Early winter weather has been unkind to ice anglers, pheasant hunters, trappers, and, likely, many other users of the outdoors.
Former big league pitcher accused of deer poaching in Illinois
Danny Cox, who pitched for the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1980s, was one of eight people accused of deer hunting violations in St. Clair County.
It is part of two poaching cases in
Pennsylvania white buck killed in Fayette County
Community outraged after man is charged with killing the rare buck out of season.
