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Minnesota Mixed Bag: Duluth Sports Show begins Thursday, continues through Sunday
The Duluth Sport Show, featuring the latest in boats, RVs, travel destinations, hunting and fishing gear, and other fun and educational features, comes to the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center beginning Thursday and continuing through Sunday.

New group forms to advocate for Minnesota bowhunters
Minnesota’s archery community has a new support and advocacy group: the Minnesota Bowhunters Association.
Rolled out in January to promote bowhunting and archery across the state, the new nonprofit organization based in Grand Rapids

Minnesota Senate bill allows youth to build preference points for bear before they’re old enough to draw a license
Minnesota’s Senate Environment, Climate, and Legacy Committee on Feb. 4 supported S.F. 689, which would allow youth hunters to start earning preference points for black bear hunting before they turn 10 years old – the

Pro Fishing Tip of the Week: Panfish pandemonium on the horizon
Even though the game-fish bite is usually slowing, the panfish bite is heating up. For late-season walleyes, I suggest downsizing to the smallest spoon possible.

Pope and Young announces change to nontypical category for whitetails
Chatfield, Minn. — The bowhunting organization Pope and Young Club has announced a change to the minimum score required for nontypical white-tailed deer.

Pennsylvania Game Commission grants early OK to new rules for ag deer taking
The Pennsylvania Game Commission approved measures to address growing concerns about crop damage during the agency’s quarterly meeting on Jan. 25.
The Game Commission board granted preliminary approval to four measures aimed at expanding

Did you eat tag soup this past deer season? Take stock of why
For my first five deer seasons, I ate tag soup. To say the least, this was a very humbling and frustrating beginning.
I had sold myself on the idea that to become a man,

Could ‘master hunter program’ in Pennsylvania lead to more permissions on private lands?
The Pennsylvania Game Commission is considering an advanced hunter education program to certify hunters with the goal of opening up more private land.
Dubbed the “master hunter program,” Game Commission Executive Director Stephen Smith

Ohio Trailblazers: Pay attention to the fish pattern to catch more steelhead
John Breedlove’s mother once told him that he was the most observant person she knew.
That type of personality helps when you’re a serious steelhead fisherman as Breedlove has become known in Ohio’s Mahoning