Minnesota’s statewide fishing report for Aug. 16, 2023
Staff Report
August 16, 2023
Minnows starting to turn walleyes as leeches become scarce. A look at Minnesota’s fishing report for Aug. 16, 2023.
Fishing
Anglers whistle happy tune when fishing for walleyes on Minnesota’s Loon in Jackson County
Glen Schmitt
August 16, 2023
Loon Lake is a 700-acre fishery that sits near the Minnesota/Iowa border in Jackson County. It’s a shallow lake, with a maximum depth of 7 feet, but it’s full of walleyes, which draw anglers from
Cormorants likely to blame for walleye decline in Minnesota’s Pelican Lake
Tori McCormick
August 16, 2023
Anglers and other interested outdoor enthusiasts have until 5 p.m. on Aug. 31 to comment on what the Minnesota DNR is calling “fish and cormorant population management alternatives” for Pelican Lake in western Minnesota’s Grant
Michigan Letters to the Editor: Tip of the hat on the recent and fine George Shriras story
Michigan Letters to the Editor
August 16, 2023
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Aug. 18, 2023 edition of Michigan Outdoor News.
Matt Becker wins Saginaw event in Michigan, Angler of the Year via last-day comeback
Major League Fishing Report
August 16, 2023
The storylines entering the Aug. 6 championship round of Major League Fishing’s Minn Kota Stage Seven presented by Suzuki on Saginaw Bay in Michigan focused on bass-fishing G.O.A.T. and Michigan native Kevin VanDam trying for
Here’s how to target Michigan’s summer bass, pike and muskies
Mike Gnatkowski
August 16, 2023
Anglers call it the summer doldrums. Water temperatures are peaking, water skiers, tubers, wakeboarders, and other recreationalists are turning area lakes into a froth, and tourists have descended in full force.
The simple fishing
Retiring captain, Peg VanVleet, recognized at Ohio sportsmen’s celebration
Jane Beathard
August 16, 2023
Captain Peg VanVleet, vice-president of environmental affairs for the Lake Erie Charter Boat Association, received a special Wildlife Award from the Ohio Division of Wildlife (DOW) on July 27.
The award marked VanVleet’s 25
Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission releasing channel catfish across state, blues in Ohio River
Tom Venesky
August 16, 2023
A few readers recently contacted Pennsylvania Outdoors News concerned that the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission is stocking invasive flathead catfish into the Susquehanna River.
Mike Parker, communications director for the agency, dispelled the
Maumee River project in Ohio teems with possibilities
Steve Pollick
August 16, 2023
A golden opportunity – well, at least a tantalizing possibility – exists to open up perhaps 30 more miles of the Maumee River to downstream fisheries at the Grand Rapids-Providence dams through a project to
