DNR invites public to serve on council to help boost hunter, angler numbers
Minnesota DNR Reports
June 5, 2018
Agency looks to zero in on hunter and angler recruitment, retention and reactivation.
Minnesota DNR
Lawmakers fail to resolve dispute over muskie stocking
Associated Press
June 1, 2018
NISSWA, Minn. — Lawmakers left St. Paul without resolving a long-running dispute over the stocking of Minnesota lakes with muskies. Opponents of introducing the ferocious predator fish to more lakes weren’t able to pass legislation
Minnesota Outdoor News Cuffs and Collars – June 1, 2018
Site Staff
May 31, 2018
District 1 – Baudette area CO Ben Huener (Roseau) investigated multiple wildfires in Kittson County. He also attended a stakeholder meeting at the Northwest Angle with CO Benjamin and spoke with first-grade students at Norris
DNR continues efforts to gauge Mille Lacs walleye population
Minnesota DNR Reports
May 29, 2018
Based on the number of walleye that were originally tagged and the total number of tagged fish that turn up during the recapture, the DNR said it can make an accurate estimate of the lake’s
Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin to collaborate on West Nile virus monitoring in ruffed grouse
Staff and News Reports
May 21, 2018
The three states are in the early stages of planning to test samples from grouse this fall, but at this point there is no evidence that the virus is having a population-level impact in the
Whopper silver redhorse is a record
Minnesota DNR Reports
May 21, 2018
Avid angler Dustin Stone caught a new state-record silver redhorse in the certified weight category of the Minnesota DNR‘s record fish program. Stone caught the 10-pound, 6-ounce silver redhorse while fishing for lake sturgeon on
Stillwater angler sets catch-and-release sturgeon record
Minnesota DNR Reports
May 21, 2018
The 73-inch lake sturgeon pulled from the Rainy River bests the previous record by 3 inches.
Tagged bighead carp leads DNR to 2 others in St. Croix River
Minnesota DNR Reports
May 17, 2018
The carp were captured in Anderson Bay on the St. Croix River. One was a 46-inch, 39-pound mature male, and the second was a 43-inch, 46-pound mature female.
On the eve of the opener, last few Minnesota fisheries continue to push toward ice-out [videos]
Site Staff
May 11, 2018
And a favorable forecast could make for a comfortable fishing opener after all.
