MN Daily Update: Spin-fish and fly-fish with a single rod
Site Staff
April 18, 2025
Tim Lesmeister carries one rod with him to the trout stream that he uses to both spin-fish and fly-fish. Here’s what he does.
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Ron Schara: Angler education is the key regarding forward-facing sonar
Ron Schara
April 18, 2025
Forward what? Some anglers have no clue what it is or what it does. Meanwhile, a growing number of anglers have added FFS to their fishing war chest. They’ve learned how and when to use
Commentary: Boundary Waters advocates celebrate U.S. senator’s attempt to protect the wilderness
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Report
April 18, 2025
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers, Sportsmen for the Boundary Waters, and Minnesota Trout Unlimited on April 9 commended U.S. Sen. Tina Smith, a Minnesota Democrat, for introducing the Boundary Waters Wilderness Protection Act to permanently protect
Video: Scouting leads to a tom on Minnesota’s spring turkey opener
Site Staff
April 17, 2025
Eric Morken spent a lot of time looking for birds, talking to landowners and scouting new properties ahead of Minnesota’s turkey opener on April 16, 2025. It paid dividends with a filled tag on a
Chippewa National Forest puts in food storage order to reduce conflicts with bears
Staff and News Reports
April 17, 2025
The Chippewa National Forest has put into place a Campground Food Storage Forest Order for all developed fee campgrounds.
The intent of the order is to reduce the steadily increasing number of human
Want to kill a gobbler? Just like hunting whitetails, scouting ups your odds
Ryan Rothstein
April 17, 2025
As a mostly casual turkey hunter, it took me years to really grab onto the concept of scouting for turkeys. After all, they gobble, so they’ll tell you where they are, right? That’s true sometimes,
Streams of Thought: U.S. House bill to delist wolves clears committee; what’s it really mean?
Tim Spielman
April 17, 2025
But will that change, in a (somewhat) new and inventive way? I tend not to get too worked up, as it were, when the subject matter is wolf management, by state governments or the one
Minnesota hunting incidents up slightly in 2024, with one fatality
Natalie Ryder
April 17, 2025
Minnesota’s 2024 hunting-related injury incidents were the highest they’d been since 2013, with 14 total injuries involving firearms use while hunting, and one fatality in Clay County that happened on the firearms deer season opener.
MN Daily Update: Lots of options for turkey hunters today
Site Staff
April 17, 2025
There are many options at a hunter’s disposal when it comes to calling in turkeys today. Tim Lesmeister offers some thoughts.
