Metro Area Fishing Report – April 13, 2025 – video
Matt Johnson
April 13, 2025
Open-water fishing is here and the fish (crappies) are biting. Here’s a breakdown on the current conditions and what’s working.
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Taking kids turkey hunting can be a blast, but there’s ways to do it right
Site Staff
April 13, 2025
It wasn’t long ago when the best way to introduce youngsters to hunting youngsters to hunting involved a .22 rifle and some squirrels. Or maybe a single-shot shotgun and some cottontails. Today, most kids get
Minnesota high school students get fish curriculum that goes beyond angling 101
Roy Heilman
April 12, 2025
High school teacher Dan Kreft has brought a course to Hinckley-Finlayson High School that should be the envy of students all across Minnesota: angling.
When Kreft read about a school on Minnesota’s Iron Range
Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson offers wolf delisting bill
Beckie Gaskill
April 11, 2025
The battle to permanently delist the gray wolf in the lower 48 states continues at the federal level now that U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) joined two other senators last week to offer their version
Wolf delisting bill moves onto House of Representatives floor
Beckie Gaskill
April 11, 2025
Federal wolf delisting took one small step closer to becoming reality as members of the House Committee on Natural Resources passed the Pet and Livestock Protection Act, H.R. 845, out of committee by vote of
Those involved in the fishing business grapple with forward-facing sonar
Natalie Ryder
April 11, 2025
Longtime angler and Minnesota fishing guide Steve Scepaniak remembers the first time he went fishing at age 2 with his dad. As he grew up fishing in his free time, angling technology began to advance
Minnesota DNR developing updated Lake Superior fisheries plan
Joe Shead
April 11, 2025
A group of speakers from the Minnesota DNR, the Great Lakes Fishery Commission, U.S. Geological Survey, Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
Episode 535 – Coaster brookies spawning, remembering Jim Brandenburg, trout, turkeys, dire wolf
Site Staff
April 11, 2025
Managing Editor Rob Drieslein and Editor Tim Spielman talk about the recent find of spawning coaster brook trout in Lake Superior, plus they remember famed Minnesota wildlife photographer Jim Brandenburg. Then John Lenczewski from Minnesota
Walleye fishing looks promising in North Dakota waters this year
Jeff Benda
April 11, 2025
North Dakota anglers can look forward to a strong spring walleye-fishing season despite past challenges with winterkill of fish and fluctuating water levels.
Two years ago, more than 70 lakes across North Dakota suffered
