
Metro Area Fishing Report – March 8, 2026 – video
What a change a week brings – like a complete 180 from just days ago. Most of it has to do with weather and ice (access/shoreline) conditions, but the fishing is really good.

What a change a week brings – like a complete 180 from just days ago. Most of it has to do with weather and ice (access/shoreline) conditions, but the fishing is really good.

Recently, I was listening to a news report about movies and sound design. The reporter was interviewing a sound engineer, Al Nelson, about the 2025 movie race-car film F1: The Movie with Brad Pitt.

Before kicking off this inaugural column, a little about myself: I was born and raised in Ohio and moved to Minnesota after college, planning to stay just one year. Fifteen years later, I’m still here,

From 2021 to 2023, the Minnesota DNR, Minnesota Department of Health, and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency tested white-tailed deer that live on or around sites with possible PFAS contaminants to discover if so-called “forever

A buddy sent me a link to a story that appeared in The Atlantic Monthly back in January.
Titled “Eat More Deer – America is letting good meat go to waste,” the piece advocated

I’m sure this isn’t unique to Minnesota, but I can’t help but notice as I get older how many “contentious” deer regulation changes we’ve had in our state over the past 20 years.
We

Freshwater Fishing Hall of Famer Gary Roach says the crappie bite has gotten tougher because all of the aggressive fish have already been caught. Here’s what he does to catch the smart ones that remain.

Tyler Winter, from native Fish for Tomorrow, joins the program to advocate for native roughfish and remind listeners that the deadline to comment on lower limits for those species in Minnesota is Thursday, March 12.

Anglers on Minnesota’s Lake Mille Lacs will have the opportunity to harvest three walleyes starting on the fishing opener on Saturday, May 9. Harvested walleyes must be 17 inches or greater, with only one over
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