While first typing these words, March 2026 was delivering a foot of snow to Minnesota. Last week looked and felt like winter, but warm weather already had ruined the ice. What is an angler to
Rep. Emma Greenman, DFL-Minneapolis, has introduced legislation that would ban the possession of semiautomatic military-style weapons and add criminal penalties to those who own one. Greenman introduced HF4081 to the House Judiciary Finance and Civil
Here’s a look at the Iowa fishing report from across the state on March 12, 2026.
The man next to me, tending to a barrel smoker that was billowing smoke, handed me a piece of sucker on the end of a plastic fork – before I had even introduced myself.
The Minnesota DNR currently is proposing unnecessary limits on the taking of native rough fish. This seems to be a continuing policy of limiting harvest opportunities for outdoor enthusiasts from the agency.
Limits on
In 1875 the fish commissioners of Minnesota released their first annual report. They were wildly optimistic that whitefish would fuel a commercial fishing boom, if only they could eliminate the “vermin of the waters.”
The Minnesota DNR opened a public comment period on new limits for native roughfish last week that may stir more controversy than you’d expect.
Most anglers don’t think much about the half-dozen species subject
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources invites the public to comment on proposed rules related to daily and possession limits on native rough fish.
Under the new proposed rules, these fishes – including bowfin,
Crappies, bluegills, walleyes, trout, and even northern pike wind up on many dinner tables, but there is an abundant group of fish that rarely gets eaten – suckers.
For our purposes here, ‘suckers’ will
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