Tips & Features
Christine Thomas: Wild women … and wild game cooking
“Would you be a special guest chef and demo your turkey piccata recipe at our cooking class at the Food+Farm Exploration Center in Plover in January?
James Lindner: Understand the weed factor for icing crappies
Throughout the winter, crappies are among the most popular targets of ice anglers. Most experienced hard-water fishermen are no stranger to the all-too-familiar basin crappie bite. It’s a relatively simple pattern: Crappies dump into soft-bottom
Steve Carney: Poor ice conditions disrupt potential great second half to ice-fishing season in Minnesota
It’s hard to believe ice conditions are regressing so early, so quickly. But that’s what we get with extremely warm weather in January and now February. The recent warm stretch was probably the longest I’ve
Five genius ways to rig a jigging spoon – no live bait needed
Next time you go ice fishing, leave the minnows – and the hassle that comes with them – at home.
Devils Lake perch: How to catch more and bigger fish – video
Some information and tips that will help you catch more perch on Devils Lake in North Dakota.
Minnesota’s Pro Fishing Tip of the Week: Perch are fun to catch, and great to eat
Big perch can be found in big waters with plenty of rocks, gravel, and weeds. Small lakes that have similar habitat can also produce large perch.
Andrew Zysek: Three favorite trap sets for catching midwinter coyotes
Coyotes may be trapped in the snow by a trapper who is willing to work hard for them. I have a few favorite trap sets for midwinter coyotes, including the trail set, chaff/hay bale set,
Don’t overlook goldenrod larvae as a go-to natural bait for panfish
Like many ice fishermen, I started preparation for the hard-water season several weeks ago. I checked out the portable fish house, but no mice had been at work. My auger started when called upon, and
When winter conditions are right, you can catch big trout
Winter is the least popular time for fly-fishing.
However, a small number of fly-fishing diehards sneak out to their favorite waters during the winter.
Some are big-trout anglers who use streamers to latch
