Tips & Features
Need to top off your tackle box before winter? Here are new innovations from the ice-fishing industry
With another ice fishing season quickly approaching, anglers once again have reason to be excited about all the new fish-catching tools available for the 2025-26 hard-water season.
Here’s a quick peek at a handful
The ‘million-dollar’ fishing lure, Part 2
Let’s recap where we are.
Internet sales of your lures are getting better, dealer sales are improving, and a distributor has gotten you a test run with a major retailer. Here we go. The
Ryan Rothstein: It’s OK to not shoot a deer
While I’m writing these words, the outcome of my Minnesota firearms season has yet to be determined. I don’t know how it will play out, have no idea what I’ll see, and certainly have no
Dean Bortz: I’d settle for another deer season just like 2021
Not being a prophet, nor clairvoyant by any means, I have no way of knowing how the rest of the 2025 hunting seasons will play out. I’ll just hope everyone in our hunting group can
The art of rattling for November bucks
Now, that does not mean you cannot rattle in a buck during a gun season. I’ve done it and so have others. In fact, I once rattled in and killed a fine 8-point buck on
Here’s how to beat the post firearms opening-weekend slump this whitetail season
Most of the whitetail hunters who pick up a firearm to participate in the general firearms season pin their hopes on opening weekend, and for good reason. Most of the deer that are shot throughout
Steve Carney: Curiosity killed the doe on a second chance
At this time of November, I typically grab my plastic doe decoy (Eunice) and head to my usual soybean field. A doe decoy works wonders during this month, because it gives any deer on the
Pro Fishing Tip of the Week: Now’s the time for night fishing on Minnesota’s Mille Lacs
Late-fall evening walleye fishing on Mille Lacs is a fantastic way to catch not only numbers but also big walleyes. Trolling shallow-running stickbaits is one of the more common and time-tested methods after dark on
Whitefish and the old ways: Maintaining a North Country tradition in Minnesota
Lake whitefish are a species of salmonid found in the cold waters of northern Minnesota, and across the upper Great Lakes region. I grew up spearing this cold-water species through the ice in early winter.
