Minnesota Hunting

Gas prices lead to new use for boat - An angler let CO Scott Staples (Carlton) know that he was now fishing from shore because of the high gas prices. The new plan for his boat was to put it in the front yard, fill it with dirt, and plant flowers in it. Click to read many more bizarre outdoor tales...

Hundreds of double-crested cormorants, American white pelicans and other water birds were discovered dead or dying at two Minnesota lakes early last week. The discovery was made by Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) staff who were in the area banding pelicans at Minnesota Lake in Faribault County and Pigeon Lake in Meeker County...

A federal judge has approved a Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) plan that will protect lynx through additional restrictions on trapping east of U.S. Highway 53 in northeastern Minnesota...

Interested young people can apply by Aug. 15 for a chance to step into the field with an experienced guide this fall and step out carrying pheasants. The Pheasants Forever first-ever special mentored youth hunt is co-sponsored by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and takes place on Oct. 25...

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is making $445,000 available to local conservation organizations to work on wildlife habitat improvement projects on wildlife management areas throughout the state, through the Heritage Enhancement Grants to Local Outdoors Clubs program...

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) invites the public to review and comment on lake management plans for nine Duluth-area lakes by July 31. Lake management plans, which are prepared or revised for several lakes each year in each management area, describe the past, present and desired future conditions of lakes...

Five state parks, two military reservations, two refuges and a nature preserve will provide high-quality deer hunting for 490 young hunters this fall, according to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR). The deadline to apply for the Special Youth Deer Hunts is Friday, Aug. 15...

Minnesota’s life jacket laws changed 12 years ago and now require that owners of most boats 16 feet and longer, except canoes and kayaks, carry one U.S. Coast Guard approved, throwable flotation device on board in addition to every passenger having a readily accessible life jacket. But according to Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) boating safety officials, many people are ignoring the laws...

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) will identify several new spawning beds and fish preserves in the northern half of Minnesota and adjust the descriptions of several existing beds/preserves if proposed new rules are adopted by the department...

A recently completed tagging and recapture population estimate shows that Mille Lacs Lake walleye are healthy and able to support the sport fishing this popular central Minnesota lake offers...

In resent presidential news, Barack Obama and John McCain face ever increasing challenges in Minnesota as local Fishing Party candidate, Trout Whisperer, receives new endorsement...

CO Greg Oldakowski (Wadena, Minnesota) responded to a call of a man and his dog being surrounded by timber wolves. The pair was uninjured in the attack, yet the man stated the wolves followed him down the road while he was in his car. Upon investigating the area, the only canine found was a single longhaired, shepherd type dog, which was found within feet of the area where the alleged wolf attack had occurred. Click to read many more bizarre outdoor tales and true confessions...

There was a funeral today in a small church in a small town whose best days are gone yet every pew was filled with those who came to pay final respects to the man with the big farmer hands who died just a few days short of his 88th birthday...

In campaign news today, Washington  is reeling as the news of the unprecedented Trout Whisperer fishing challenge to Barack Obama and John McCain spreads across the country. Watch closely, at the end of this video, to see the abuse that our worthy Fishing Party candidate, Trout Whisperer, must take...

JustNorth.com endorsed presidential candidate, Trout Whisperer, challenges Barack Obama and John McCain to Fishing Contest...

View this video to learn more about JustNorth.com endorsed Presidential candidate, Trout Whisperer (Karl Seckinger from Two Harbors, Minnesota), who is running on the Fishing Party ticket against Barack Obama and John McCain ...

Over there, an older man, whiling away the afternoon weeding his garden. He’s retired, now, and has time on his hands. He thinks he might go fishing this evening...

There is a lady I know that will sit in the boat with her husband for hours on end and read or suntan. He always buys the combo platter resident fishing license just in case you know what freezes over and she might want to fish...

Over to his library he plucked a book. With a shaky hand he autographed a fly-tying book to me. What he wrote shouldn’t be read by the faint of heart. I watched him write it. Then he handed it to me, I read it then, so many years ago. I read it again last night...

After sixty seven straight days of fishing you can get tired. I don’t get tired of fishing, just tired. You fish so much you wear the skin off your index finger unhooking walleyes. The boat is still rocking and you have been in bed for twenty minutes. Close your eyes and the bobber is still floating there...