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Best times for anglers
(Table for Sept. 15-Sept. 29)
This table lists top fishing times and days for the coming weeks. For best results, begin fishing one hour before and continue one hour after the times given. Times apply to all time zones.
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Sunday………….............10:05 p.m........……….....................................................10:...Read more
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Dennis Anderson: For these Minnesota women, bird hunting wouldn't be sporting without their dogs
MINNEAPOLIS — Last year the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources sold 230,000 resident small-game licenses, fewer than 10% of which were issued to women.
Only a small minority of Minnesota women chase ducks, pheasants, grouse and woodcock, in part because deer hunting has replaced small game hunting as the state’s entry-level field ...Read more
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Lurking in Lake Erie: At least 145 invasive species documented at Presque Isle
PITTSBURGH — Lurking in the steel blue waters of Lake Erie and its marshes, a green mat of vegetation suffocates native plants with its fast-growing layers of tangled fiber.
Some fish swim the other way.
The more than 4 million annual visitors to Presque Isle State Park don't see the underwater battle waged against starry stonewort, an ...Read more
Best times for anglers
(Table for Sept. 8-Sept. 22)
This table lists top fishing times and days for the coming weeks. For best results, begin fishing one hour before and continue one hour after the times given. Times apply to all time zones.
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Sunday………................3:40 p.m.....………………….....................................................Read more
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Dennis Anderson: Telling female and male mallards apart in September is a tough problem for hunters to duck in Minnesota
MINNEAPOLIS — The hens aren’t coming home to roost, and something’s going to have to change.
Beginning in Minnesota.
The hens in this case are mallards, specifically adult hen mallards, and their absence on the breeding grounds, including in Minnesota, the Dakotas and prairie Canada, means trouble for duck hunters and duck hunting.
It�...Read more
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You're now allowed to bag walleyes on Mille Lacs. But can you catch them?
ISLE, Minn. — Two weeks after the state Department of Natural Resources loosened walleye regulations on Mille Lacs Lake to establish a welcomed two-fish bag limit, anglers are struggling to take advantage.
The trick is this: When the bag limit was zero, the fishing was pretty good. Now that it’s legal to catch and keep two of the fish, the ...Read more
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Dennis Anderson: If everyone needs exposure to nature, why aren't some metro kids getting their share?
MINNEAPOLIS — News item: Shooting of four children, ages 11 to 13, at 1 a.m. in a stolen car raises familiar alarm in Minneapolis. Police recover 30 shell casings from what they say was a fully automatic weapon.
Nothing about the events described above should be considered normal, Thurman Tucker says. Not now or ever.
Kids who are barely in ...Read more
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A pioneer in outdoor navigation turns to Minnesota for fishing smarts
MINNEAPOLIS — A Montana company that sells digital navigation apps to hunters, off-roaders and backcountry hikers has turned to Minnesota anglers to help develop apps for both trout streams and freshwater lakes.
OnX Maps, best known for its GPS-driven hunting app, acquired Twin Cities-based TroutRoutes this year at about the same time it ...Read more
Best times for anglers
(Table for Sept. 1-Sept. 15)
This table lists top fishing times and days for the coming weeks. For best results, begin fishing one hour before and continue one hour after the times given. Times apply to all time zones.
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Sunday.…....................10:55 a.m.....………………….……..............................................Read more
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Dennis Anderson: Minnesota wildlife artist Bob Hautman captures the world in broad strokes
MINNEAPOLIS — The other day Bob Hautman turned on one light, then another, curious whether the change in luminescence affected the mien, or appearance, of the ducks he was painting.
This was at the farm-turned-wildlife mecca west of the Twin Cities that Hautman shares with his wife, the artist Dodie Logue, and Hautman was putting the ...Read more
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Camp Ripley's expanded deer hunt is one of the changes ahead for Minnesota hunters, trappers
MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota’s earliest hunting seasons open on a Sunday this year, and the state’s annual harvest of wild game will be subject to an assortment of new regulations.
Spelled out by the Department of Natural Resources in the hunting and trapping rules handbook, here’s a breakdown of notable changes.
On Sept. 1, bear season ...Read more
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Dennis Anderson: Group aims to get mobility-challenged Minnesotans outdoors
MINNEAPOLIS — Darren Dorn was 18 years old and driving his pickup to his home just north of Minneapolis when he swerved to avoid hitting a deer.
That was the end of the first part of his life, and the beginning of the second.
Now 40 years old, Dorn, who works in sales for a lumber company, was at Game Fair in Ramsey.
In a wheelchair since ...Read more
Best times for anglers
(Table for Aug. 25-Sept. 8)
This table lists top fishing times and days for the coming weeks. For best results, begin fishing one hour before and continue one hour after the times given. Times apply to all time zones.
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Sunday…………..............4:40 a.m........……….........................................................5:...Read more
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Florida environmentalists cry foul over wildlife foundation donation to pro-hunting measure
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — When longtime environmentalist Chuck O’Neal first bought a wildlife conservation license plate, he thought the extra $25 he paid yearly was going to an organization dedicated to preserving Florida wildlife, especially its dwindling black bear population.
So it seemed like a betrayal to O’Neal when he discovered that ...Read more
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Beyond his flannel shirt and camo hat, Tim Walz has made his mark in the politics of fish and game
MINNEAPOLIS — Long before Gov. Tim Walz was introduced to national audiences as a hunter and outdoorsman, he broke through in Washington as an up-and-coming trap shooter in a small circle of his congressional colleagues who could handle a shotgun.
Former House Agriculture Committee Chair Collin Peterson, who represented Minnesota’s Seventh ...Read more
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Dennis Anderson: Alaska's summer drama: Salmon, bears and lessons in life and death
WRANGELL, Alaska — The nation’s largest national forest, the Tongass, blankets 17 million acres of southeast Alaska, in which everything is connected to everything else, with salmon the centerpiece.
This was apparent on a recent day as four of us motored up a bay of Alaska’s Inside Passage, watching bald eagles carve circles in a cobalt ...Read more
Best times for anglers
(Table for Aug. 18-Sept. 1)
This table lists top fishing times and days for the coming weeks. For best results, begin fishing one hour before and continue one hour after the times given. Times apply to all time zones.
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Sunday………................11:25 p.m.....…………………................................................11...Read more
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Minnesota will auction guns, crossbows, fishing rods, deer mounts seized from scofflaws
MINNEAPOLIS — Secondhand crossbow, anyone? Shotgun and scope? Deer skull on a mount?
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is again putting up for auction firearms, archery bows, fishing gear and other outdoor items confiscated from hunting and fishing scofflaws. The two upcoming auctions are certain to draw masses — 58,500 people ...Read more
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Dennis Anderson: On a small boat, big fish, scenery and wildlife of Alaska's Inside Passage come alive
PETERSBURG, ALASKA — A few days back, Terry Arnesen throttled up the two outboards that swung from the transom of his boat as he angled his home-away-from-home out of this town’s harbor of mostly commercial fishing boats, many of which had seen better days.
Terry’s watercraft wasn’t a “Deadliest Catch”-size trawler, but a 26-foot ...Read more
Best times for anglers
(Table for Aug. 11-Aug. 25)
This table lists top fishing times and days for the coming weeks. For best results, begin fishing one hour before and continue one hour after the times given. Times apply to all time zones.
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Sunday.…....................5:00 p.m.....………………….……................................................Read more
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