Upper Red Lake Fishing Reports - MN Lakes by Fishing Guides, Minnesota Resorts and Members. If you can't find what you are looking for below, #1 - Become a member and ask for a fishing report, then please be sure to check out the Minnesota Fishing & Hunting forums. [wp-rss-aggregator source="8323"] Visit the Upper Red Lake fishing reports Community for even more info. Click Here... Upper Red Lake fishing reports are provided by fishing guides, area resorts, local residents and visitors fishing the Waskish area. If you use the fishing reports above, consider sharing your Upper Red Lake fishing reports and help others out with first hand experiences to make their fishing trips more fun and productive. Perhaps, in turn, they will be like you and give their fishing reports ... [ Read More ]
Lake Vermilion, Pelican Lake, Ely, Hibbing Fishing Reports
Vermilion, Pelican Lake, Ely, Hibbing Fishing Reports - MN Lake by Fishing Guides, Minnesota Resorts and Members. If you can't find what you are looking for below, #1 - Become a member and ask for a fishing report, then please be sure to check out the Minnesota Fishing & Hunting forums. [wp-rss-aggregator source="8312"] Visit the Lake Vermilion, Pelican Lake, Ely, Hibbing fishing reports Community for even more info. Click Here... Lake Vermilion, Pelican Lake, Ely, Hibbing fishing reports are provided by fishing guides, area resorts, local residents and visitors fishing the lakes in the Iron Range area. If you use the fishing reports above, consider sharing your Lake Vermilion, Pelican Lake, Chisholm, Cook, Ely, Eveleth, Hibbing, Orr, Virginia fishing reports and help ... [ Read More ]
Lake Winnibigoshish Fishing Reports
Lake Winnibigoshish Fishing Reports - MN Lakes by Fishing Guides, Minnesota Resorts and Members. If you can't find what you are looking for below, #1 - Become a member and ask for a fishing report, then please be sure to check out the Minnesota Fishing & Hunting forums. [wp-rss-aggregator source="8301"] Visit the Lake Winnibigoshish fishing reports Community for even more info. Click Here... Lake Winnibigoshish fishing reports are provided by fishing guides, area resorts, local residents and visitors fishing the lakes in the Alex area. If you use the fishing reports above, consider sharing your Lake Winnibigoshish fishing reports and help others out with first hand experiences to make their fishing trips more fun and productive. Perhaps, in turn, they will be like you and ... [ Read More ]
Willmar-Spicer Fishing Reports
Willmar-Spicer Fishing Reports - MN Lakes by Fishing Guides, Minnesota Resorts and Members. If you can't find what you are looking for below, #1 - Become a member and ask for a fishing report, then please be sure to check out the Minnesota Fishing & Hunting forums. [wp-rss-aggregator source="8290"] Visit the Willmar-Spicer fishing reports Community for even more info. Click Here... Willmar-Spicer fishing reports are provided by fishing guides, area resorts, local residents and visitors fishing the lakes in the Alex area. If you use the fishing reports above, consider sharing your Willmar-Spicer fishing reports and help others out with first hand experiences to make their fishing trips more fun and productive. Perhaps, in turn, they will be like you and give their fishing ... [ Read More ]
New rules for Mille Lacs bass could attract more tournament action
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources today announced a change in fishing regulations that could see more Mille Lacs bass tournaments coming to the area. The rule change, announced today by DNR Commissioner Tom Landwehr, will allow anglers to sort bass that are shorter than 18 inches, and keep the largest fish – a rule change that is essential in securing national bass tournaments. Anglers on other lakes in Minnesota already can sort bass that they catch. But currently, anglers on Mille Lacs Lake cannot sort fish they have kept by releasing a smaller fish from a livewell and replacing it with a larger fish. The rule change announced today will allow anglers to sort smallmouth and largemouth bass before reaching their possession limit of six fish. The no-cull rule will remain ... [ Read More ]
Kabetogama-Namakan Fishing Report
Kabetogama-Namakan fishing report; what's where and how to catch it. Wind set the pace for anglers this past week, and some thought it was too much of a good thing. Windblown shorelines were good to anglers that could manage boat control and stay in the 10-15’ depth as baitfish get directed into those shorelines, which usually leads to good fishing. If the wind dies down at anytime, or the following day, concentrate your efforts accordingly for great results. A suggested method of fishing while the winds are blowing is to troll artificial lures at depths between 12-16’, or use lead line and troll deeper waters. All fish species relate well to this, and boat control isn’t as critical. The walleye bite remains very scattered; there are reports of anglers catching fish on all ... [ Read More ]
Minnesota Northern Pike Problems: You Can Still Comment
In hopes of improving northern pike fishing, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources wants to expand the dialogue with anglers and darkhouse spearers about the northern pike problem in Minnesota. So what's the problem? Well, there isn't just one problem – or one solution – because pike populations differ in various regions of the state. In the northeast, pike are present in relatively low numbers and at relatively large sizes. They reproduce naturally. Although they grow slowly, they can grow quite large because relatively few anglers scatter limited fishing pressure across a large number of lakes. In southern Minnesota, pike are less abundant and don't reproduce as well as in the north. Southern Minnesota has high fishing pressure and a high harvest rate relative to the ... [ Read More ]
Minnesota DNR praises new aquatic invasive species law
The Minnesota DNR aquatic invasive species (AIS) training and trailer decal program, which was due to launch this year, was repealed by the Minnesota Legislature during its recently completed special session. In its place, the Legislature added an AIS affirmation provision to some licenses. The affirmation will be added to new watercraft and nonresident fishing licenses beginning in 2016, so no immediate actions are required under the new law. Starting in 2016, all newly issued watercraft licenses will have an AIS affirmation section. All nonresident fishing licenses will also include the AIS affirmation section beginning in March 2016. License applicants after these dates will receive a summary of AIS laws and will be required to affirm that they have read and understand the summary in ... [ Read More ]
Fish stocking improves Minnesota walleye waters
Anglers in the area are never far from a lake where they can catch Minnesota walleye; fish stocking keeps it that way. Stocking Minnesota walleye involves taking eggs from waters that have reproducing walleye populations and releasing newly hatched fry or small Minnesota walleye fingerlings into lakes that don’t have reproducing populations. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources pays for its stocking effort with fishing license and Minnesota walleye stamp dollars. This year, the process started April 8 in the Pike River near Tower, used eight egg-take sites and ended April 26 in Fergus Falls. Here’s a snapshot of the stocking stats: 2015 stocking effort Eggs taken: 4,655 quarts of eggs, or 582 million eggs, close to the 10-year average. 2015 stocking plan: 286 ... [ Read More ]
Waterfowl serve as reservoirs for avian influenza
“We know that waterfowl serve as reservoirs for avian influenza because they contract the virus, but normally are not killed by it. However, what we don’t know is what role wildlife may have played in recent infections in domestic poultry,” said Lou Cornicelli, DNR wildlife research manager. “We’re continuing to take a science-based approach to testing so we can obtain meaningful results.” To help identify wildlife’s role in the disease, DNR researchers conducted an initial three-pronged surveillance effort beginning as soon as the disease was discovered in the state’s domestic turkeys in March. Researchers: Collected more than 3,000 fecal samples from wild waterfowl in a statistically designed surveillance effort. Of those, half were collected from around infected facilities and ... [ Read More ]