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Best times for anglers

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(Table for Oct. 20-Nov. 3)

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……….................2:05 a.m.....………………….................................................2:...Read more

Anthony Souffle/The Minnesota Star Tribune/TNS

Dennis Anderson: Dogs revel in Minnesota pheasant opener, finding birds, while bringing their humans along

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MINNEAPOLIS — From small Munsterlanders to English setters and Labrador retrievers, a veritable kennel’s worth of dogs scampered across southern Minnesota Saturday, the opening day of the state’s pheasant season.

Proud and always hopeful that a bird or two might be put to wing by the canines, the animals’ human partners followed in tow....Read more

Richard Tsong-Taatariii/The Minnesota Star Tribune/TNS

A dwindling Minnesota fishing fleet chases the historic herring boom on Lake Superior

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HOVLAND, Minn. — They slipped the boat into Lake Superior just before first light. The lake lapped in quiet rhythm on the shore. The sky was clear and the air finally had a bit of a chill. It looked like a promising morning for Eric Brisson and Tyler Smith.

Two of Minnesota’s last commercial fishermen, Brisson and Smith are in their mid-30s...Read more

Glen Stubbe/The Minnesota Star Tribune/TNS

Minnesota hunters take aim at program allowing farmers to shoot large numbers of deer

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MINNEAPOLIS — Deer hunters in western Big Stone County know they’ll be restricted this fall to harvesting a single buck. To bag a second deer, they’d have to win a lottery that offers 38% fewer antlerless tags than a year ago.

So, avid hunters like Ed Vollmer and Bruce Nelson, of Ortonville, were incensed when they learned a number of gut...Read more

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Dennis Anderson: In Minnesota and everywhere, trees threaten grasslands and the pheasants they support

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MINNEAPOLIS — Cory Netland is a Department of Natural Resources area wildlife supervisor working out of New London, Minn. — not too far from where he grew up.

Like the state’s other 80,000 or so pheasant hunters, Netland is eagerly anticipating the Oct. 12 opening of the 2024 ringneck season.

And while Netland knows that wingshooters and...Read more

Brian Peterson/Minneapolis Star Tribune/TNS

Minnesota grouse hunting is back down to earth

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MINNEAPOLIS — One year after Minnesota grouse hunters enjoyed a phenomenal harvest, they’re settling in for a season that they can only hope will be fair to good.

“It seems like there are patches that are good, but there’s also patches that are as bad as we have seen in a while,” said Nate Huck, resident game bird consultant for the ...Read more

Dreamstime/Dreamstime/TNS

Summer walleye catches in Pennsylvania portion of Lake Erie were 2nd highest in more than 20 years

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PITTSBURGH — Anglers in Pennsylvania's portion of Lake Erie reported the second-highest walleye catch rates since 1993 for July and landed in the top five highest rates for August.

"This has been one of our better seasons," said Mark Haffley, the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission's leader for Lake Erie's research unit.

"These last seven ...Read more

Best times for anglers

Sports / Outdoors /

(Table for Oct. 13-Oct. 27)

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.…....................8:45 p.m.....………………….……............................................9...Read more

Brian Krista/Capital Gazette/Baltimore Sun/TNS

Dan Rodricks: A Chesapeake fishing captain's long love affair with the bay

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BALTIMORE — Somewhere in the vast Chesapeake Bay, there’s a fishing spot known as Ed’s Lump. It is believed to be the remnants of a giant oyster reef, rising from deep water to within 24 feet of the surface. It’s where Ed Darwin, longtime charter boat captain and one of the bay’s greatest lovers, believed his customers would catch fish...Read more

Best times for anglers

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(Table for Oct. 6-Oct. 20)

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…………..............2:25 p.m........……….........................................................2:...Read more

Dreamstime/Dreamstime/TNS

Hurricane Helene spawns mass migration of a half-billion birds

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PITTSBURGH — As millions of people braced for destruction in the path of Hurricane Helene in Florida and other southeastern states, half a billion migrating birds capitalized on the strong storms.

Using radar and weather data, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's BirdCast bird migration map documented more than half a billion birds migrating last...Read more

Ann Brucciani Lyo/The Minnesota Star Tribune/TNS

How much trash is under water in Mille Lacs? A scuba team looked into it.

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MINNEAPOLIS — There were fishing poles, cinder blocks, liquor bottles and golf balls in the tiny portion of Lake Mille Lacs that a scuba dive team sampled last week, but it was far less rubbish than they expected to find, the team’s leader said.

The preliminary and brief probe of the lake’s subsurface, paid for by a $67,000 grant from ...Read more