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By Gary Korsgaden /For the Enterprise Lakes with cisco populations are a needed food source, as a forage base to produce trophy sized walleye, northern pike and muskies. Ciscoes congregate during the fall in the shallows to spawn. Fall cisco spawning activity triggers “big game...

By Sarah Smith ssmith@parkrapidsenterprise.com A nationwide ammunition shortage could challenge north woods hunters this deer season. It began about two years ago, said Hendri Ernst, general manager of Smokey Hills Outdoor Store in Park Rapids. Gun owners began stockpiling ammunition,...

The DNR has capitulated to growing requests to meet with residents of Big Sand Lake over a proposed public access project on Grouse Road. The meeting was scheduled for 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 26 at the Lake Emma Township Hall. DNR officials had declined a public...

By Sarah Smith and Anna Erickson PARK RAPIDS ENTERPRISE Nearly 400 cyclists braved cold driving rains Saturday as the Headwaters 100 event...

BY Sarah smith ssmith@parkrapidsenterprise.com Tis the season. You better watch out, you better not cry. Not fat guys in red suits. Deer,...

Started as a simple live-bait rig, it now comes in countless forms and can be trolled with just about any system. Consider it a live bait rig...

Gov. Mark Dayton caught his first walleye at 12:25 a.m., according to Jason Durham on his Facebook page. The Governor addressed Park Rapids Friday afternoon at the community picnic downtown and said he hoped he wouldn't disgrace the state by not catching a fish. He didn't...

By Jason Durham / For the Enterprise - Last weekend Al Maas of Walker was officially inducted into the National Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame....

By Crystal Dey / Alexandria Echo Press - ALEXANDRIA— A lot of questionable decisions were made in the 1960s. Was introducing the antibacterial agent triclosan one of them? The antimicrobial ingredient was first used decades ago in Dial soap and pesticides. It can now be found in...

BY Sarah smith ssmith@parkrapidsenterprise.com Big Mantrap Lake narrowly escaped being contaminated – twice – in 2012, according to a new report compiled by Hubbard County’s watercraft inspectors. The county’s premier pristine lake was saved from Eurasian water milfoil...

A routine patrol by three conservation officers (CO) with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources netted three Wisconsin men nearly $3,300 in fines, restitution, and court costs for an overlimit of perch. CO’s Luke Belgard, Mike Fairbanks, and Jayson Hansen were working ice...

By Pippi Mayfield / DL Online - Most people in this area have biked, walked, snowmobiled or at least heard of the Heartland Trail. There are...