John Crane with an early-ice walleye that ate a Tikka Mino during the 2020 winter fishing season.
Contributed photo

Northland Outdoors 8:01 am, Nov. 19, 2021

Frisch: Keys to getting on early-ice walleyes

Minnesota fishing guide Mike Frisch lays out his strategy for getting the most out of what can be the best ice fishing of the season for walleyes during the first safe ice of the winter.

A brook trout from Lawndale Creek near Barnesville, Minn. Minnesota DNR photo

Northland Outdoors 7:00 pm, Nov. 18, 2021

Among the gloom of Minnesota water pollution, a glimmer in the Red River Valley

Eric Morken with a North Dakota buck he shot with his bow on a morning hunt on Nov. 2, 2021. Morken took a kayak up a river to avoid accessing on this field edge before this buck came through at approximately 8:20 a.m. and offered a shot.
Contributed photo by Gary Morken

Northland Outdoors 6:30 pm, Nov. 18, 2021

Morken: Taking a chance years ago pays off with another bow buck in North Dakota

Northland Outdoors 10:00 am, Nov. 18, 2021

Northland Outdoors Forecast: Light winds Saturday with a breeze picking up Sunday

Northland Outdoors 6:30 pm, Nov. 17, 2021

The efforts involved in a snow geese hunt in North Dakota

Two sea lamprey can be seen attached to this lake trout. November marks the 100th anniversary of Atlantic sea lamprey entering the Great Lakes. Lamprey are still killing fish in Lake Superior, but thanks to annual control efforts, not at nearly the rate they were a half-century ago.
Contributed / Great Lakes Fishery Commission

Northland Outdoors 7:00 pm, Nov. 16, 2021

Infamous anniversary: 100 years of sea lamprey in the Great Lakes

A deer is spotted along St. Onge Drive Northeast during the Ward 5 deer survey on Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021. (Annalise Braught / Bemidji Pioneer)

Northland Outdoors 12:00 am, Nov. 15, 2021

College students participate in annual city-wide deer surveys

Ivy the dog follows a scent that trail owner Chris Neutz laid down on his rural Esko property Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2021. Neutz has trained Ivy to track wounded deer. They are the only team listed on Minnesota Tracking Dogs for Northeastern Minnesota after lawmakers in 2019 moved to allow the use of deer tracking dogs.
Steve Kuchera / Duluth News Tribune

Northland Outdoors 7:00 pm, Nov. 13, 2021

Lose your deer? Call in the deer-tracking dogs

“Lucky I took the key out, because it looks like she wanted to tip it over or take it out for a ride,” Byron Eilertson joked about the cow moose that walked up to check out his ATV. “This is a first for me.” Contributed / Byron Eilertson

Northland Outdoors 10:00 am, Nov. 13, 2021

Dokken column: Curious moose overshadows excitement of Minnesota deer season opener

A federal judge in Califonria heard arguments Friday, Nov. 12, 2021, on why wolves should have Endangered Species Act protections restored.
Contributed / International Wolf Center

Northland Outdoors 3:57 pm, Nov. 12, 2021

Federal wolf lawsuit gets hearing in California

The 72 walleyes and saugers were confiscated Sunday, Nov. 7, 2021, and donated to the Warroad Senior Living Center in Warroad, Minnesota, for residents' consumption. Contributed / Minnesota DNR

Northland Outdoors 11:39 am, Nov. 12, 2021

DNR officers seize 72 fish in Lake of the Woods walleye and sauger bust

A nice whitetail buck bedded down. Through opening weekend of the Minnesota 2021 firearms deer hunting season, hunters registered 58,370 deer, down 11% from 2020.
John Myers / 2020 file / Duluth News Tribune

Northland Outdoors 9:00 am, Nov. 12, 2021

Opening weekend deer harvest, license sales down from 2020 in Minnesota

Contributed / Kim Lapinoja

Northland Outdoors 12:15 pm, Nov. 11, 2021

Big buck bagged opening night

Northland Outdoors 10:00 am, Nov. 11, 2021

Northland Outdoors Forecast: Chance of light snow again this weekend

Jim Slocum, owner of Slocum Taxidermy in Reading, holds up one of the white-tail shoulder mounts he did for a customer this fall. Julie Buntjer/The Globe

Northland Outdoors 6:00 pm, Nov. 10, 2021

Intrigue for wildlife led southern Minnesota man to career in taxidermy

Dave Saline of Maple Grove shot this 8-point buck from 113 yards. He was the only hunter in his party to get a deer on opening weekend.

Northland Outdoors 8:28 am, Nov. 9, 2021

Deer opener a mixed bag in Hubbard County

Kelly Staka is the new wildlife section manager for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. A wildlife veterinarian, Staka worked with the DNR's shallow lakes program in Willmar early in her career. Photo courtesy of Kelly Straka.

Northland Outdoors 10:00 am, Nov. 7, 2021

Minnesota deer hunters go afield with optimism, and for good reason

The sun sets over the Red River in Manitoba near Lake Winnipeg on Nov. 14, 2015, a gorgeous fall day when the walleyes were biting and sunset came much too early. Brad Dokken / Grand Forks Herald

Northland Outdoors 6:00 pm, Nov. 6, 2021

Dokken: 'Bonus' November days are made for fishing – even during deer season

Beryl Novak grouse hunts near his home Monday, Nov. 1, 2021. On Saturday, as he has for more than 60 years, he’ll be deer hunting.
Steve Kuchera / Duluth News Tribune

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Northland Outdoors 7:00 pm, Nov. 5, 2021

Beryl Novak has lived alone in his one-room deer shack for 44 years. That's the way he likes it

Minnesota recorded no firearms-related hunter deaths during the 2019 and 2020 hunting seasons, a trend partially attributed to the use of high-visibility blaze orange and, more recently, blaze-pink clothing.
Derek Montgomery / 2009 file / Duluth News Tribune

Northland Outdoors 12:00 pm, Nov. 5, 2021

Will Minnesota's string of safer hunting continue in 2021?

Northland Outdoors 6:35 pm, Nov. 4, 2021

Successful fishing experiments that are working this fall

Northland Outdoors 10:00 am, Nov. 4, 2021

Northland Outdoors Forecast: Warm for ND and MN deer opener

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Northland Outdoors 3:49 pm, Nov. 3, 2021

CWD suspected in wild deer shot southwest of Climax, Minnesota, DNR says

File photo / Forum News Service

Coronavirus 5:28 pm, Nov. 2, 2021

Iowa study finds humans gave COVID-19 to deer

Winter ice fishing walleye regulations have been set for Mille Lacs Lake and Upper Red Lake.
Sam Cook / 2009 file / Duluth News Tribune

Northland Outdoors 3:22 pm, Nov. 2, 2021

Mille Lacs, Red Lake winter walleye regulations set

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