Yup - guns, outboard motors, chain saws, driving tractors in and out of tin buildings and all the other loud farm equipment I was around growing up... My left ear is more or less a decoration at this point. Rings all the time besides. Much more careful now but still probably not as careful as I shou...

The popular support for Donald is so overwhelming his campaign hired extras from a casting agency in New York and paid them $50 to show up and cheer at his announcement speech.

The one thing I will say in his favor given the above - at least he buys his support out in the open...

Fish cakes are good eats. Here's a recipe I use: Ingredients 11⁄2 lbs. fresh fish filets 11⁄4 c. mashed, cooked potatoes 2 eggs, beaten 2 tsp. salt 1 tsp. fresh pepper 1 bunch green onions, minced 1/4 tsp. ground cardamom 11⁄2 tsp. grated orange peel 1 tbsp. chopped fresh cilantro 2 tbsp. chopped f...

bow-fishhunter wrote:History shows they don't have much faith in sportsmen correctly identifying the game they're after.

Only during the first two weeks of September... Any other time it's all good.

Re: the limit on small pike... Limits are one thing. Angler behavior is another. Anglers are incredibly size-selective when it come to pike. Fact is, most anglers just won't keep pike smaller than 22" or so. I'm as Norwegian as they get, and even I can only eat so many pickled pike. On most lak...

Here's a link to a more thorough description of the proposal, and the management objectives/considerations behind them...

http://files.dnr.state.mn.us/fish_wildlife/presentations/nopz/

I could go on for pages with as much time as I've spent wrangling, arguing, and writing about pike management the last decade or so.. Couple thoughts though (and I'll spare you the rest). This proposal is a very huge step in the right direction. I agree that if the purpose were purely to address the...

I've spent more time at the legislature than I care to, although I wasn't down there a lot this session. Talking to some who were though, I had a couple tell me they'd been covering the legislature form the outdoors angle for 20 years, and this was as screwed up as they'd ever seen it. Dayton did ve...

I asked a CO about this once, in regards to guys 'pike fishing' on muskie lakes with 10" jerkbaits and giant bucktails. He said it's like the Supreme Court's definition of pornography - 'I can't define it, but I know it when I see it.' Guys fishing muskies early are probably the worst for this ...

Big Doe Hunter wrote:This is from 2013. Any new news on this?

The latest: http://www.startribune.com/local/291411221.html

Sad deal.