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Our Outdoors: Holes in the Water
Wedged into the narrow corner under the removable jumpseat in the big boat which had just come out of storage this weekend, I struggled...
North Dakota Wildlife Federation
Apr 21, 20204 min read


A Bird Would Be A Bonus
When the alarm went off, I had already been awake for 15 minutes. I easily popped out of my bed in the back of my 4Runner and started...
North Dakota Wildlife Federation
Apr 20, 20203 min read


Lessons Learned, Licensing Changed in ND Due to ANS Detection
With the detection in 2019 of zebra mussels in Lake Ashtabula - a 5,000-acre impoundment stretching for more than 12 miles north of...
North Dakota Wildlife Federation
Apr 20, 20205 min read


Feeling Out Spring Walleye
Spring walleyes - especially those river fish that offer up some of the season’s first opportunities as ice takes its time peeling off...
North Dakota Wildlife Federation
Apr 10, 20204 min read


Flatlining Crappies
While crappies aren’t known for adrenaline-inducing strikes or heart-pounding battles, they’re often some of the earliest angling...
North Dakota Wildlife Federation
Apr 8, 20203 min read


Tackle Tips for Netting More Northerns
In the crystal-clear bays after the last of the gray ice has disappeared, they lurk on the edge of visibility. In the running creeks,...
North Dakota Wildlife Federation
Apr 1, 20203 min read


Easter Eggs
Whether fishing for trout making their spring sprint up tiny coldwater streams or going after those species that get stocked in any...
North Dakota Wildlife Federation
Mar 30, 20204 min read


Egg Sucking Leech
Growing up a wrestling fan, there was no better time to be watching WWF (now WWE) than when Triple H and Degeneration X were the featured...
North Dakota Wildlife Federation
Mar 30, 20203 min read


Wardens Set for Different Spring
With the impact of the coronavirus obvious across many layers of society, the North Dakota Game & Fish Department (NDG&F) has not been...
North Dakota Wildlife Federation
Mar 30, 20203 min read


Our Outdoors: Simple Fishing
In the last two weeks I have become a full-time teacher, cook, gym instructor and referee in addition to my normal professions, which...
North Dakota Wildlife Federation
Mar 30, 20204 min read
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