MINNEAPOLIS — Mike Anderson perhaps could have been first chair in the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, playing clarinet or oboe or another of the reed instruments.

Instead, Anderson blows a duck call. He’s obsessed with it, really — the high balls and the feeding chuckles that can fool mallards and other wild fowl into thinking Anderson is ...Read more

TACOMA, Wash. — Recently, a jarring video hit the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Police Facebook page that shows an officer popping out of the dark on the Fox Island Pier in Pierce County and yelling, “You, come over here now! Police!”

It was like something out of an old episode of “Cops,” before the officer’s tone ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Thousands of fish died in Minnesota lakes and rivers earlier this summer during a five-day stretch of intense heat.

Fish kills are a natural occurrence in Minnesota, but the intense heat wave July 16-20 triggered an unusual wave of deaths across the state, even in lakes with good water quality, said Isaiah Tolo, fish health ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Walk into the Moccasin Bar in Hayward, Wis., and along with sipping a tall, cool one you can gawk at a mount of Cal Johnson’s record 1949 muskie. At 67 1/2 pounds and a tad longer than 60 inches, Old Cal’s memorable catch occurred on Lac Courte Oreilles near Hayward.

Not far from the Moccasin, at the Freshwater Fishing Hall ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Cooking up a shore lunch of freshly-caught walleye, bass or northern pike is a Minnesota tradition.

But because harmful mercury can be found in higher quantities in fish caught in northeastern Minnesota, the state’s Department of Health now has a special consumption limit.

This year, the state advised that kids and others in ...Read more