A mix of outdoors stories from Minnesota, including information on the stocking of trout in Hiniker Pond near Mankato.

3/20: Jeff Makela, of Superior, caught this 28-inch native brown trout from a small spring pond in Bayfield County. It was caught July 19, 2025, after a morning rain storm. "I hope to share the story ...

Wednesday was a cold, cloudy, and slightly windy morning on Lake Superior. But charter captain Ethan Waytashek left the Twin Points public boat ramp confident he and his client Isaiah Bartlett were ...

FORESTVILLE — The Root River riffled clear over rocks, the wind was tolerable last Saturday on the opening day of the regular trout fishing season in Forestville/Mystery Cave State Park, one of the ...

Steady and sometimes pounding rains in June made the vast majority of southeast Minnesota trout streams unfishable at times for anyone packing a fly rod, but the state’s fisheries supervisor in ...

A southeastern Minnesota stream reflects brilliantly colored leaves in fall – until the splash of a trout on the end of an angler’s line breaks the surface. Anglers can enjoy scenes like these now ...

Acting on a tip, Duluth fisheries biologists launched their boat into Lake Superior last fall and motored to a hidden corner of the Minnesota shoreline. There, they dipped the boat’s electrofishing ...

For years, I’ve tried to be extra careful if fishing trout on hot summer days, to be on the stream around sunrise and leaving when the water temperature reaches the mid-60s. I was confident, almost ...

A popular fish near Duluth has seen its numbers decline dramatically over the past decade. Steelhead are a type of rainbow trout that head to the Knife River to spawn. But fewer and fewer have been ...