fishing

Lake of the Woods

Several years ago, I served on a committee the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources convened to tackle the issue of technology and its impact on fishing. Much of the discussion, as I recall, focused on whiz-bang electronics such as depth finders, underwater cameras and GPS maps...

January and February typically generate a few phone calls and emails from parents, teachers, school counselors and high school and college students about careers in the outdoors. I had a conversation with a counselor recently that might help answer some of those questions. The counselor...

Jim Kalkofen is a longtime outdoor communicator and 2008 inductee into the National Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame. Kalkofen, of Baxter, Minn., first fished Devils Lake in 1992 when he was executive director of the Professional Walleye Trail. Kalkofen, who recently founded the Target...