West Fargo Pioneer Thursday, July 24, 2008


Outdoors

Spring sharptails look good

07/24/2008 12:00 AM
Statistics from the 2008 spring sharp-tailed grouse census indicate an increase in the number of male grouse counted compared to last year.

Space available for BOW

07/17/2008 12:00 AM
Registrations are being accepted for women interested in attending the Becoming an Outdoors-Woman workshop, held Aug. 8-10 at Lake Metigoshe State Park near Bottineau. The cost is $135 for those 18 years or older with an Aug. 1 registration deadline.
A thunder cloud above Lake Mille Lacs doesn’t discourage these launch anglers from a night of fishing. Walleye fishing has been generally good on Lake Mille Lacs, improving as weather stabilizes.

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Magic Waters

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Early last century, when roads leading here from the Twin Cities were little more than ruts, and no one owned a car that could pull a trailer, “boat trains” snaked onto this big lake, two anglers to each rented craft, one boat tied to the next, the lot of them towed by a lead boat that was powered by a vintage, sputtering outboard.
A thunder cloud above Lake Mille Lacs doesn’t discourage these launch anglers from a night of fishing. Walleye fishing has been generally good on Lake Mille Lacs, improving as weather stabilizes.

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Guide seeks northerns on Upper Red Lake

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Walleye action was beginning to slow from the torrid pace anglers had experienced since the May 10 fishing opener, but Upper Red Lake still was kicking out fish at a pretty good clip for late June, Tyler Brasel said. That would turn out to be an understatement.
Lightning
Tom Challey of West Fargo photographed this lightning Thursday, July 10, at about 10 p.m. near West Fargo. “It was a beautiful night and the sun had just gone down and then the storm rolled in,” Challey wrote. “I was able to capture this huge stream of lightning in our backyard. It seemed like it was only 1,000 yards away.”

Sharptail numbers look good

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Statistics from the 2008 North Dakota spring sharp-tailed grouse census indicate an increase in the number of male grouse counted compared to last year.
Fishing guide Mark Bry sets the hook on yet another walleye while fishing on the eastern side of Devils Lake.

Photos by Brad Dokken / Grand Forks Herald

Thrill of the ‘thunk’

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DEVILS LAKE, N.D. – Mark Bry had made maybe two casts with his jig when he felt the tell-tale “thunk” that gets every walleye angler’s heart pumping a few beats faster.

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A bicycler heads east on the 
Heartland State Trail, a 49-mile 
paved trail in Minnesota that runs 
from Park Rapids to Cass Lake. 
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A bicycler

Birdging the gap

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Minnesota DNR unveils its challenging plan to connect the paved Heartland State Trail with Fargo-Moorhead
A family from Fargo braved the traffic on Minnesota’s Highway 10 and bicycled 19 miles to Buffalo River State Park to do some camping.

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Kumiko Dahl of Crookston, Minn., photographed these 
two house finches this spring. “I put a half orange out 
for an oriole in our back yard,” Dahl wrote. “But instead 
of the oriole, house finches come and eat the orange.”
Kumiko Dahl

Photo of the week

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Kumiko Dahl of Crookston, Minn., photographed these two house finches this spring. “I put a half orange out for an oriole in our back yard,” Dahl wrote. “But instead of the oriole, house finches come and eat the orange.”

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Pheasant harvest highest in 60 years

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North Dakota’s pheasant harvest in 2007 was the highest in more than 60 years, according to statistics released by the North Dakota State Game and Fish Department.

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