
Open Season: Follow the catfish food chain
Fishing is as simple or complicated as a person makes it. In its most basic form, willing a creature to ingest a dangling bait can mean nothing more than the proverbial hook, line and sinker.

Fishing is as simple or complicated as a person makes it. In its most basic form, willing a creature to ingest a dangling bait can mean nothing more than the proverbial hook, line and sinker.

This week while walking in a rich patch of vernal ephemerals at Jay Cooke State Park, I found about twenty kinds in bloom.

On page 77 of the 2012 Minnesota fishing handbook there is a graph that can give an angler the approximate weight of a fish based on the fish’s length.