Rob Drieslein

1 week ago | outdoornews.com | Rob Drieslein

Minnesota blew the lid off its previous record spring wild turkey harvest last year, and the first half of 2025 has kept pace with 2024. My daughter, my dad, and I must’ve hit the midseason doldrums last weekend, however. Between a half-dozen sits, we heard one gobbler, and he was unimpressed with my calling. My daughter’s tag is good the entire season, and adults like me with unfilled tags may hunt season F from May 21 to May 31, so we’ll get out again.

3 weeks ago | outdoornews.com | Rob Drieslein

I spoke with Don Pereira last week, the former head of Minnesota DNR Fisheries. Pereira retired from the agency in 2018 then served as a commissioner on the Great Lakes Fishery Commission. He still chairs the group’s Sea Lamprey Control Board. Everyone know the sea lamprey story? The blood suckers are one of the nastiest aquatic invasive species ever.

3 weeks ago | outdoornews.com | Rob Drieslein

Southeast Minnesota-based outdoors writer and regular Outdoor News contributor Scott Bestul, age 64, died Saturday morning, April 19, after a 2.5-year battle with a gastrointestinal stromal tumor. Bestul’s outdoors writing focused on a number of topics including turkey hunting, stream trout, and muskie fishing, but he was best known for his white-tailed deer hunting expertise, especially in the bluff country of southeast Minnesota, western Wisconsin, and northeast Iowa.

1 month ago | outdoornews.com | Rob Drieslein

Jeff Broberg, 71, a clean water and trout fishing advocate and a giant on Minnesota’s conservation scene, died Saturday, April 12 from complications of pancreatic cancer. In a Facebook post on March 29, Broberg shared his cancer diagnosis and thanked friends and family for their prayers. He said he was waiting for more details from the Mayo Clinic and asked for time to process the news. The disease progressed quickly, however, and two weeks after the social media post, he passed.

1 month ago | outdoornews.com | Rob Drieslein

Back in 1997, Outdoor News columnist Shawn Perich wrote a piece about efforts by the Grand Portage Band to restore brook trout to Lake Superior tributaries. The piece included a photo of Rick Novitsky, the band’s then-natural resources director, holding a plastic bag containing “Brooks,” one of 26 young brook trout the band recently had discovered in a North Shore tributary stream.