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JIM FUGLIE: View From The Prairie — No Shit, This Really Happened!

Old joke: What’s the difference between a bedtime story and a fishing story? A bedtime story starts, “Once upon a time …” A fishing story starts, “No shit, this really happened!” OK, so here we go. No shit, this really happened! It was a Pandemic Friday morning. Much like this morning, gray and dreary, and nothing on my calendar (imagine …


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KEVIN GRINDE: Rhythm Of The Trail — Red Lake Indian Reservation And Its Tasty Rainbow Trout

At 5 a.m. last weekend, our phone weather apps revealed the news: 13 below, a predicted a high of zero, plus a 20 mph blow. Perfect. We didn’t care as we headed east to the Red Lake Indian Reservation and a rendezvous with rainbow trout. Introductions I was the back seat passenger in a pickup with two friends, both named …


CHEF JEFF: One Byte At A Time — Wine-Poached Trout

It’s hard to convince some people who grew up with eating walleye that there are other species that come close to rivaling it in taste and texture. Growing up in northern Minnesota, I was one of those walleye snobs. That’s until a hometown friend, Steve Geatz, first took me to Bad Medicine Lake in Becker County, which is known for its great rainbow …