Doug Smith
Reporter | Outdoors
Phone: 612-673-7667
E-mail: dsmith@startribune.com
Doug Smith covers outdoors issues and writes about hunting and fishing.
Recent content from Doug Smith
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Love for the dove
Shooting at doves can be difficult given the elusiveness of the targets -- but you will be rewarded for your efforts if you can hit one.
Sep 7, 2008 -
High hopes for better grouse days
Minnesota's ruffed grouse season opens Saturday amid high hopes that hunting will be better than last year.
Sep 7, 2008 -
Pheasant numbers to be released soon
Minnesota's 125,000 or so pheasant hunters should get a good idea next week what to expect this fall.
Aug 31, 2008 -
Muskie legend faces biggest battle
George Wahl has cancer that has spread throughout his body, and the prognosis isn't good for the longtime muskie fishing advocate.
Aug 31, 2008 -
Muskies won't be stocked in Gull Lake
But muskies will be stocked in Pokegama Lake near Grand Rapids as part of a new long-range muskie management plan the DNR has adopted.
Aug 24, 2008 -
$1 million payday is no fantasy for St. Michael man
Michael Thompson proved the best at predicting the winners of seven professional fishing tournaments held throughout the country.
Aug 22, 2008 -
Detroit Lakes pig on run was not wild boar
On closer inspection (after it was killed), officials saw that the "boar" roaming the woods was a pot-bellied pig, probably someone's pet.
Aug 21, 2008 -
Earlier: Hunt is on for Detroit Lakes wild boar
Non-native species like the European wild boar spotted near Detroit Lakes can multiply rapidly, spread diseases to wild and domestic animals and are destructive to the landscape.
Aug 20, 2008 -
Quetico Provincial Park: Paddling in paradise
Quetico Provincial Park in Ontario is a little more difficult to reach and get around in than its United States counterpart, the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, but it's a journey well worth making, to experience the area's beauty and serenity.
Aug 17, 2008 -
Fishing license sales fall despite state's campaign
Minnesota launched an ambitious advertising campaign last spring to try to stem the shrinking percentage of Minnesotans who fish.
Jul 27, 2008
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