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SCOTT RALL Daily globe outdoors columnist It is only three weeks until the 2016 pheasant hunting opener. October 15, to be exact. The season as always opens at 9 a.m. and runs until sunset. Back in the day the season closed on or around the 23rd of December and the limit was two...

SCOTT RALL Daily Globe outdoors writer I get asked all the time, how long does it take each week to write your column? The answer is always the same. If I could type a lot better, about 20 minutes per week. All I have to do is look around to see what is happening in the outdoor...

SCOTT RALL Daily Globe outdoors columnist I was in the office the other day and got a call from a good friend of mine by the name of Scott Roemhildt. We met when he was a regional rep for Pheasants Forever. A few years back, he took a job with the Minnesota Department of Natural...

Scott Rall Daily Globe outdoors columnist Last week I covered a few of things you needed to do in order to get your hunting dog ready for the hunting season that will oh, so soon be upon us. But what kind of a season are you expecting? There are reports that the deer numbers look...

By Scott Rall Daily Globe outdoors columnist How is that when it is freezing cold outside all we can wish for is summer? Then when we get summer all we wish for is the fall hunting season and ice fishing. I guess humans always want what they do not currently have. I don't wish...

SCOTT RALL Daily Globe Outdoors columnist There are always two sides to every story. This is fact and cannot be changed. I was reading the paper a few days back and read the story about the issues that surround the now-closed Prairie View Golf Links public golf course in Worthington...

By Scott Rall Daily Globe outdoors columnist So what is in a plate? A license plate, I mean. More than you might think. Minnesota has more than five million cars registered in the state and every one of them needs some kind of license plate. I am most familiar with the natural...

By Scott Rall Daily Globe outdoors columnist Sometimes you just get an itch -- A hankerin’ to do something you have never done before. I had one of those hankerins a while back, and two weeks ago I scratched it. I was watching an outdoor TV show called “Due North Outdoors”...

SCOTT RALL Daily Globe outdoors writer Scott Rall is a dog guy. I have pretty much always been a dog guy. I had dogs growing up my entire life, but it was not until about 20 years ago that I really tried to get into owning a quality hunting dog. I had a few dogs after I got married...

Scott Rall Daily Globe outdoors columnist I got an interesting call the other day that turned out to be a very interesting outdoor experience. The call came from a contractor doing fish survey work for the Minnesota DNR. They have a research program that follows and monitors a...

Scott Rall Daily Globe outdoors writer Pound for pound a bluegill is the fightingest fish on the planet. A smallmouth bass gives a great fight on the end of a line. A muskie fights the hardest of them all. In the end, the bluegill still wins the title of the fightingest fish of...