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Outdoors

OUTDOORS CALENDAR

Today – Four Bears Casino, Casino Cup Walleye Circuit, 800-294-5454. Aug. 14 – ND High School Bass State Championship, Lake Audubon. Aug. 14 – Lake Region Anglers Walleye Widow Outing, Devils Lake, Lakewood Landing, 351-0950. Aug. 14 – Souris River Basin Longbeards Youth Shooting ...

Audubon boat ramp restrictions

Boaters and recreationists using the primary boat ramp on Lake Audubon can expect some restrictions for the next several weeks. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is currently doing concrete repairs to the main boat ramp, known as the East Totten Trail ramp, and will be doing so until ...

COMMENTS BY KIM: Bananas on a boat? Get ‘em outa’ here!

It is an undisputed historical fact, seriously, that bananas on a boat are bad luck. Sometimes very bad luck. What kind of a banana bread nutcase believes that? Typical response, unless you are a boat owner. I’ve seen the signs along the boats moored at many ports on the Florida coast ...

The Powers Lake project

POWERS LAKE – In 2017 a dredge began operation on Powers Lake with the ambitious goal of cleaning up the water. Years and years of sediment containing high amounts of nutrients had settled into the lake, fueling algae blooms that degraded water quality so much that use of the lake had dropped ...

COMMENTS BY KIM: Low water watch begins

It hasn’t produced any serious trouble yet, but you can see it from here. North Dakota’s lake and rivers are feeling the heat. Water levels are low and dropping. Sloughs are drying up. Algae outbreaks thrive in hot weather, especially without any fresh rainfall. Dissolved oxygen levels ...

Oldest entrant forced to withdraw from recent Governor’s Walleye Cup

GARRISON – Oh, he would have been there alright. No question about that, but things didn’t quite work out as planned. Ken Siegel of Mandan, at 90 years of age the oldest entrant in the recent Governor’s Cup Walleye Tournament, stayed home from this year’s event held July 16-17. That ...