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Quiet waters of Quetico yield walleye bounty

Duluth News Tribune, Sam Cook McClatchy Newspapers

Last updated Saturday, July 2, 2011 - 4:24pm

ATIKOKAN, Ontario -- From the edge of our island camp in Ontario's Quetico Provincial Park comes the soft plip of a jig and plastic worm hitting the water. Silence. Then another plip.

Terry Christensen and Larry Riley are already up, casting from our granite porch into the stained waters of this wilderness lake. A rod bows. A fish is on.

Our first afternoon in this camp, our six-person group would catch 21 fish from shore, nearly all of them walleyes. And we would catch 40 more from our canoes, jigging over shallow rock reefs within sight of camp.

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Minnesota snowmobiler survives collision with owl

Duluth News Tribune, Sam Cook

Last updated Friday, January 21, 2011 - 2:23pm

DULUTH, Minn. -- One moment, Chris Hatfield of Two Harbors, Minn., was zipping along the North Shore State Trail on his snowmobile. The next, he was sprawled on the trail unconscious, the victim of a vicious collision.

With an owl.

Hatfield, 35, remembers the seconds leading up to the collision, which occurred about 8 p.m. on Jan. 8. He had just rounded a corner on the state trail in Duluth. He estimates he was traveling at 40 to 45 mph.

"Right in front of me, I saw something, and then it went black," Hatfield said. "It knocked me off the sled and knocked me out."

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Climb Denali in January's cold and dark, alone? That's the plan

Duluth News Tribune

Last updated Wednesday, December 22, 2010 - 2:24pm

DULUTH, Minn. -- Lonnie Dupre of Grand Marais, Minn., knows full well what he's getting into. In the next few weeks, he hopes to become the first person on Earth to reach the summit of Alaska's Denali on a solo expedition in January.

The mountain is so cold, its winds so ferocious and the daylight so skimpy in January, that the odds of success are small. Only nine expeditions totaling 16 people have reached the summit of Denali in winter. Six people have died on winter attempts.

Only one team has reached the mountain's 20,320-foot summit in January. Two Russians in a three-person party reached the peak on Jan. 16, 1998.

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Nature and man adapt to the hunt

Duluth News Tribune, Sam Cook

Last updated Sunday, November 7, 2010 - 9:12pm

DULUTH, Minn. -- Somewhere, a chickadee sits on the weathered frame of a deer stand. The stand is empty now. The chickadee cocks its head and pivots to keep the north wind from ruffling its feathers.

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Partnerships born in a goose blind

Duluth News Tribune, Sam Cook

Last updated Saturday, October 16, 2010 - 3:40pm

FOSSTON, Minn. -- The geese are just over the distant trees, a ragged ribbon of dark wings stretching across a good piece of the horizon.

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Shhhhhhh . . . the quiet hunting season has started

Duluth News Tribune, Sam Cook

Last updated Saturday, September 25, 2010 - 4:01pm

DULUTH, Minn. -- The quiet season opened this week. With little fanfare, and in solitary fashion, thousands of archery deer hunters eased into the woods and sat silently in their chosen trees, hoping a whitetail would approach within shooting range.

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Guide shares his tips on planning for a Montana elk hunt

Duluth News Tribune, Sam Cook

Last updated Thursday, September 23, 2010 - 4:37pm

Mike Hoops made his first trip to Montana to hunt elk in 1997 and began guiding for an outfitter in 2006. This will be his fifth season as a guide for Wilderness Connections in Gardiner, Mont.

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