Strange, I have paramount and there is only about 2 minutes of commercials before a movie starts and then it’s commercial free for the movie. Shows/series on the other hand have commercials throughout the show.

Yep it’s still catch and release year round for walleye, sauger, smallmouth and largemouth bass. As for time of year, it’s a great time to be out there. Best action will be from the confluence to the dam.

There’s one thing with harvesting bait thats never made sense to me. You can buy minnows from a bait shop and go to a body of water that is heavily infested with several things milfoil, zebra mussels, etc and camp out and fish for a week, dragging your minnows around in a minnow bucket the whole time. Now transfer the minnows to clean tap or bottled water and go fish a pristine uninfested lake and be totally legal, but you can’t trap or net minnows out of that heavily infested water and transfer them to tap or bottled water to use somewhere else.