Weiss: Happy fishing New Year in southern Minnesota

Weiss: Happy fishing New Year in southern Minnesota

I’m diligently checking weather forecasts now that it’s a new year, searching for temperatures above freezing, even by a few degrees, because I don’t like frozen guides and numb fingers when trout fishing some cherished waters that were off limits for 2.5 months. We could only fish trout, catch-and-release, in three state parks and five sites from mid-October through Dec. 31. Come the new year, all waters that can be legally fished can be fished…