Sun, heat greet hunters, but ducks were plentiful in some areas of Minnesota on opener

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Opening weekend of the 2025 Minnesota duck season had a little bit of everything for the state’s roughly 50,000 waterfowl hunters.
Lots of blue sky. Unseasonably warm morning weather that turned into balmy, summer-like afternoons. Just enough wind, at least in most areas, to keep decoys listing and ducks moving. And, of course, plenty of hungry mosquitoes. In a state with 87 counties and four distinct habitat types or biomes covering nearly 87,000 square miles, hunter success will vary – and it sure did during this year’s duck opener.

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