Sports

Colin Flanagin's first fish

Colin Flanagin, 8, of Gilby, N.D., caught his first fish recently when he landed this sunfish while fishing at McVille Dam near McVille, N.D. The fish was kept.

3664519+Colin Flanagin.jpg — Colin Flanagin, 8, of Gilby, N.D., caught his first fish recently when he landed this sunfish while fishing at McVille Dam near McVille, N.D. The fish was kept.

By Brad Dokken

September 14, 2017 at 1:18 PM

Colin Flanagin, 8, of Gilby, N.D., caught his first fish recently when he landed this sunfish while fishing at McVille Dam near McVille, N.D. The fish was kept.

By Brad Dokken

Brad Dokken joined the Herald company in November 1985 as a copy editor for Agweek magazine and has been the Grand Forks Herald's outdoors editor since 1998.

Besides his role as an outdoors writer, Dokken has an extensive background in northwest Minnesota and Canadian border issues and provides occasional coverage on those topics.

Reach him at bdokken@gfherald.com, by phone at (701) 780-1148 or on Twitter at @gfhoutdoor.