BirdTrout
Zim WMA, Minnesota
910 acres of public ground in St. Louis county, managed by Minnesota DNR. No named stream on our map touches it. It is in the state's huntable-land layer.
Open in BirdTrout50°F and colder is cold, through cold-transitional and cool, to warm above 70°F — the same four bands the app paints. The colour is nothing at all: Minnesota DNR publishes no thermal classification, so every stream on this map draws grey. The gauge dots are the one exception and they read live. Grey is every stream here, for the reason above.
The unit in numbers
Assembled from the state huntable public-land layer and PAD-US ownership records, dissolved into one block: the section lines a state forest is surveyed in are not a fact about access, so they are not drawn and not counted twice.
Getting on it
PAD-US carries no access class for this unit. It is in the state's huntable layer, which is why it is here; what else you may do on it is the managing agency's to say.
This unit is 3 separate blocks of ground rather than one, which is normal for public land held in surveyed sections: the blocks are not contiguous. The map above draws every one of them, and the ground between two of them belongs to somebody else. Boundaries, closures and anything posted on the ground are Minnesota Department of Natural Resources's to say, and 888-646-6367 is where to ask.
Trout streams on this ground
No named stream on our map touches this unit. That is a statement about the map — every NHD reach in the state is on it, but only named water carries a page.
Hunting
This ground is in Minnesota's huntable public-land layer as wildlife management area, managed by Minnesota DNR — 100% of the unit is covered by it. The seasons below are the 2026–2027 small-game seasons as the state's own digest publishes them; they are statewide except where a species is zoned, and the bars run 1 September to 31 August.
Minnesota requires blaze orange or blaze pink while a firearms deer season is in progress, and it applies to small game hunters too. Treat orange as required for the whole season: missing it during gun deer season is the dangerous error. We have not been able to confirm the exact wording against MN DNR — read the regulations before relying on the detail. MN DNR publishes no bag limit we could confirm for this season, so none is shown. Migratory bird: a federal HIP registration is required in addition to the small game licence.
Minnesota requires blaze orange or blaze pink while a firearms deer season is in progress, and it applies to small game hunters too. Treat orange as required for the whole season: missing it during gun deer season is the dangerous error. We have not been able to confirm the exact wording against MN DNR — read the regulations before relying on the detail. MN DNR publishes no bag limit we could confirm for this season, so none is shown. Statewide. MN DNR reported ruffed grouse in the declining phase of the population cycle in July 2026, which is a cycle position and not a season restriction.
Minnesota requires blaze orange or blaze pink while a firearms deer season is in progress, and it applies to small game hunters too. Treat orange as required for the whole season: missing it during gun deer season is the dangerous error. We have not been able to confirm the exact wording against MN DNR — read the regulations before relying on the detail. MN DNR publishes no bag limit we could confirm for this season, so none is shown. Same season dates as ruffed grouse — MN DNR publishes them on one row — but a different bird with its own bag limit, found in the far-north conifer rather than in aspen.
Daily bag 1, possession 1. Minnesota requires blaze orange or blaze pink while a firearms deer season is in progress, and it applies to small game hunters too. Treat orange as required for the whole season: missing it during gun deer season is the dangerous error. We have not been able to confirm the exact wording against MN DNR — read the regulations before relying on the detail. Fall season only. One turkey of either sex; hunt any open permit area statewide, and report the area of harvest when registering. Spring turkey is not covered here. Minnesota runs spring turkey as numbered lottery time periods, and we could not read the 2026 period dates from MN DNR, so they are left out rather than guessed.
Minnesota requires blaze orange or blaze pink while a firearms deer season is in progress, and it applies to small game hunters too. Treat orange as required for the whole season: missing it during gun deer season is the dangerous error. We have not been able to confirm the exact wording against MN DNR — read the regulations before relying on the detail. MN DNR publishes no bag limit we could confirm for this season, so none is shown. Roosters only. The birds are in the south-west and south-central farmland; the season is statewide but the pheasants are not.
Zoned — Minnesota publishes this season by zone, and this page does not place this unit in one, so no season bar is drawn. Seasons by zone — Northwest zone: 19 Sep – 30 Nov; East-central zone: closed all season. Minnesota requires blaze orange or blaze pink while a firearms deer season is in progress, and it applies to small game hunters too. Treat orange as required for the whole season: missing it during gun deer season is the dangerous error. We have not been able to confirm the exact wording against MN DNR — read the regulations before relying on the detail. MN DNR publishes no bag limit we could confirm for this season, so none is shown. Open in the northwest zone only. The east-central zone has been closed since 2021 on low population and is not open in 2026. The zone boundary is not mapped in this app — the dates are per zone, the zone you are standing in is not yet answered.
Hunter orange: Minnesota's blaze orange/pink requirement is conditional on an open firearms deer season and applies to small game hunters. We have not confirmed the exact statutory text or the exemption list, so every species is shown as requiring orange — the safe way to be wrong.
Access sites and amenities
No public access site we have on record stands on this unit. We hold no trail or campground data at all, so what is here is what the state publishes as launches and walk-in access, and none of it falls on this ground.
When to come
The hatch calendar for northern Wisconsin, which is the region this unit's centre falls in — the same regions the app's hatch panel uses. It is a regional record, not a survey of this ground: nobody has counted insects unit by unit. Year-round records (midges, scuds, sculpins) are left out. The seasons above are the other half of this calendar: the water is best before the ground is.
January
February
April
May
- Blue-Winged Olive
- Blackfly
- Cranefly
- Grannom
- +10 more
June
July
- Caterpillar
- Crayfish
- Green Sedge
- Light Cahill
- +17 more
August
September
October
November
December
Regulations
Nothing on this page is a regulation. The fishing rules that apply to the water on this ground — the types, the seasons, the size limits and the gear restrictions — are on the Minnesota fishing regulations page, built from the agency's own columns. The hunting seasons above come from the state's hunting digest, read against the 2026 licence year.
Public land nearby
The nearest other blocks of public ground, centre to centre. Public land does not tile a state the way watersheds do, so this is nearness rather than adjacency.
- Sax WMA 1.3 mi
- Fermoy WMA 1.5 mi
- Miscellaneous 3.4 mi
- Little Whiteface River WMA 8.0 mi
- Cloquet Valley 8.4 mi
Plan a weekend around it
The trip pages whose range reaches this ground — the water in the same drive, what is hatching, and a three-day plan built from it.