Stripers are going crazy on Lake Wisconsin, and the walleyes aren’t too far behind. Most anglers are jigging for walleyes, or they’re trolling. The crappies are hitting on Crystal Lake and in the shallows on Lake Wisconsin. Trout streams are back to normal levels, and fishermen are having good success. Fish Lake anglers are catching […]
Prairie du Chien, Wis. – The Upper Mississippi River Festival “Celebrating a River of Life” gets students outside in hopes of opening doors to the world of natural resources. The festival has been held each spring since 2001 by several state and federal conservation agencies from Wisconsin and Iowa. The event, this year held May
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Albany – New York’s spring gobbler hunters are having a good season for several reasons, not the least of which is an outstanding nesting season across most of the state last year. DEC officials said the reported tom take was up about 15 percent from last year midway through the May 1-31 season. Heading into
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St. Paul – When hunters look at their 2009 regulations booklet, they’ll see a piece about lead in venison – specifically, the risk of consuming venison, and how they can reduce the risk. DNR officials are in the process of gathering that information now, and on June 4 will meet with a wide variety of
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LAKE MILLE LACS East – Crawlers have started producing walleyes during the day on the north-end sand breaks in 12 to 18 feet. The evening bite is best with bobbers and leeches in six to 12 feet on the reefs from Big Point and further south. Work the docks for smallmouth bass. Johnson’s Portside (320)
Washington – The margin by which the nearly $290 billion Farm Bill passed in mid-May in both the House (318-106, on May 14) and the Senate (81-15, on May 15) nearly ensured an override of President Bush’s recent veto. In fact, on May 21, the House did just that, 316-108. Bush said the bill was
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Washington – The Farm Bill, which was vetoed by President Bush on May 21, emerged from a House-Senate conference committee as a disappointment to most conservation group leaders, even though Congressional leaders touted its $7.9 billion increase in conservation dollars. For others, it wasn’t so much unexpected, as it was disappointing. “With the current ag
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Aitkin, Minn. – Spring tribal netting of Mille Lacs Lake walleyes effectively was wrapped up prior to the May 10 state fishing opener, and officials say the harvest by the eight bands that net the 132,000-acre lake in central Minnesota was similar to past years. As of late last week, the harvest stood at about
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Little Sturgeon Bay, Riley’s Bay, Sand Bay, and Sawyer Harbor all produced smallmouth bass last week. Plastics, tube jigs, grubs, and crankbaits, fished slowly, continued to produce most of the action. Shore anglers fishing the Stone Quarry County Park were catching some nice smallies. Don’t forget the excellent smallie angling on the Lake Michigan side
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