2018 spring turkey harvest sees steep decline
Hunters took only 13,500 turkeys during the 2018 spring season, well behind the 2017 harvest of 15,720.
May 21, 2018
Your Daily Wisconsin Outdoor News Update – May 21, 2018
State of Wisconsin kicks off new state parks – and healthy outdoors living – initiative.
Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin to collaborate on West Nile virus monitoring in ruffed grouse
The three states are in the early stages of planning to test samples from grouse this fall, but at this point there is no evidence that the virus is having a population-level impact in the Great Lakes region.
New York state walleye, crappie records fall on same weekend
The 18-plus-pound walleye, caught in the St. Lawrence River, shattered the old mark by more than 1-1/2 pounds.
8-year-old Rogers boy wins boat, motor, trailer in crappie tourney
An 8-year-old boy is the winner of a new fully-loaded boat with motor and trailer, the grand prize in the 50th Minnesota Bound Crappie Contest. Lincoln Erickson of Rogers won with a .93-pound crappy Saturday, May 19 on Lake Minnetonka in the Twin Cities metro area. It wasn’t the biggest crappie caught Saturday: Lincoln won
Your Daily Minnesota Outdoor News Update – May 21, 2018
Despite squeeze of late ice-out, walleye egg-take a success.
Whopper silver redhorse is a record
Avid angler Dustin Stone caught a new state-record silver redhorse in the certified weight category of the Minnesota DNR‘s record fish program. Stone caught the 10-pound, 6-ounce silver redhorse while fishing for lake sturgeon on the Rainy River in Koochiching County on April 28. He was fishing with 80-pound braided line tipped with a night
Stillwater angler sets catch-and-release sturgeon record
The 73-inch lake sturgeon pulled from the Rainy River bests the previous record by 3 inches.
