Episode 437 – Crossbows statewide, a thorough Minnesota inland waters fishing report, and a border fishing forecast via Jeff Anderson of Lake of the Woods Family Resorts
With the 2023 legislative session wrapped up, host and Managing
May 27, 2023
Wisconsin DNR, Natural Resources Board debate earlier muskie opener for northern zone
The DNR told Wisconsin Natural Resources Board members that the agency plans to forward four statewide fishery questions that were on the DNR spring hearings questionnaire, but one board member suggested putting the brakes on the earlier muskie season opener in northern Wisconsin.
The public supported the earlier opener when presented with the question on the spring hearing questionnaire, but some members of the Conservation Congress and Natural Resources Board worry an earlier opener would put too much stress on spawning muskies.
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Deconstructing catch-and-release fishing
Catch-and-release fishing can be a deep subject, really. We have come to accept catch and release as a norm of modern fishing, and it certainly has its valid place. But hard thinkers on natural resource topics as respected as Ted Kerasote have debated the practice in writing, on ethical and ecological grounds.
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A look at all we lose, and sometimes find again, in our outdoor pursuits
The Great Vault of Lost and Found Outdoor Gear must lie in a remote mountain valley somewhere, and if we ever find that spot what a trove it will hold.
I am not talking about the odd pair of wool socks left at a fish camp in northern Canada, or a moth-eaten old sweater missing from the duffel after a cross-country ski trip. I am talking real stuff – say, a spare fly rod inadvertently left by a stream, hiking boots tied and hanging on a mountainside tree, or even, perhaps, that backup hunting rifle you took to elk camp.
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Lake Michigan brown trout are heading north
Before there were salmon in the Great Lakes, there were brown trout.
Before Dr. Howard Tanner took the reins of the Michigan Fisheries Department with the mandate, “Do something spectacular,” Michigan’s fish biologists had tried to do spectacular things in the Great Lakes by stocking them with both steelhead and brown trout. The results were mixed, but certainly not up to “spectacular” standards.
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