June 22, 2024

Kletsch dam fish passage opens 25 miles of Wisconsin’s Milwaukee River

Featured, Fishing, Home Page News, National Fishing, National News, News, Wisconsin / Larry Polenske

The completion of the Kletsch dam fish passage in Glendale, Wis., opens 25 miles of the Milwaukee River north to Grafton, allowing fish to freely travel farther upriver now from Lake Michigan.
In addition, the new fish passage opens 29 miles of Milwaukee River tributaries and 2,400 acres of wetlands that offers expanded spawning habitat for many fish species.

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Sturgeon running up the Milwaukee River in Wisconsin, but no spawning fish discovered yet

Featured, Fishing, Home Page News, National Fishing, National News, Nature Page & Night Sky, News, Wisconsin / Larry Polenske

While fish swimming within a resuscitated lake sturgeon population continue to make a spring run up the Milwaukee River, the local fisheries crew has yet to see evidence of spawning.
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Fisheries Biologist Aaron Schiller said, as of June 12, PIT-tag sensors in the river near Locust Avenue detected 23 sturgeon swimming upstream from Lake Michigan. Last year, 23 fish also were detected. In 2022, 24 PIT-tagged sturgeon hit the sensors. This year, five of those sturgeon made it all the way through the new Kletzsch dam fish passage farther upstream.

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Ben Moyer: Taking a close look at paper calling for federal leadership in deer management

Featured, Hunting, National Hunting, Opinion, Pennsylvania / Ben Moyer

The prior issue of this publication carried a story about researchers who collaborated to publish a paper titled: “Where have all the flowers gone? A call for federal leadership in deer management in the United States.”
That’s a name that’s sure to spark boiling opposition among deer hunters and state wildlife agencies. The states, legally and traditionally, have purview over deer management within their borders. Sensing our readers’ interest, I searched for the paper online, then read the nine-page text.

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Fly-fishing for carp on Pennsylvania’s lower Shenango River? It’s fantastic fun

Featured, Features, Fishing, Home Page News, National Fishing, Pennsylvania / Jerry Bush

A friend promised me that we could catch a multitude of fish by wading into the lower Shenango River, just below the concrete structure that holds back the water that creates Shenango River Lake.
I’d fished portions of the lower river, but I was hesitant when he claimed we could wade to within 75 yards or closer to the dam itself. As we approached the dam, I noticed red danger signs at the riverbanks, which ironically gave me confidence. Their display meant officials had determined where deep water began, and that increased my confidence to move around in the waist-high water where my buddy had led me.

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How to keep an elderly sporting dog going well into the golden years

Featured, Features, Home Page News, Hunting, Minnesota, National Hunting / Site Staff

The hardest thing to deal with as a dog owner is how short their lives are. The puppy stage is a mixture of fun and frustration, but it doesn’t last long. Middle age is amazing, especially for hunting dogs. The prime years in the field or in the duck blind are really what makes it so special to own a bird dog.
Then, before you know it, the gray shows up around the muzzle and the snappy movements turn into something a little more deliberate and pained.

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Commentary: Realign research priorities to focus on game

Featured, Hunting, Michigan, National Hunting, Opinion / Russ Mason

When it comes to science-based decision-making, agencies have always struggled to source relevant usable information.
Initially, the challenge was a lack of capacity. In 1939, when Aldo Leopold’s wildlife management program was established at the University of Wisconsin, the field had few scholars, no other departments, no recognized experts, and, at best, somewhat rudimentary methods of research.

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Interested in Ohio’s fall steelhead fishing? Here are some of the state’s best access points

Featured, Features, Fishing, Home Page News, National Fishing, Ohio / Mike Moore

If you’re a steelhead fisherman, it’s never too early to start thinking about the fall runs up the northeast Ohio tributaries of Lake Erie.
These lake-run rainbow trout make their temporary homes in a handful of northeast Ohio rivers in the fall and winter after spending the summer swimming around in the big lake. With that in mind, Ohio Outdoor News checked in with a couple of fisheries biologists from the Ohio DNR Division of Wildlife to highlight popular steelhead access points on some of the steelhead rivers.

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Episode 493 – CDC dog rules, loons and grebes, north country deer study, barred owl sharpshooting

From The Pages Of MN ODN / Site Staff

Managing Editor Rob Drieslein and Editor Tim Spielman start the

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Mike Schoonveld: All lost fish are big ones: Prove me wrong!

Featured, Features, Fishing, Home Page News, Michigan, National Fishing / Mike Schoonveld

I saw a friend’s Facebook post recently in which he was showing off his first ever Chinook salmon.
He said it weighed 16 pounds then explained he’d hooked another but it tangled in a downrigger wire and broke off. He then reported, “The captain said it was easily 20 pounds.”
I posted a comment to his remarks, “Every salmon that breaks the line and swims free weighs at least 20 pounds.”
Obviously, that’s not always the case, but it’s almost impossible to prove. Almost!

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Kletsch dam fish passage opens 25 miles of Wisconsin’s Milwaukee River

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Fly-fishing for carp on Pennsylvania’s lower Shenango River? It’s fantastic fun

How to keep an elderly sporting dog going well into the golden years

Commentary: Realign research priorities to focus on game

Interested in Ohio’s fall steelhead fishing? Here are some of the state’s best access points

Episode 493 – CDC dog rules, loons and grebes, north country deer study, barred owl sharpshooting

Mike Schoonveld: All lost fish are big ones: Prove me wrong!

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