Iowa’s statewide fishing report on Jan. 17, 2025
Here’s a look at the Iowa fishing report from across the state on Jan. 17, 2025.
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January 17, 2025
Wisconsin Mixed Bag: Natural Resources Board meeting Jan. 22
The Natural Resources Board (NRB) will meet at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 22, in public meeting room G09, State Natural Resources Building (GEF 2), 101 South Webster Street, Madison, when board members are expected to take action on 2025 black bear harvest quotas and a possible change to a rule prohibiting the possession of firearms while fishing.
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Good news for Wisconsin sturgeon spearers: Lake Winnebago ’bloodworm’ densities highest since 2019
If the success of Wisconsin’s annual Lake Winnebago system sturgeon spearing season depends on the strength of a “three-legged stool” that supports the season, then the 2025 rendition should have at least two strong corners – increased “bloodworm” numbers and perhaps some very good water clarity/ice conditions, cracks bridged notwithstanding.
Meanwhile, another forage base heavily used by the Winnebago system’s lake sturgeon, gizzard shad, is down, so sturgeon may be keying on bloodworm “beds.”
Wisconsin bear quota, deer unit map going to the Natural Resources Board
The Wisconsin DNR’s Randy Johnson will ask Natural Resources Board (NRB) members to approve an increase in the black bear harvest quota and kill tag levels for the 2025 season when the board meets Wednesday, Jan. 22, in Madison.
Johnson will ask – with support from the Conservation Congress and the DNR bear committee – for a 2025 bear harvest quota of 4,075 animals. That’s up from the 2024 quota of 3,850.
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Wisconsin’s statewide fishing report on Jan. 17, 2025
Most lake areas seeing best ice travel in many years. Here’s a look at the Wisconsin fishing report from across the state on Jan. 17, 2025.
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WI Daily Update: Maggots for walleyes?
Tim Lesmeister and freshwater fishing hall of famer Dave Genz
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Commentary: USFWS denies Sportsmen’s Alliance petitions on wolves
On Jan. 7, the Sportsmen’s Alliance Foundation received “not-warranted” findings as a politically-motivated farewell folly from the Biden administration on two Endangered Species Act petitions requesting the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service delist gray wolves in the Western Great Lakes and downlist West Coast wolves to threatened.
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North Dakota summit tackles habitat loss, hunting access
More than 200 hunters, anglers, landowners, legislators, local business owners, and state biologists attended the Habitat and Hunting Access Summit at Bismarck State College on Dec. 17. The goal of the meeting, hosted by the North Dakota Game and Fish Department, was to raise awareness about the need for more wildlife habitat in North Dakota.
Newly elected North Dakota Gov. Kelly Armstrong kicked off the meeting by describing himself as an avid deer and bird hunter.
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Mike Schoonveld: Sea lamprey in the Great Lakes benefited from COVID shut down
Much of the world changed thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic.
We are still living in its aftermath and will be for the foreseeable future. Decades ago, much of the Great Lakes fish populations changed due to invasive sea lampreys infesting the Great Lakes and the Great Lakes are still living in the aftermath of the “lamprey pandemic.”
Granted, conflating these two pandemics may seem a stretch, but there is a connection between them.
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