Metro Area Fishing Report – May 11, 2025 – video
A lot is going on and the fish are snapping.
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May 11, 2025
Late-season gobblers can be had, often with a subtle approach
The last two weeks of spring gobbler season can provide tough though rewarding hunting. Many gobblers have been tagged, and the ones that remain may have endured some nasty experiences and will be reluctant to come to even the best of calls. Even so, there are advantages for hunters during these final weeks.
One is that there will be fewer hunters in the woods.
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Commentary: Why no DNR wolf estimate in latest monitoring report from Wisconsin?
The latest Wisconsin DNR Wolf Monitoring Report, furnished to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, contains no wolf population estimate. Why is the previous winter’s wolf estimate different from any other year, when Wisconsin DNR developed either a minimum wolf count, or a population estimate?
I consulted with four wolf experts around the country. All have decades of experience with wolf management and research.
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Light turnout at Dane, Vernon county spring hearings in Wisconsin
What a difference a year makes, as the Dane County Conservation Congress and Wisconsin DNR spring conservation hearing held April 14 drew only 23 attendees.
In 2024 the event, also held at the McFarland High School, was held in a large auditorium and attracted just short of 100 people with an interest in three questions involving controversial wake boats, that opponents charge can spread invasive aquatic species and create high waves that present safety and shoreline concerns.
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On the search for what can be elusive big bluegills in Ohio
My favorite fish comes down to a choice between the smallmouth bass and the bluegill. Everyone understands the smallmouth. But the bluegill? Not so much, not to the level of the black basses or the walleyes. For eating, I prefer bluegills above all else. Yellow perch is the only equal contender in my mind.
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Steve Griffin: Don’t ignore those mid-day toms
On turkey season’s first morning in Michigan, I sat on a low hunting chair in a pine tangle, behind a camo mesh, and listened to the world wake up. It was the perfect place to be, these minutes before first light an ideal time to be there.
Songbirds sang in the pasture behind me, while male woodcock stretched their low-light peenting shift in search of more romance. In new daylight there was an explosion of frog peeps in a small pond to the east. And was that a gobble, way off to the northwest?
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