Metro Area Fishing Report – June 8, 2025 – video
Weed growth is a little wonky and fishing patterns fluctuate with the weather, but the fish are showing up.
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June 8, 2025
Stay calm, patient to land big trout on ultralight gear
The summer sun was pushing its way over the far eastern fringe of trees, the sky around it a bright yellow gold. I stood quietly, listening to the stream bubbling, the birds singing and the raucous cawing of the crows.
I was fishing Potato Creek in McKean County, Pa., this morning above Smethport. Potato is a larger stream and holds trout well. So do Marvin and Kinzua creeks. This time of year with low, clear water, ultralight equipment is the way to go.
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Two Wisconsin deer hunters earn 2024 ethical hunter award
Two deer hunters, one an archer and the other a gun-deer hunter, received the 2024 Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Ethical Hunter Award, sponsored by Vortex Optics of Barneveld.
Eliot Babino, of Platteville, and Cody Kabus, of Independence, stepped forward to be congratulated for their ethical acts during a presentation at Vortex Optics headquarters on April 17.
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Bob Zink: Talk about opening a can of worms… in salmon
No, this article is not about crossbows, walleyes in Lake Mille Lacs, or deer and wolves in northern Minnesota. It’s literally about worms in cans – of salmon, that is.
My wife and I once were eating some cod, and I noticed a white, filamentous thread that I figured was some kind of connective tissue. After eating a couple of these, I looked more closely and realized the white “threads” were nematodes, a parasitic worm.
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Wisconsin State Roundup: Good news coming for Buena Vista prairie chickens?
The Buena Vista State Wildlife Area’s greater prairie chickens may get some favorable news by July 1 as it relates to the large solar farm proposed by Vista Sands LLC, the company that wants to build a roughly 9,000-acre solar farm on ag land next to the wildlife area.
The Wisconsin Wildlife Federation (WWF) filed an action against the project in Columbia County Circuit Court a while back. Vista Sands is interested in negotiating a settlement with the WWF, according to George Meyer, former DNR secretary and the WWF executive director from 2003 through 2021.
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A close look at the snapper — the sturgeon of the turtle family
Most people rarely see a snapping turtle in the wild. The most common time we see them is when we’re driving around in the early summer and we encounter an adult female moving to lay its eggs near the road in a sandy or fine gravel area.
Retired conservation officer Mike Webster commented to me that he typically observed snapping turtles in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan during nesting activity around the summer solstice each year. Of course, turtles are very vulnerable at this time of year when attempting to lay their eggs.
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