July 7, 2025
Wisconsin Fishing Report – July 7, 2025
In this region, anglers have reported consistent catches of Chinook, coho, and rainbow trout, with a few lake trout also being caught.
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New York Letters to the Editor: No excuse for one hunter to shoot another hunter
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the July 11, 2025, edition of New York Outdoor News.
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Results are in from tournaments in western New York
Anglers have prospered on the water and in the wallet at a number of big-time fishing tournaments held on Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. Clockwise, from top-left, Michigan angler Jack Paquette won the Wilson Harbor Invitational with a 27.43-pound king salmon; Lime Lake Marine took the Western New York Walleye Classic; Capt.
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New York loses Oneida Lake conservationist Tony Buffa after his death at age 83
Tony Buffa, a longtime director on the Oneida Lake Association Board of Directors and one of Oneida Lake’s and Lake Ontario’s most respected fishing guides, passed away on June 13 from cancer at the age of 83.
Buffa was well-known in the region as a charter fishing captain, outdoor writer and also for his philanthropy and volunteerism. He was also a member of the New York Outdoorsman Hall of Fame.
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Conservation group makes $60M land deal to end mining threat outside Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp
A conservation group said it has reached a $60 million deal to buy land outside the Okefenokee Swamp from a mining company that environmentalists spent years battling over a proposed mine that opponents feared could irreparably damage an ecological treasure.
The Conservation Fund said it will buy all 7,700 acres (31.16 square kilometers) that Alabama-based Twin Pines Minerals owns outside the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in southeast Georgia, halting the company’s mining plans.
Wisconsin’s Rock Lake walleyes not really rolling along, but bass doing OK in this Jefferson County waterbody
Rock Lake is a deep, lowland, mesotrophic drainage lake in northwestern Jefferson County.
It lies within the town of Lake Mills that sits on its eastern shoreline and includes a millpond and Rock Creek outlet of the lake. The lake is formed by an impoundment of Rock Creek, an inlet that flows from Mud Lake northward to the Marsh Lake portion of Rock Lake. Rock Creek exits the lake and eventually flows into the Crawfish River upstream of Milford.
Backyard and Beyond: A wild porcupine pup
Sometimes the best scenes are the ones that flash by out the corner of your eye. Bob Hilbert was driving in a heavily forested area when he saw a dark lump in a roadside shrub. Backing up, the lump became a very young porcupine dining on leaf buds, and its tail (where skin-piercing quills are located in adults), “was still very short,” Hilbert said.
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Wisconsin’s Outdoor Calendar
A look at upcoming outdoors-related events from across Wisconsin published in the July 11, 2025, edition of Outdoor News.
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