Metro Area Fishing Report – August 31, 2025 – video
Summer is winding down, but we’re still seeing some consistent patterns.
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August 31, 2025
September bluegills can be a tasty challenge
Bluegills can be pushovers in May when it is easy to find the willing biters. You may have to work to find them in September, however. The challenge starts with the water.
Each year is different. The water stayed close to summer pool in 2025, higher than I am used to seeing. I have been catching them in the smaller bay areas, the places often left dry or at best barely covered with water at bath temperatures. Nobody is home, except maybe a carp or two.
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Wisconsin DNR appears to have cleared detailed budget audit hurdle
The Legislative Audit Bureau (LAB) finally released its audit of the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) management of its Fish and Wildlife Account to the State Legislature’s Joint Legislative Audit Committee.
The final recommendations by the LAB were largely procedural, and at first glance did not involve significantly large errors. The DNR Fish and Wildlife Account is one of 10 accounts in the DNR Conservation Fund, which is a statutorily established segregated trust fund that finances many of the resource management programs administered by DNR.
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Wisconsin NRB tracking Minnesota wake boat study
The Wisconsin Natural Resources Board (NRB) again heard from citizens stressing that wake boats are deserving of more attention from the NRB and Department of Natural Resources (DNR) because of the environmental damage these boats can cause.
Just prior to the NRB meeting, additional results of a study of wake boat impact to lake bottom sediment were released by the University of Minnesota’s St. Anthony Falls Laboratory showing that wake boats disturb lake beds in depths down to 20 and 25 feet.
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Steve McComas: Lake drawdowns: some intended, others by surprise
Earlier in August, all the water of Lake Alice, a 26-acre lake in William O’Brien State Park (north of Stillwater, Minn.), drained accidentally into the St. Croix River when a valve stuck in the “open” position as high lake levels were being lowered due to recent heavy rains.
Lake Alice is a man-made reservoir (sometimes referred to as an impoundment) with a (former) maximum depth of 9 feet was created by an earthen dike built in 1961. In August, when the bottom valve wouldn’t close, the lake was drained.
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