There’s ice on lakes across the state, but be careful out there. There are reports of anglers catching fish, but that’s been a bit spotty, too.
Michigan Outdoor News Fishing Report – December 18, 2025 – video Read More »
The Natural Resources Foundation (NRF) of Wisconsin hired former Natural Resources Board member Marcy West as landscape initiatives advisor, guiding the NRF’s long-term conservation efforts.
Jeff Pritzl, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) deer ecologist, gave a thumbnail nine-day gun deer season report to the December meeting of the Natural Resources Board (NRB), saying the preliminary 2025 harvest numbers are very similar to 2024.
“The buck harvest was down, but the antlerless harvest was up a bit, which is a bright note,” Pritzl said.
Breaking down Wisconsin’s gun deer harvest as buck kill is down, doe harvest up from ’24 Read More »
One of the more frequent questions people ask about my job is ‘What do you guys do in winter?’ People who ask that question correctly identify that our work changes quite a bit once ice locks fish under its cover until spring.
Ask a fisheries biologist: What do we do in the winter? Read More »
Anglers are starting to move around, but more ice needed. Here’s a look at the Wisconsin fishing report on Dec. 18, 2025.
Wisconsin’s statewide fishing report on Dec. 18, 2025 Read More »
H5 avian influenza has been confirmed in Canada geese at Green Valley Lake and at Lake of Three Fires, Iowa wildlife officials announced on Thursday.
Staff with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) collected dead geese for testing at Iowa State University’s Veterinary Diagnostic Lab. Results were available late Wednesday.
Lake Luzerne Town Supervisor Gene Merlino was surprised but excited to see ice fishermen on Lake Luzerne on Dec. 6, the earliest he could recall there being fishable ice on the southern Adirondack lake in years.
“It was great to see. Maybe we are going to get a real winter,” he said.
New York’s ice anglers maximize earliest start in years Read More »
Ice making off to a good start. Here’s a look at the New York fishing and hunting report across the state on Dec. 28, 2025.
New York’s statewide fishing and hunting report on Dec. 18, 2025 Read More »
Here’s a look at the Iowa fishing report from across the state on Dec. 18, 2025.
Iowa’s statewide fishing report on Dec. 18, 2025 Read More »
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