A Waupaca County Conservation Congress delegate, Bob Peterson, thinks he can simplify shooting hours for waterfowl and turkey hunters by eliminating the current northern and southern zone hours, which he said can confuse hunters.
Peterson, of Waupaca, offered his idea in the form of a resolution April 14 at the county’s spring fish and wildlife hearings at Waupaca High School.
While the Waupaca County’s County Deer Advisory Council (CDAC) met May 1 for three hours to make recommendations for the 2025 deer seasons, much of that time was spent discussing local cases of chronic wasting disease.
CDAC member Bob Leder, of Bear Creek, a retired large-animal veterinarian, opened the CWD discussion. Although the vast majority of CWD-positive deer have been reported in southwestern Wisconsin’s Iowa, Dane, Richland, and Sauk counties, the disease was reported for the first time last year in Chippewa, Pierce, Manitowoc, and Menominee counties.
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Sporting a fluorescent green Sturgeon For Tomorrow vest, Tom Markowski and Mike Schmalzer stood out like sore thumbs as lake sturgeon cruised the Fox River in downtown Princeton, Wis.
The pair were two of more than 100 volunteers who hit the river behind Princeton’s Water Street April 19 for the start of the annual spawning run up the Fox and Wolf rivers. Markowski and Schmalzer headed to Princeton from their homes in Redgranite and Rosendale, respectively, as Sturgeon Guards, part of a group of more than 100 volunteers who keep an eye on crowds as DNR crews capture, record information from, and release hundreds of fish each year.
Wisconsin’s Sturgeon Guard back to work with spawning underway Read More »
A local high school fishing club was able to get up close and personal with spawning lake sturgeon on the Fox River in Wisconsin.
The annual sturgeon spawning ritual on the Fox River in Princeton kicked off with DNR crews using electrofishing boats and a light electrical current to temporarily stun sturgeon so they could be captured and “scienced.” Members of Princeton High School’s fishing club waited on shore to help measure and tag fish.
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While Zach Swanson is only 10 years old and still has plenty of hunting opportunities in his future, his first experience will be one that he will never forget.
Swanson participated April 5 in the Waupaca learn-to-hunt turkey program, which offers new and inexperienced hunters an opportunity to participate in a turkey hunt with a mentor. The free program has been held the weekend before Wisconsin’s state youth turkey hunt for more than 20 years.
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Big Green Lake, one of Wisconsin’s most popular fishing destinations, may soon see the daily panfish bag limit drop from 25 to 10 if sportsmen support a DNR proposal at the April spring fish and game hearings that open Monday, April 14.
“It’s not species-specific, it’s panfish-specific,” said Scott Bunde, a DNR fisheries biologist for Green Lake, Marquette, and Waushara counties. “You would be allowed to have 10 panfish in total made up of the various species of panfish.”
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In some ways, Lake Lucerne is like hundreds of other lakes in northern Wisconsin, with scenic shorelines dotted with cottages and resorts. A public landing in the southeast corner may entice anglers to launch boats and drop a line, but a forage issue is suspected as a main reason for the lake’s less-than-spectacular fishery.
Forage a concern for Wisconsin’s Forest County’s Lake Lucerne Read More »
Anglers in the Peshtigo area don’t have far to go to find a diverse fishery because there’s one in their own backyard.
It’s been five years since the DNR last did a deep dive into the Peshtigo Flowage, an impoundment of the Peshtigo River that flows through the city of Peshtigo. Fisheries crews captured more than 1,800 fish during that 2019 survey.
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Barron County may not have the reputation as a fishing destination like Sawyer, Oneida or Vilas counties, but it does offer plenty of opportunities for anglers, including Big Moon Lake, located between Clayton and Turtle Lake.
Muskies make Barron County’s Big Moon Lake worth a visit in Wisconsin Read More »
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