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Spring smallmouth now catch-and-release only on Green Bay

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After years of speculation, the 2026 spring and early summer smallmouth bass season on Green Bay waters is catch-and-release only for the first time ever.
A controversial change that came about after years of public meetings and a positive vote at the spring fish and wildlife rules hearings, the rule originated from considerable long-term concerns raised by the angling public for additional protection of spawning fish.

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Commentary: Wisconsin DNR budget – plenty of blame to spread all around

3 Comments / Discussions, Featured, Fishing, Home Page News, Hunting, Nature Page & Night Sky, Opinion, Wisconsin /

When it comes to the politics of how to best spend a multi-billion-dollar state budget surplus, everyone’s been an expert lately.
If I were governor for a day, I’d give all taxpayers a rebate, fill a few million potholes and still have enough left to boost Wisconsin’s tourism economy by finally tackling some of the needed upgrades at fish hatcheries, state parks, and public boat launches.

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Heavy rains lead to record steelhead run in Wisconsin’s Lake Michigan tribs

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Snowmelt from a late storm and the wettest April on record – nearly 8 inches of rain the first two weeks alone – helped lure a massive run of rainbow trout into Lake Michigan tributaries this spring.
As of April 15, Green Bay recorded 7.88 inches of rain for the month, shattering the previous record set nearly a century earlier. The city officially ended the month at 8.56 inches. High, dirty water from all that rain and run-off kept fishing pressure and success down, while more fish reached the DNR’s Besadny Anadromous Fish Facility three miles west of the lake at Kewaunee.

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Research students net multiple giant sturgeon, including 90-incher at Wisconsin’s De Pere dam

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University of Wisconsin-Green Bay graduate Jacob Hoffmann, of Coleman, got his feet wet fishing with his dad as a small boy years ago on the Peshtigo River.
More recently, he’s turned that love of all things finned into important research on the Fox River in De Pere. A graduate student working in the Green Bay Aquatic Ecology and Fisheries Laboratory – part of the Department of Natural and Applied Sciences at UW-Green Bay – Hoffmann is working with Wisconsin’s largest and oldest fish species, the lake sturgeon.

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Fed dollars boost Wisconsin DNR’s budget with nearly $38 million for fish, wildlife

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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) will be sending more than $1.2 billion in Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration excise tax apportionments to support states, commonwealths and territories in their efforts to fund conservation and outdoor efforts.
Wisconsin’s Department of Natural Resources is due to receive $13,478,630 in fish restoration dollars, the sixth-highest in the country, and $23,485,531 in wildlife restoration funds – the ninth-most.

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Three-pound perch from Green Bay could be biggest caught in Wisconsin in 70 years

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Andrew Berken, of Pulaski, was fishing with his dad, Kevin, and 2-1⁄2-year-old daughter, Finnley, when he struck gold in the waters off Door County Feb. 11.
“I have a few good trophy perch spots scattered around the Larson’s Reef area near Sturgeon Bay,” Berken said.
The first area was devoid of angling competition, so they set up in that spot first.

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Wisconsin’s busy sports show season opens mid-January

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Winter came early this year, the blast of cold and snow a wakeup call for late-season hunters and ice anglers who scrambled to swap out their gear.
Now that we’re weeks into it, it’s time to look ahead to the Wisconsin sports show season, a chance for those who love the outdoors to stoke their passions inside for a few hours.

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Wisconsin 8-year-old tags 524-pound bear

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A young hunter from Luck continued a family tradition by punching his black bear tag with a 500-plus-pound bruin.
Rhett Swenson, 8, a third-generation bear hunter, said his “Papa”– grandfather Jeff Holdt of Luck – started trailing bears with hounds in 1989, the year his mom, Aalyssa, was born.
“His first year hunting, he got a record bear weighing 628 pounds live,” Rhett Swenson said. “The luck then continued in 2021 when my dad got a 515 live (bear).”

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Archers take pair of 500-pound central Wisconsin bears

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Two Wisconsin bowhunters scored on trophy central Wisconsin black bears to kick off the 2025 season, both in the 500-pound live weight range and in the mid-400 pounds field dressed.
One of the bears came from Marathon County, while the other was shot in Wood County. Jesse Call, of Athens, has been bear hunting since 2017, all in Zone C.

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