Wisconsin last raised its nonresident hunting and fishing license fees in 2023, but we haven’t had the spine to raise resident fees since 2005.
Instead, most folks yell: “Make nonresidents pay! Stay home if you don’t like it!”
Patrick Durkin: Nonresidents can’t carry Wisconsin’s license burden Read More »
A social-media friend recently sent me a link to YouTube videos about using “feminine napkins” as bait for catching bass, catfish, lake trout, and rainbow trout.
He considered the videos “LOL,” and said the anglers were “true innovators” who offered some great tips for fishing with tampons on the water or through the ice. Maybe so, but I don’t want to catch fish that badly.
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A good friend gets a little testy whenever he starts talking about Wisconsin’s annual spring conservation hearings. Once he gets rolling, he starts blowing snot bubbles.
By then he’s zeroing in on the bull’s-eye of his annoyance: the Conservation Congress. The CC is the citizens group that jointly sponsors April’s fish and game rules hearings with the DNR. My buddy thinks the CC is the worst idea Aldo Leopold ever spawned or supported. And man, was Leopold a thinker.
Evan Koch calls himself a “wood butcher” on Instagram, but he wields chisels with world-class skill to craft, carve, and checker gunstocks for high-end rifles and shotguns.
Checkering, of course, is functional, yet decorative carvings in which fine lines intersect in diamond-shaped patterns on gunstocks to ensure a solid grip and eye-pleasing patterns. Koch, 35, gets all the checkering work he can handle through his social-media posts and word-of-mouth referrals from mentors and satisfied customers nationwide.
Wisconsin’s natural resources always fascinated Dave Carlson, whether he was reporting stories during his 40-plus years in TV and newspapers, or clearing brush and organizing conservation programs in retirement.
Therefore, it’s fitting that Carlson, 78, of Eau Claire, will enter the Wisconsin Conservation Hall of Fame at
4 p.m. on Saturday, April 5. The WCHF’s ceremonies will be held virtually. Joining Carlson in the Hall of Fame that day will be J. Baird Callicott, 83, a longtime professor of environmental ethics and philosophy at UW-Stevens Point (2 p.m. ceremony); and Robert Freckmann, 85, a retired biology professor and namesake of the Robert W. Freckmann Herbarium at UW-Stevens Point (6 p.m. ceremony).
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School administrators likely pondered whether to change Warren Nelson’s absence Feb. 10 from “illness” to “unexcused” when learning the boy speared a sturgeon that morning on Lake Winneconne during Wisconsin’s Winnebago system’s 16-day season.
That’s all right, of course. Most Wisconsinites get it. We’d have to look long and hard to find a hunter, trapper or angler who never skipped school at least once when the outdoors beckoned.
A Richland County farmer who “made a game” of killing more than 150 deer from 2020 through 2021 has been fined $27,416.
He also has been sentenced to four months in jail, must serve three years worth of probation, and saw his hunting, fishing, and trapping privileges revoked for 42 years. Dominick R. Stanek, 61, of Viola, told investigators he shot the deer to prevent crop damage on his 207-acre farm near West Lima in southwestern Wisconsin.
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Not until Adam Christianson yanked his third fat perch from the same hole 10 yards away did I concede he might be onto something.
Being stubborn had nothing to do with my slow reaction. Until Christianson said something like, “I just love sight-fishing,” it never occurred to me that he wasn’t just jigging and waiting to feel a subtle tug. But yes, now that he called attention to it, he was staring into an 8-inch circular window while jigging a wispy plastic shrimp.
Patrick Durkin: Perch offer rare sight-fishing along Wisconsin’s Mississippi flats Read More »
While studying sites and scheduling dates for spring turkey hunts with family and friends, I can’t shake bad memories of November’s gun deer season and their impact on my spring plans.
Wisconsin’s nine-day season was nearing its final hour Dec. 1 when I passed up a fork-horned buck and shot a doe. Those two deer, and the doe’s two fawns and a yearling doe, had been milling about a wooded hilltop 50 yards away while working toward a picked cornfield.
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