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Banquet/Fundraiser  April 1: Tri County Archery League Banquet, 6 p.m., The Woodland, Gresham, WI. For more info call Matt Hesse 715-851-3939. April 2: Walleyes for Tomorrow Banquet, 5 p.m., Moose Family Center. For more info call Kim Borski, 715-341-9024. April 2: Nicolet/Wild Rivers Chapter RGS Banquet. Crandon Community Center, 5:15 p.m. For more info call […]

District 1 — Ashland area Wardens Amie Egstad and Tom Heisler worked from snowmobiles in February while checking ice fishermen on Chequamegon Bay. A few hundred people were checked due to it being such a nice Saturday. Two citations were issued for possession of an undersized lake trout and splake. Warden Lynna Gurnoe, of Bayfield,

AMERY AREA The wind really chewed up the ice that remained on most area lakes. Unless it gets extremely cold throughout the week, there’s a good chance some lakes will be completely open by this week. Lucky Baits (715) 268-6231. ASHLAND AREA Ice fishing has ended on Chequamegon Bay and anglers are looking forward to an early ice-out.

DOOR PENINSULA AND ALGOMA/KEWAUNEE AREA The ice is pretty much gone for the most part throughout the Door County Peninsula and now everyone has switched gears to the open-water opportunities that are almost endless here in the county. Brown trout fishing has started off with a bang just like it ended last year in December. Fishermen have

LAKE MICHIGAN/METRO AREA LAKES Water in the Port Washington harbor and in Sauk Creek was murky after the area received heavy rainfalls. Conditions should improve as weather stabilizes. Brown trout and occasional steelhead have been caught in the harbor near the power plant discharge. Anglers have been using a variety of baits – spawn, shiners,

Pocket porgies (Suffolk County) ECOs Kevin Holzle and Jordan Doroski, while on patrol in Mattituck, observed four people fishing on the east jetty of Mattituck Creek. After watching them for approximately 15 minutes, and watching one of the party place a very small porgy in his bucket, the officers decided that it was time for

Season Dates April 1: Trout, landlocked salmon, kokanee seasons open April 1: Winter flounder season opens April 1: Striped bass season opens (Hudson River, north of George Washington Bridge) April 7: Beaver and otter trapping seasons close (Northern Zone) April 7: Mink and muskrat trapping seasons close (portions of state) April 15: Striped bass season

Lake Ontario and tributaries: The spring fishing action should be picking upby now. Water temperatures were starting to heat up in the lake as stream outflows were nearing the 40-degree mark, according to Wes Walker at The Slippery Sinker. In Eighteen Mile Creek at Burt Dam, the water turned muddy again after the recent rains.