According to a researcher at the University of Wisconsin Madison and liaison with the Wisconsin DNR, anglers will have a hard time catching these fish later this century. Here’s why. Categories: News, Walleye Tags: Walleyes, Wisconsin DNR
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers bestowed top honors at its annual event in Missoula last weekend.
(Photo by Brian S. Peterson)Last year’s Lake Erie walleye survey numbers set a new record – and in a big, big way. Just how big? Read more here. Categories: News, Walleye Tags: Lake Erie, Walleyes
Man fined $5,500 and will pay $64,465 in restitution to the Ohio DNR.
Open-water regs also allow for one fish over 20 inches, from 17 inches in 2021.
The walleye regulation for multiple water bodies will switch to the standard walleye regs for the Ceded Territory in northern Wisconsin.
Outdoor News gives you a sneak peek at some of the hot new fishing lures for open-water anglers in 2022.
Good news for anglers as access to many fish species becomes easier than any other time of the year, and it doesn’t take a big boat to get in on the action. Video courtesy of Angling Buzz. Categories: Fishing, Fishing, Minnesota Videos, News Tags: Angling Buzz, Fishing
In between will again be a summer of catch-and-release fishing, with an early July closure to reduce hooking mortality.
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(Photo via Instagram/Wyatt Williams)The numbers are what panfish anglers’ dreams are made of: a crappie measuring 17.75 inches, with a 15-inch girth, weighing just over 3 pounds. Panfish enthusiast Wyatt Williams caught – and released – that dream fish on a Twin Cities metro lake recently. Check out the details of his epic catch in an Instagram post here. While an…
The new regulations lower limits on specific waters as part of a Minnesota DNR initiative to protect and improve sunfish sizes.
Division of Wildlife asking for input with March 16 deadline.
June suckers are of particular concern due to their precarious status, but pike have the potential to impact sportfish in the lake such as walleye, white bass and yellow perch.
(www.usgs.gov)The Northern Pikeminnow Sport Reward Program pays people for catching pikeminnows on the Columbia and Snake rivers. One Washington state angler made a whopping $61,000 this past year – and next year, there’s an opportunity to make even more in the bid to reduce the numbers of these fish, which are voracious eaters and reportedly consume millions of young salmon and…
There were 565 registered anglers, including a good number of supervised youth. According to the DNR, five sturgeon harvested were male and one was a female, ranging from 46 to 62 inches long and 23 to 67 pounds in weight.
Partners with U.S. Forest Service and DNR for lake access projects within popular Chippewa National Forest.
Yes, burbot/eelpout will no longer be considered rough fish in Minnesota fishing regs in ’22.
Eight different species, 672,478 fish, weighing in at nearly 13.5 tons stocked at 123 locations across the state.
The record is “contingent upon genetic verification,” according to the DNR.
That’s the case with a lot of the younger walleye fisheries in the state now. Still, while word of a good walleye bite can lure ice anglers from afar, when a North Dakota lake is rumored to be kicking out nice perch, off-the-beaten-path waters can turn into small towns overnight.
So now, DNR wants Minnesotans to weigh in on how best to fund outdoor recreation and conservation.
Two common non-native aquatic plants in Wisconsin include the curly-leaf pondweed and Eurasian watermilfoil, which remain hardy in winter giving them an advantage over native aquatic plants.
The decision comes at a time when the Michigan DNR is implementing new measures to balance the walleye and yellow perch predator-prey relationship. For the complete story, click here. Categories: News, Walleye Tags: Perch, Saginaw Bay, Saginaw River, Walleye, Yellow perch
(Photo by Amanda Higgs/Cornell Department of Natural Resources, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences)Hudson River Estuary — Recently, while working on a two-year shortnose sturgeon (Acipenser brevirostrum) stock assessment in the mid-Hudson River tidewater, biologists caught a shortnose sturgeon that had been tagged 26 years ago in the same location. The fish had been tagged during the last population estimate…
(Michigan DNR photo)ROYAL OAK, Mich. — To understand how a 9-year-old boy became a champion of a fish that hasn’t been in Michigan for 85 years, we should first tell you about the love between the boy and his grandfather. When Declan O’Reilly was born, his granddad didn’t buy him a teddy bear but a stuffed fish. When Declan visits…
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