Fishing

Staff Report Madison — State sportsmen who might be looking forward to the 2007 spring fish and game hearings will have to file their income taxes early – this year’s date is Monday, April 16.

By Tim Eisele Correspondent Madison — Preliminary registration totals show Wisconsin hunters registered 336,211 deer during the 2006 nine-day gun season, which was the state’s 156th deer season (there was no open season on deer

By Tim Eisele Correspondent Madison — The Sex-Age-Kill Audit Steering Committee wants to see the SAK audit report as soon as it is available and then talk to the panel of experts to ask questions

By Tim Eisele Correspondent Stevens Point, Wis. — The Conservation Congress has study committees on big game, small game, cold-water fisheries, turkeys, and many more. They are all important, but which is the most important?

Staff Report Madison — Wisconsin deer hunters made it through opening weekend with no gunshot fatalities and just three self-inflicted wounds reported. There were, however, several deaths that involved deer hunters, but were not related

Staff Report Madison — The final 2006 black bear kill is still being tallied, but one thing is clear already – Wisconsin hunters shot a lot of bears, and that has DNR bear biologists looking

DNR Report Madison — Early reports and preliminary numbers from the field indicate that Wisconsin waterfowl hunters are having a good season, and they should have good hunting opportunities in the remaining weeks of the

By Bill Parker Correspondent Roscommon, Mich. — Biologists and hunters have speculated for years about what impact managed hunting has on the American woodcock population. With the continental population in a slow but steady decline