Northern Wisconsin Fishing Report – June 20, 2025 – video
Site Staff
June 20, 2025
With the heat, time to take advantage of that early-morning bite. Smallmouth bass are piling up and the top-water game is on.
Fishing
Wisconsin, Minnesota DNRs tag adult walleyes on St. Louis River
Joe Shead
June 19, 2025
The Minnesota and Wisconsin departments of natural resources worked together to tag more than 13,000 adult walleyes on the St. Louis River this spring. The river forms part of the border between the two states.
Beat the lake chaos with a deeper understanding of river fishing
Joe Albert
June 15, 2025
It’s easy to find solitude on the lake in the spring. Ditto the fall, especially as the calendar flips closer to winter. But summer? Better be prepared to either deal with the traffic resulting from
Part one of Ernest Hemingway’s “Big Two-Hearted River”
Ernest M. Hemingway
June 14, 2025
Editor’s note: For subscribers searching for some leisurely reading during the long days of summer, Outdoor News is reprinting a seminal piece of American literature. Ernest Hemingway’s “Big Two-Hearted River” marks its centennial in 2025,
Flop of a fishing trip becomes quest for Lucky ‘Stones’ from a sheephead
Joe Shead
June 13, 2025
I recently renewed an old childhood tradition of fishing the white bass spawning run in central Wisconsin.
Picture it: You’ve got Lake Winnebago, which is about the size of Minnesota’s Lake Mille Lacs, plus
Patrick Durkin: Fishing’s rituals, routines build friendships
Patrick Durkin
June 13, 2025
I only like to go fishing when I’m alone or with somebody. But I’d rather fish alone than go with just anybody.
After all, few situations are more boring or annoying than being confined
Wisconsin sportsmen will miss one-of-a-kind advocate Corky Meyer
Dean Bortz
June 9, 2025
Anyone who has ever attended any public gathering on any topic related to conservation or public resource management in Wisconsin likely heard Corky Meyer speak.
Whether it was a gathering called by the Natural
Nicholas Miofsky earns Wisconsin’s Shikar-Safari Club International warden of the year award
Tim Eisele
June 7, 2025
Nicholas Miofsky, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) conservation warden supervisor in Milwaukee, received the 2024 Shikar-Safari Club International Wildlife Officer of the Year Award.
DNR Chief Conservation Warden Casey Krueger presented the
Clear or dark water for muskies today? Here’s how to choose
Steve Heiting
June 7, 2025
Perhaps the biggest question a muskie angler faces each morning is which lake he should fish. Certainly he should consider the lakes that have been producing for him lately, as well as where he historically
