Wisconsin Fishing Report – September 15, 2025
Wisconsin DNR Reports
September 15, 2025
Anglers targeting yellow perch had great success fishing here in around 20 feet of water using live nightcrawlers.
Fishing
Ask a fisheries biologist: Wisconsin’s Namekagon River trout fishery is strong
Max Wolter Wisconsin DNR Fish Biologist
September 15, 2025
In July, the Hayward and Brule DNR fish teams, the National Park Service and Wild Rivers Conservancy ran an electrofishing survey on the Namekagon River near Tag Alder Road.
The 2025 numbers were record
State Roundup: Does Wisconsin put enough emphasis on catching poachers?
Dean Bortz
September 15, 2025
Outdoor News recently ran a story from a Boone and Crockett Club research project that, at first cut, tells us as few as 4% to 5% of all fish and game poaching violations are discovered
Alliance promotes outdoors activities in Wisconsin’s Oconto County
Greg Seubert
September 13, 2025
A coalition of sportsmen’s groups in Oconto County, Wis., is working together toward a common goal of introducing kids to the outdoors in a county that provides plenty of opportunities to do just that.
Northern Wisconsin Fishing Report – September 12, 2025 – video
Site Staff
September 12, 2025
Big-time drop in water temps making things interesting for anglers.
Wisconsin loses conservationists Carl Batha, Carol Murphy
Tim Eisele
September 12, 2025
Wisconsin lost two hard-working conservationists in August, as Carl Batha, 78, and Carol Murphy, 64, passed away.
Batha, of Platteville, retired from the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) as a wildlife ecologist, and was
Wisconsin Mixed Bag: Natural Resources Board meeting Sept. 24 in Madison
Staff and News Reports
September 12, 2025
The Natural Resources Board (NRB) will meet in-person at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 24, in room G09, State Natural Resources Building (GEF 2), 101 South Webster Street, Madison.
PFAS-related consumption advisories issued for ducks, deer and fish in parts of Wisconsin
Tim Eisele
September 12, 2025
The alphabet soup of chemical pollutants (DDT, CWD, VHS, HPA, PFAS) just expanded with the release of a consumption advisory for mallards and wood ducks harvested from Green Bay due to the contamination of per-
Persistence, big bucktails, and the right window can turn September into trophy muskie season
Jeremy Smith
September 11, 2025
Muskie – the fish of 10,000 casts. With a pseudonym as such, one can only assume that it’s difficult to catch. In fact, they’re often revered as the most challenging fish to catch in freshwater.
