Northern Wisconsin Fishing Report – January 3, 2025 – video
Site Staff
January 3, 2025
What anglers are catching here – and where they’re catching ’em.
Fishing
Wisconsin Mixed Bag: Early catch-and-release inland trout season to run Jan. 4 through May 2
Staff and News Reports
January 3, 2025
Wisconsin’s early catch-and-release inland trout season using artificial lures only started Jan. 4 and runs through May 2 on designated streams. Anglers are encouraged to reduce their reel and handling time with the fish as
Perch resurgence on Green Bay? Anglers seeing best catches in years
Kevin Naze
January 3, 2025
Outside of some decent catches of “jumbos” from shore and small boats around the Wisconsin-Illinois border, Lake Michigan’s yellow perch fishery has declined significantly from its peak that came more than a half-century ago.
Wisconsin DNR study shows reducing bag limits was ‘huge success’ in goal to grow bigger panfish
Tim Eisele
January 3, 2025
A new study of experimental panfishing regulations found that reducing bag limits could improve panfish sizes.
The Wisconsin DNR began a study of experimental panfish regulations on 94 lakes in 2016 to see if
Fixing ice-fishing mistakes – video
Site Staff
January 2, 2025
We all make mistakes when it comes to ice fishing (pros and rookies alike), but here are a few basic mistakes to avoid.
Commentary: In Congress’ final days, wildlife, outdoor recreation legislation sent to president
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Report
January 2, 2025
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers, on Dec. 23, celebrated the advancement of two bills a week ago passed unanimously by the U.S. Senate following their passage by the House of Representatives earlier this year: the America’s
Farm bill extension gets cold reception from conservation groups
Tori McCormick
December 31, 2024
Several national conservation groups say Congress wasted a golden opportunity to do right by hunters, anglers, and conservationists by passing a federal farm bill extension that doesn’t include billions in conservation funding from the Inflation
Wisconsin NRB takes up Minocqua chain, Lake Superior fish rules
Tim Eisele
December 26, 2024
Wisconsin Natural Resources Board (NRB) members approved an extension of the emergency rule to allow continued limited harvest of walleyes on the Minocqua Chain of Lakes in Oneida County for the remainder of the 2024-25
Fish biologists, charter school students tackle muskie, pike project on Wisconsin’s Spider Lake
Dave Zeug
December 25, 2024
What do charter school students, Wisconsin DNR fish biologists, financial donors, muskies, and northern pike have in common?
A new study taking place on Spider Lake in Sawyer County that will take a closer
