Wisconsin Fishing Report – July 1, 2024
Wisconsin DNR Reports
July 1, 2024
Anglers have seen consistent catches of chinook salmon and rainbow trout here.
Fishing
Dean Bortz: Here’s how the Wisconsin DNR fish teams conduct their lake surveys
Dean Bortz
June 24, 2024
I recently received a hand-written letter to the editor from one of our regular readers in Two Rivers who checked in with a question.
His question: “Why in the world would anyone care about
Trout Unlimited trout school helps Wisconsin students learn ‘on the fly’
Greg Seubert
June 24, 2024
Almost 50 years ago, Dan Harmon III had a vision of introducing people to the sport of trout fishing.
Harmon, a Trout Unlimited member from Oshkosh, Wis., who passed away last year at age
Patrick Durkin: Registering nonmotorized recreational ‘assets’ makes sense in Wisconsin
Patrick Durkin
June 24, 2024
Those of us with long memories perked up in April when voters at Wisconsin’s annual conservation hearings supported registering nonmotorized recreational “assets,” which often go adrift or are left stranded on weak ice.
Imagine
Kletsch dam fish passage opens 25 miles of Wisconsin’s Milwaukee River
Larry Polenske
June 22, 2024
The completion of the Kletsch dam fish passage in Glendale, Wis., opens 25 miles of the Milwaukee River north to Grafton, allowing fish to freely travel farther upriver now from Lake Michigan.
In addition,
Sturgeon running up the Milwaukee River in Wisconsin, but no spawning fish discovered yet
Larry Polenske
June 22, 2024
While fish swimming within a resuscitated lake sturgeon population continue to make a spring run up the Milwaukee River, the local fisheries crew has yet to see evidence of spawning.
Wisconsin Department of Natural
Wisconsin Mixed Bag: Deer season framework, spring hearing results on tap for NRB June 26 in Green Bay
Staff and News Reports
June 21, 2024
Wake boats, the 2024 deer season framework, and results of DNR and Conservation Congress spring hearing advisory question voting are just three topics Natural Resources Board (NRB) will field when it meets in-person at 8:30
Ask a Fisheries Biologist: A look at Wisconsin’s freshwater shrimp
Max Wolter Wisconsin DNR Fish Biologist
June 21, 2024
I have talked with many anglers who have spent time fishing lakes in North Dakota and South Dakota. They often return crowing about some of the fisheries built there, with a prey base of ‘freshwater
Northern Wisconsin Fishing Report – June 21, 2024 – video
Site Staff
June 21, 2024
A report on the bite for the Hayward area lakes, Chequamegon Bay and Lake Superior.
