Lake Profile

Oconto County’s Boulder Lake, due to its location within the Nicolet National Forest, had been surveyed every two to four years since the early 2000s as part of the DNR/U.S. Forest Service contract fisheries program,

“The capture rate of muskellunge – 0.4 per net night – was below the average for a lake of this classification, but above the 25th percentile,” DNR fisheries biologist Evan Sirianni wrote in his survey

Pike Lake, an impounded drainage lake in eastern Marathon County, receives water primarily from Rice Lake Creek on the north shore. The outlet stream at the south end drains into the Plover River. A small

The DNR fisheries team out of the Woodruff office surveyed Big Saint Germain Lake in 2021. A previous survey had been done in 2011. Big Saint stands as one of Vilas County’s most popular fishing

Imagine a Northwoods lake with crystal-clear water, almost 15 miles of undeveloped shoreline and a varied fishery that includes everything from smallmouth bass to walleyes to muskies to brown and lake trout.
One of

As the largest lake in a metropolitan area of more than 400,000 people, Madison’s Lake Mendota draws plenty of anglers year-round.
There are a number of reasons for that, including a diverse fishery that

The Park Falls DNR fish management team ran fyke netting and electro-fishing surveys in fall 2011 and spring 2012 to assess the abundance and size structure of fish populations in Cranberry Lake.
They set

During seven days of fyke (trap) netting that spring, the team caught 1,191 adult walleyes that were marked with a fin clip. Two crews then sampled at night with electro-fishing boats and captured 588 adult

In May 2021, the Woodruff DNR fisheries team conducted a fyke netting and electrofishing survey on Amber Lake (recently renamed from Squaw Lake) west of Minocqua off Hwy. 70 to assess bass and panfish. Six