
Fall fishing tips – techniques to catch suspended autumn crappie
With water temps dropping, crappies are munching on minnows. Use your electronics to locate schools of suspended slabs, then find what triggers bites.

With water temps dropping, crappies are munching on minnows. Use your electronics to locate schools of suspended slabs, then find what triggers bites.

Conservation groups, sportsmen convince NRB members that there is no scientific information available to support Nov. 30 closure.

Early comments hint that JCRAR members might do just that when Wisconsin Legislature reviews new CWD rules during Oct. 1 hearing. And if they kill the CWD rules, short-term politics will again trump long-term science.

Antigo, Wis. — Mepps continues to ask hunters to save their squirrel tails for use in the company’s hand-tied, dressed hooks for their lures. The company has been recycling squirrel tails for over a half-century.

Testing also helps the DNR track the spread of CWD.

Wisconsin’s bowhunters hit the woods Sept. 15 for the state’s 114-day archery deer season, the fifth in our “new age” of deer hunting, as proclaimed by former Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Secretary Cathy Stepp.

North country lakes will begin experiencing turnover in coming weeks, but you still can enjoy quality fall angling before, during, and after this annual period.

Oak trees are valuable, particularly if a landowner is interested in managing land to benefit wildlife, but oaks require active management. To help landowners, the Aldo Leopold Foundation and its partner organization serving private woodland

State Sen. Steve Nass, co-chairman of the Legislature’s rules committee, has called for a committee vote on suspending regs, saying they’re too costly and cumbersome to implement this year.
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