Wisconsin’s statewide fishing report on Aug. 15, 2025
Staff Report
August 15, 2025
Fishing action remains steady across most of the state. Here’s the Wisconsin fishing report from across the state on Aug. 15, 2025.
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Urban areas in Wisconsin struggling to control deer numbers
Larry Polenske
August 15, 2025
The city of West Bend donated 2,400 pounds of ground venison to The Full Shelf Food Pantry this year. The venison came from 83 deer shot by United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) sharpshooters as
Video: Scouting for whitetails after storm alters years of intel
Eric Morken
August 14, 2025
This summer has featured some destructive storms in parts of the Upper Midwest.
Eric Morken has bowhunted a river-bottom system for whitetails for seven years and spends a weekend scouting out there in
Agencies testing ‘bait platforms’ to catch Asian carp in Pool 8 of the Mississippi River
Allie Weill / U.S. Geological Survey
August 13, 2025
Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey, in collaboration with the Minnesota and Wisconsin departments of natural resources, will install floating bait platforms and monitoring equipment to test a new method for capturing invasive Asian carp.<br
North Dakota places new restrictions on nonresident waterfowlers at the urging of resident hunters
Paul Wait
August 13, 2025
Ron Nerva realized his out-of-state waterfowl-hunting plans were sliced in half Aug. 1. That’s when he read about changes to North Dakota’s rules for nonresident hunters.
Nerva, a waterfowler from Tomahawk, Wis., has owned
Commentary: What can ranching tell us about wolves and whitetails?
Russ Mason
August 12, 2025
Although wolves are a hot topic from the Pacific Northwest to the Great Lakes, reintroduced wolves in Colorado (and to a lesser extent Mexican wolves in Arizona) have been getting the most attention. Mostly, the
Star Watch: Voyager 1
Bob Drieslein
August 11, 2025
Designed and built by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California, Voyager 1 is now the farthest human-made object from Earth. Wikipedia.org reports that as of May 2025, this spacecraft was 15.5 billion miles away
Hunting Dogs: Here’s why two are sometimes better than one
Mark Morrison
August 11, 2025
If you’re a frequent bird hunter who targets waterfowl or upland birds, having a pair of game dogs is always better than one. If watching a single dog is a pleasure, then two must be
Wisconsin Wardens at Work: ‘Snake charmers’ slip in to steal ginseng
Jerry Davis
August 10, 2025
Two Wisconsin protected organisms were involved – one being used against the other in this case. The person who alerted the wardens was a renter of the land, not the landowner. Neither game warden was
