Fishing
Wisconsin Natural Resources Board reviews possible fish, wildlife rule changes
The Wisconsin Natural Resources Board (NRB) approved statements of scope to start the process of drafting new hunting and fishing regulation questions to be presented at the 2025 spring hearings in April.
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Ice or no ice, Michigan’s Saginaw Bay boasts good winter fishing
I’m not sure if I ever fished open water for walleyes in January. I know I fished in Lake Erie several times in late December. I fished the Saginaw River in December but don’t remember
New York Fishing Report – January 3-10, 2025
Yellow perch are showing in the inner Buffalo Harbor and have readily been hitting live minnows.
Northern Wisconsin Fishing Report – January 3, 2025 – video
What anglers are catching here – and where they’re catching ’em.
Michigan Outdoor News Fishing Report – January 3, 2025 – video
Steelhead fishing has still been good. As for the ice-fishing action …
State record saugeye earns ‘fish of the year’ from Illinois
Illinois fishermen begin 2025 the same way they begin most years – confident this will be the year someone finally catches a largemouth bass that tops the most coveted state record.
Alas, 2024 began
Wisconsin Mixed Bag: Early catch-and-release inland trout season to run Jan. 4 through May 2
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
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
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
