Fishing
Wakeboats dominate Wisconsin spring hearings; a look at how voters responded to key questions
Wakeboats struck another tsunami of opposition during April’s Wisconsin conservation hearings, with more than 70% of voters favoring restrictions on the fun, but controversial, wave-generating boats.
Voters also supported a proposed ban on 360-degree
Ask a fisheries biologist: Wisconsin’s native, non-native species
This week, DNR Fish Biologist Max Wolter discusses our native species, and those that are not native.
For Wisconsin anglers, brook trout, lake trout, smallmouth bass, and bluegills are some of our most popular
Fly-fishing gear works just fine for warmwater species like bass, too
Largemouth bass fishing is synonymous with many things in America’s freshwater fishing culture.
Tricked out specialty boats that scream second mortgage. Tournament anglers dressed like walking advertisements. Slick, glossy magazines devoted to the craft.
Steve Griffin: Sometimes fishing is just “catch ’em then eat ’em”
A writer friend posted a Facebook dispatch in which he said he’d harvested a steelhead for the first time in many years.
He said it without any apparent shame, and there’s every reason to
Lake Mille Lacs guides, resorters in Minnesota feel effects of new walleye regulations
It’s been two months since the Minnesota DNR announced the 2024 walleye fishing regulations for Lake Mille Lacs. For the first time since 2020, the walleye season will begin with catch and release with no
Trip to Lake Erie’s Eastern Basin proves worthwhile for jumbo perch
After seeing favorable reports for years about the spring yellow perch runs in Lake Erie’s Eastern Basin, I finally got the chance to go on April 16 to see for myself.
Accompanied by fellow
Ron Schara: A brown trout fantasy that almost came true, but still eludes me
Feeling sorry for him, I handed him the fishing rod.
Oh my, yes. I can still remember that fateful moment frozen in a time warp of stupidity. What happened to my greatest angling fantasy
Streams of Thought: Some fun with numbers heading into Minnesota fishing opener
The Minnesota DNR’s always-reliable John Nordby, an ELS program specialist with the department’s License Center, issued an email earlier this week with the latest in angling license sales numbers.
Like clockwork, Nordby hits “send”
Mike Schoonveld: Fishing for food seals the deal in becoming a lifelong angler
I caught my first fish when I was a second grader when a family friend invited me to go fishing with him.
Geared up with cane poles and a can of worms, we
