
Ask a fisheries biologist: A look at the sauger, the walleye’s less famous cousin
Most Wisconsin anglers know about walleyes, but far fewer are familiar with the saugers, despite many similarities to their cousin, the walleye.

Most Wisconsin anglers know about walleyes, but far fewer are familiar with the saugers, despite many similarities to their cousin, the walleye.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), in partnership with the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), is offering a reward of up to $10,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of

Staff from DEC’s Bureau of Wildlife spent a day in early March working together to improve habitat for wildlife at French Creek Wildlife Management Area in Jefferson County.

It was almost like the good old days on Monday, April 13, in Vilas County when 103 citizens poured into the St. Germain Elementary School for Wisconsin’s annual spring fish and game hearings proctored by

Minnesota anglers are starting to feel it now.
The state’s walleye and pike opener is less than two weeks away. While many anglers will get out onto small bodies of water in the early

When the Musky Clubs Alliance of Wisconsin (MCAW) gifted $75,000 last year to the state Department of Natural Resources, it was with the intent of helping the agency stock more muskies in northeastern Wisconsin waters.

Wisconsin’s fisheries program is facing a projected $7.3 million budget shortfall in fiscal year 2027 (starting July 1).
This shortfall means forced proposed cuts that include up to 70% reductions in some fish stocking

Trout Unlimited’s initiative to improve trout habitat on the famed Batten Kill river is entering its seventh year in 2026, with several projects on tap on the Vermont and New York sides of the river

More bipolar weather this past week, but it didn’t seem to make any drastic changes to fish behavior. Finding some consistencies but also some slight adjustments. The crappies are increasing their appetites a little, though.
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