
WI Daily Update: FFS shows us some fish just don’t want to bite
Forward-facing sonar has shown anglers that there are walleyes in shallow water even in the dead of summer. Tim Lesmeister explains what else we’re learning about those fish.
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Forward-facing sonar has shown anglers that there are walleyes in shallow water even in the dead of summer. Tim Lesmeister explains what else we’re learning about those fish.

“My ashes can become wildflowers, the bunnies will eat the flowers, the foxes will eat the bunnies, and I too can become a fox,” Professor Irv Korth lectured when I took Integrated Resource Management from

For over 30 years, the Upper Midwest-based Loon Project has been banding and studying the birds. Walter Piper, a professor at Chapman University in California, started songbirds in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula in 1992, but had

Tim Lesmeister placed cameras on his downrigger balls to see how lake trout reacted to his lures, and the results caused him to change how he fishes baits for a lot of different species. Lesmeister

You’ll always find more otter puns than actual otters if you go looking for either.
Just google “otter puns” and you’ll find lists of 37, 40 or even 200-plus otter puns, jokes and one-liners.

A dredging project on the Mississippi River aims to boost fish and waterfowl habitat. The effort is on Lake Onalaska. Listen here for details.

Few conversations are more futile than trying to persuade someone to eat a fish that’s scarred by a virus, parasite, bacteria or other nasties.
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) recognizes that challenge,

Spring drumming surveys from the states that still conduct such surveil lance indicate a slight decline from last year, following the traditional eight- to 11-year cyclical pattern. Here’s a closer look at what primary ruffed

So we have a little news for this spot this week, followed by more submissions on short-eared does. I’m not sure what I started here when running the first bit on short-eared does, but apparently
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