
WI Daily Update: Hunters ready for another spring turkey season
Wisconsin’s 2025 turkey hunting season starts on April 16. Here are more details about some great turkey hunting opportunities in the state.

Wisconsin’s 2025 turkey hunting season starts on April 16. Here are more details about some great turkey hunting opportunities in the state.

Walleye anglers were having good luck fishing below the dams here.

The 2023 DNR fyke netting and boom shocker survey of Shawano Lake and attached waters shows an improvement in the walleye population from 2018.
While still below state averages, relative abundance in Shawano, Washington,
A look at upcoming outdoors-related events from across Wisconsin published in the April 18, 2025, edition of Outdoor News.

A good friend gets a little testy whenever he starts talking about Wisconsin’s annual spring conservation hearings. Once he gets rolling, he starts blowing snot bubbles.
By then he’s zeroing in on the bull’s-eye

Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the April 18, 2025, edition of Wisconsin Outdoor News.

Marcy West, Wisconsin Natural Resources Board (NRB) member from Vernon County, announced at the board’s April 9 meeting that she is ending her position on the board.
West was nominated to serve on the

More than 100 sportsmen braved a snow and ice storm late Sunday, March 30, to attend a Hunter Nation meeting in Ashland, Wis., where issues ranging from wolf management to so-called “weather warfare” were discussed.<br

American anglers and other travelers into Canada who were fretting potential delays and added costs upon reaching border crossings can rest easier, at least for now. Here are the details.
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