Inland Fishing Wisconsin
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2/20/2013 11:45:00 AMBy Professional Guide Kurt Justice With the exception of Saturday’s high pressure shut down, things have been picking up this past week out on the ice. Gamefish are lagging from our long early ice season, but even with these fish, a pickup of action has occurred. Perch: Good. Some of the best reports surprisingly are...
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2/20/2013 9:35:00 AMOP-ED by DNR Secretary Cathy Stepp I am taking this opportunity to set the record straight on our plans for the MacKenzie Environmental Education Center. Unfortunately, there has been a great deal of confusion about our intentions for the MacKenzie center in the days since we made our historic and exciting announcement about our plans for the futu...
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2/18/2013 4:35:00 PMBy John Luthens Mud Lake doesn’t sound like much when you look at it strictly on a first name basis. Even reading its statistics doesn’t invoke much more than a yawn: 165 acres with a maximum depth of around four feet. In the winter the dissolved oxygen content falls so low that the only fish to survive are mud minnows that...
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2/18/2013 3:40:00 PMWith reports of improving water clarity and nice weather today, we saw an increase in spearing effort on day 7 of the 2013 sturgeon spear fishery. The increase in effort led to a harvest of 25 fish from Lake Winnebago, including 4 fish that topped the scales at 100 pounds or more. The largest fish of the day was an 80.3” 139.8 pou...
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2/18/2013 2:35:00 PMThe 2nd weekend of the 2013 sturgeon spearing season is officially in the books, and spearers were more successful in the last two days than on opening weekend, even with the reduced effort. Spear fishermen and fisherwomen harvested 39 fish today lake-wide, which ties the mark set on opening day. That brings the total this weekend to 76...
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2/18/2013 2:15:00 PMThe second Saturday of the 2013 sturgeon spear fishery was much like opening day. Water clarity conditions did improve over the last week and we saw a resurgence of sturgeon spearers take to the ice today, but the total harvest was still relatively low (37 sturgeon taken today). The largest fish today (73.7” and 112.5 pounds) was ...
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2/18/2013 12:55:00 PMInput to help guide statewide panfish management plan Anglers and others are invited to share their expectations for fishing for panfish in Wisconsin at more than two dozen meetings across the state in February and March. “We want to hear from the public on what they want from their panfishing experience to help guide us in developing a sta...
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2/18/2013 12:00:00 PMPanfish have started to do the traditional February slowdown. It's been a tough bite for bigger fish but they are still possible to catch. Slow down and downsize a little. There are a lot of small crappie and gills being caught providing some fun action. Just remember that these are next year’s nice ones and most of them should be given a cha...
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2/15/2013 12:40:00 PMThis past week has been very good for all species of panfish. The crappies have been very aggressive. They are suspended in 10 to 16 feet of water about 2 to 4 feet off the bottom. Use your electronics to find them and then run plastics on tiny jigs like the Northland IMPULS mayfly and tapeworm in red and orange to pick up the aggressive feeders. ...
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2/14/2013 5:35:00 PMHappy Valentine’s Day to all of the sturgeon spearers and sturgeon enthusiasts out there! I know spearers would love to celebrate the harvest of a “big lady” sturgeon on Valentine’s Day, and that is just what Dale Jenkins did. Dale was thrilled to register his 74.6”, 119.0 pound female sturgeon at our Jim and Lin...
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2/14/2013 1:55:00 PMFebruary 13, 2013 Contacts: Rob Bohmann, 262-235-5825 or Kari Lee-Zimmermann, 608-266-0580 Poynette, WI. – The Wisconsin Conservation Congress (WCC) is pleased to learn that the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is exploring the creation of an outdoor skills recruitment and retention center which will focus o...
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2/14/2013 1:45:00 PMThe 5th day of the 2013 sturgeon spear fishery has come and gone with 15 fish being harvested from Lake Winnebago today. The number of fish harvested today is almost as many as Monday and Tuesday combined, and many spearers are reporting that water clarity is improving and they are able to see 2-4’ more than they were able to last weeke...
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2/13/2013 4:35:00 PMHalf the Upriver Lakes spearers harvested fish Editor's note: This release was updated at 4:35 p.m. to reflect spearing results available late this afternoon. OSHKOSH – By the time the Lake Winnebago system upriver lakes spearing season closed at 12:30 p.m. today, Feb. 12., 10 people had joined the “hundred-pounder club” by spea...
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2/13/2013 4:05:00 PMThe 4th day of the 2013 Sturgeon Spearing Season on the Winnebago System is in the books with a total harvest today of 7 sturgeon on Lake Winnebago and 26 fish from the Upriver Lakes. The North shore of Lake Winnebago continues to be quiet with no fish registered today at our Waverly Beach and Stockbridge Harbor locations. I was at Quin...
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2/11/2013 4:15:00 PMThe rain over the last 24-30 hours made for wetter conditions throughout Lake Winnebago and the Upriver Lakes, but spearers were still able to get out in search of the elusive, prehistoric sturgeon. Spearers harvested 21 fish from the Upriver Lakes and 9 fish from Lake Winnebago today, with the biggest fish (67.1”, 92.2 pounds) being ta...
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2/11/2013 2:35:00 PMThis was the condition of the ice on Winnebago as of Feb. 4, the Monday before opening of spearing. Note the open water along the west side. This is a result of the winds moving the ice in January.
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2/11/2013 2:15:00 PMWinnebago Sturgeon Spearing Report - Sunday February 10, 2013 The 2nd day of the 2013 sturgeon spear fishery was much like opening day, successful harvest on the Upriver Lakes and below average harvest on Lake Winnebago. There were 74 sturgeon harvested from the Upriver Lakes and 21 sturgeon harvested from Lake Winnebago today (attached docu...
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2/11/2013 2:05:00 PMOpening day a family fest of friendship - with big catches! The only thing more powerful than the 179-pound, 80-inch sturgeon wrestled out of Lake Winnebago by Sherwood’s Pete Vanderwielen on opening day of the 2013 Sturgeon Spearing Season was the undeniable bond among the families and their friends who filled the thousands of heated ice sh...
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2/11/2013 1:00:00 PMSturgeon spearing traditions were renewed over the last few days, as the 2013 Sturgeon Spear Fishery on the Winnebago System got underway. Opening day was one of mixed results, and for the most part went as predicted. Due to less than ideal ice conditions on Lake Winnebago and poor water clarity, the total harvest from Lake Winnebago wa...
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2/11/2013 12:50:00 PMPhotos by Diane Schauer “Ice shove on Winnebago the night of Jan. 19th. The 50+ mile an hour winds blew the ice from the west to the east shores of Lake Winnebago, creating 50-100 yards of open water along the west shore off Oshkosh. Until then, it looked like a good year for ice for sturgeon spearing. This on...
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2/11/2013 12:40:00 PMThe day spearers have been waiting for is finally here! Whether you’re out on the ice or at home, experience the excitement of opening day of the 2013 lake sturgeon season via today’s Sturgeon Week feature, How old is my sturgeon? Follow DNR’s Twitter links to photos and a warden ride along on Lake Winnebago and learn how biologis...
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2/11/2013 11:55:00 AMBy John Luthens We walked from the boat landing on Black Wolf Point and into a thick fog that rolled across the Lake Winnebago ice. Trucks swung around through the shoreline snow and passed as we pulled our sleds. Lights sprung from lighted shack doorways across the darkened ice and flags were raised from shanty rooftops. Across the pl...
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2/11/2013 10:05:00 AMFebruary 7, 2013 By: Bureau of Law Enforcement Frequently Asked Questions - February 8, 2013 Welcome to another special edition of a popular Warden Wire feature -- the Frequently Asked Questions. You may recall the several installments of FAQs - the Special Edition during the recent gun-deer season. Warden Wire again is publishing this special e...
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2/7/2013 5:10:00 PMToday, as thousands of years ago, winter spearing of lake sturgeon is as much about family and friends getting together to renew their traditions and pass them on to the next generation as it is about big fish. See and hear some of the stories in Sturgeon Week Day 5, Sturgeon Culture.
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2/7/2013 4:40:00 PMBy Professional Guide Dennis Walker BIG GREEN LAKE UPDATE; The Big snow storm has come and is now gone. We got 8 to 10 inches of snow on top of 5 to 6 inches of ice. It was all wet enough to soak up most of the snow. So now with the real cold weather we are now having everything is freezing up. We now have very good ice conditions. This weekend wi...