Fishing for Fishing Information?
3-14-2013
In the wake of another fabulous sturgeon spearing season, despite bad ice and bad water clarity, the DNR is looking to improve one of the main reasons we find so many large fish available today after some precarious years not long ago. A new online registration process is now available for those interested in taking part in the Sturgeon Guard program. For the past 36 years, the program has relied on volunteers to help guard the prehistoric fish from being harvested as they head up rivers to spawn.
“Anyone interested in volunteering can go online and pick the time, date, and preferred location where they’d like to volunteer,” said April Dombrowski, DNR conservation warden supervisor at Oshkosh, who headed up the effort to create the online system. “This is really great for the volunteers to see what opportunities are available to come out and help protect the fish.” Read the entire story on this website under “Inland Fishing”.
Are you nuts about fishing?
Whatever species you want to fish for in Wisconsin, the 2013 Wisconsin Fishing Report is now available and ready to help you catch your fancy. This year, the annual 16-page compilation of fishing forecasts is organized by species. The forecasts, submitted by Department of Natural Resources fisheries biologists, share information about the number and sizes of fish they found during population surveys on a wide range of waters across the state.
“Pick your fish species and find where you want to go,” says Karl Scheidegger, the DNR fisheries biologist who leads fisheries outreach efforts for DNR and edited the publication. Find out how to access the report and read the details under “Inland Fishing”.
Several important topics will be discussed at the Lake Michigan Fisheries Forum, April 6, 2013 in Cleveland, Wisconsin at Lakeshore Technical College (1290 North Avenue, Cleveland, Wisconsin 53015). The forum is coordinated by a citizen-based group charged to review and provide input into the fishery goals, objectives and management plans for Lake Michigan.
This meeting will include discussion of the current status of the forage populations in Lake Michigan, status of the Lake Michigan Fishery, Chinook salmon stocking distribution and review of the Department’s Lake Michigan Integrated Fisheries Management Plan. Read the details under “Inland Fishing”.
In addition to our weekly columns posted under firearms and inland fishing by Robb Manning, Jerry Kiesow, and John Luthens, some of the photos this week from central Wisconsin submitted by top guide Phil Schweik in central Wisconsin and top guide Dave Hraychuck in northwest Wisconsin really catch the eye. Here are two, although you’ll have to go to North Dakota to find Hraychuck’s perch. Schweik mainly stalks the Wisconsin and lakes around Wausau.
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| Dave Hraychuck with a nice day's catch of perch | Another happy Phil Schweik client with some obese gills taken on the Wisconsin River system near Wausau. |
Find the rest of the photos and reports and stories from other parts of Wisconsin under “Inland Fishing”. Don’t forget “Outdoor News” this week, and we are trying to post more firearms media releases from the gun manufacturers. Connect with “Firearms”.
Thanks too for connecting with On Wisconsin Outdoors.
Dick Ellis