New Wisconsin Fishing, Hunting, Outdoor New and Outdoor Report Articles
3-23-2012
We posted many new columns, photos and news items important to the fields and streams of Wisconsin over the last two days. Until you’re familiar with traveling this new website allow me to serve as your guide and point you the places where you can find the new “stuff”. Also know that I get lost in the woods at least twice each deer season, so pack a lunch on this cyberspace journey.
The Wisconsin Conservation Congress and Dr. James Kroll will hold six town hall meetings throughout Wisconsin from April 16 to 21. The purpose is to gather ideas and solutions from sportsmen and women to help forge a new age for Wisconsin’s deer management practices. The entire release including where to look for a meeting near you is posted under “Deer Hunting” on this website.
DNR Biologist Ron Bruch sent us Wolf River walleye and sturgeon reports and straightens us out on the massive die-off of adult gizzard shad on the Winnebago lakes and Little Lake Butte des Morts. The die-off photo is awesome, as is the sturgeon photo that we post from Appleton spearer Jake Tschirgi as a reminder that it’s the work of Bruch’s team and so many sportsmen in the spring who make the hunt so good on the ice in February. These spear chuckers recognize the need for conservation and protection of a unique heritage. After watching them for years, I personally am recommending a spear and release season beginning in 2013 and asking Bruch for a job. See Bruch’s report under “Outdoor News”. If you want to read my personal experience spearing, connect with the column under “Humor”.
Speaking of spearing, don’t forget to read DNR secretary Cathy Stepp’s column posted Monday regarding the Lac du Flambeau tribe’s need for more walleyes, as stated by tribe head Maulson. That would mean less fish for you, the sport fisherman, to a 2-walleye limit on lakes being targeted. Read Stepp’s words under “Inland Fishing”. The issue apparently was resolved by Stepp and Maulson Wednesday. Read the DNR release posted 3-23-2012 under “Outdoor News"
Wisconsin’s Deer & Turkey Expo is now the 28th annual Field & Stream Deer & Turkey Expo. To find out everything about this extravaganza to be held March 30, 31 and April 1 at the Alliant Energy Center in Madison, connect with “Outdoor News” on this website.
A few weeks ago OWO posted a column and first- hand account on preparing for the upcoming turkey season including the need to site-in with a promise to bring you our hunt from Fennimore taken in 2011. That’s posted now under “Small Game and Upland Game”. There are few things worse for a turkey hunter than doing everything right and then blowing the shot. If I sound like an expert in that arena, I’m not. But I did pull a big Tom 400 yards to a 25 yard shot a few years ago and missed him clean. I had to write about that in a syndicated column. If you want some good advice on how not to miss, our expert, Tom Carpenter tells you how in the “March-April” issue of On Wisconsin Outdoors posted on our homepage. Just click on that issue from the scrolling line of papers and enjoy Tom’s perspective. We’ll bring you more turkey talk as things heat up. With the weather though, birds are already strutting around the state and mating activity I’m guessing is ahead of schedule. I heard a hen screaming that she had a headache in Waukesha County and some contented looking Jake near Wausau was smoking a cigarette. I’m just telling you what I hear and see.
Speaking of things moving fast, our steelhead expert is keeping his fingers on the pulse of the steelhead runs .Fish are on the Redds. See some beautiful photos and catch a few tips from Jerry Kiesow under “Flyfishing”
It’s antler searching time. A few years ago, I wrote a column using our black bear/whitetail guide near Washburn in Bayfield County, Mike Foss, a couple friends from Iowa and a DNR biologist. It’s a how-to with simple tips like carry binoculars to save time in the field checking out possible “sheds” and an educational piece offering some facts about antler growth. You might like the shed photos from Iowa and don’t forget to check out the advice on where to look concluding the column. It’s posted under “Deer Hunting”
Depending on where you’re sitting, ice is long gone or just-gone in Wisconsin. We have plenty of photos and guide advice just posted yesterday. I’d tell you how to catch fish personally but I don’t know how. Under “Inland Fishing”, see a great column by Guide Jeff Winters on early season fishing Big St.Germain and other area lakes and also tap into Guide Phil Schweik’s update on the transition from ice to open water walleyes in the Wausau area. See great hardwater perch and other panny photos as Schweik’s team says goodbye to winter. Guide Brian Settele is back with more big fish photos in the Milwaukee Harbor, this time posted under “Great Lakes Fishing”. Brian and all of our guides will be found often under Fishing Reports and Inland Fishing too and we will be linking to them often. See Ryan Kaltenbach’s 25 pound brown trout taken at the Summerfest Grounds also posted under “Great Lakes Fishing”. Last but not least, Price County Guides John Carlson and John Kleczewski show us the last fish taken through the St. Patty’s Day hardwater in Phillips before targeting those same fish from a boat posted under "Wisconsin Fishing Reports" . Tap into Fishing Reports.
Count on lots of new posts every week as we give our new site a personality. Right now it’s just “The Monster” but there are lots of guides and writers and conservation organizations asking to be a part. You’re more than welcome. Send your “stuff” boys and girls. On Wisconsin Outdoors will shine the spotlight on your little piece of Wisconsin.
Go Badgers. Go Warriors.
Dick