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Fish Like a GIRL
This column was inspired by a recent discussion at the Lakeland Times office. Brian Jopek and I were just shooting the bull over how expensive everything is these days. We were the “old salts” in the discussion, which included staffers Trevor Greene, Brett LaBore and Mikey Rottier.
Preliminary 2024 tribal harvest data available
The Department of Natural Resources (DNR) recently released tribal fish harvest data for the 2024 spearing season. In the spring of each year, the tribes exercise their treaty-given rights to harvest fish by spearing in lakes in the Ceded Territories. The tribal harvest season begins shortly after ice-out. The six …
The Lake Where You Live
I came down to the pier on a recent mid-June evening to enjoy one of the year’s latest sunsets. I brought my fly rod, hoping to do more than just practice casting, ideally to find some surface-feeding panfish that I might entice to take an imitation insect fashioned out of …
Great Lakes Aquatic Invasive Species Landing Blitz coming to Northwoods lakes and flowages
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is using a “landing blitz” to remind boaters to help stop the spread of invasive plants and animals in our waters.
Fish Like a GIRL
This is Pollinator Week, a time to celebrate the little critters that provide a third of all of our food. It is interesting to think about — one of every three bites of food we put in our mouths is made possible by pollinators.
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The Lake Where You Live
We live in a connected world. We’re connected by technology. By transportation. By communication. By our basic humanity.
UMBC anglers rise to the challenge on Lake Mohawksin
Lake Mohawksin in Tomahawk is an early stop for not only the Wisconsin Bass Team Trail (WBTT) but the Upper Midwest Bass Challenge (UMBCS) Central Division.
Fish Like a GIRL
One thing most non-tournament anglers don’t understand about fishing tournaments is how much of a mental game it is. When we break it down, it is really us against an animal which is said to have a brain the size of a pea. But I cannot count the number of …
The Lake Where You Live
I often wonder how turtles evolved the practice of laying eggs far inland from the lakes they inhabit, so that their newly hatched young have to struggle their way back to the water, most of them dying of the way from predators or desiccation.
Fish Like a GIRL
By now, most readers know that for me summer means not only fishing and tournaments but also gardening, which I can now do on a little bit bigger level than I could when all I had was a small balcony garden. Last year was a complete trial year for me …
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The Lake Where You Live
If you live on a lake and you’re also an angler, you surely have a couple of friends you also call fishing buddies. I have a few, two of them brothers who live about four hours away, one (Charles) who also owns a seasonal place here on Birch Lake, and …
Fish Like a GIRL
As I write this, our first big tournament of the year is in the books. Spring tournaments are always dicey. It can be hard to know what stage the fish are in, and that can also change pretty quickly. It also changes from place to place, lake or flowage.
Four new counties have CWD in wild deer herd
Department of Natural Resources (DNR) deer herd health specialist Erin Larson provided the members of the Natural Resources Board (NRB) with an update on chronic wasting disease (CWD) numbers from the 2023 deer season during the group’s May meeting.
The Lake Where You Live
“One gray night it happened; Jackie Paper came no more…” The lesson of the Peter Paul and Mary song “Puff the Magic Dragon” is that little boys grow up, and in some ways it’s sad.
‘The fish of 10,000 casts’: Anglers begin pursuit of the elusive musky
This Saturday, May 25, is the opening day of musky season in Northern Zone which includes the Northwoods.
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