Fishing
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Fish sticks: Improving lake habitat
Trees have been dropping naturally into Wisconsin lakes since the glaciers receded. Fallen trees provide shelter and feeding areas for a diversity of fish species and may also provide nesting and sunning areas for birds, turtles and other animals…
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Spring fisheries surveys in northern Wisconsin
Please note: We are in the process of improving how we provide our fisheries survey reports information. In the interim, we have moved the recent surveys from 2024-2025 that would normally be on this page to our general Fisheries Survey Reports page…
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Ceded Territory creel survey reports
The North District's Treaty Fisheries Assessment Team prepared the following creel survey reports.Other data and reportsOur fisheries biologists have made fisheries survey reports, trout survey and assessment reports, Ceded Territory reports, and…
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Fishing for Musky
The mystique of musky fishing is based on the fish's size, its moody behavior, the explosive strikes, and the challenge of boating one. The muskellunge has a reputation as the "fish of 10,000 casts." While it's true that a musky, especially a big…
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Classification of musky waters
Wisconsin muskellunge waters have been classified by two separate criteria: A rating of the overall angling quality, based on surveys and the observations made by fisheries biologists. The status of natural reproduction of muskellunge in the…