PIT TAGGING: Our 2020 PIT Tagging program went extremely well. We added several new bodies of water and couple more people to our PIT Tagging crew of anglers. In total for 2020 alone we tagged 86 Muskies and we recaptured an additional 21 fish that had already been...
PIT TAGGING: Our Pit Tagging program has grown substantially this year. Our DNR biologists have liked the accurate data our taggers have supplied them and allowed us to add several more bodies of water to our Scientific Collectors Permit. Allowing us to Pit Tag on...
My name is Fischer Smith and 2020 was my best year ever on the water. I got my first 50 incher which was great. Last year I caught 33 muskies for 451pts to be the first ever National Juniors 17 and under release champion from our chapter. My Dad had got...
There have been several recaptures of tagged fish recently. Eric Weeks recapped his son Joel’s fish. Kim Weeks recapped a muskie that was tagged 4/19; recapped 5/19, she recapped it 10/20. It had grown 2.4” in length. Matt Ross recapped Jeffery Dutter’s...
Congratulations Cordy! Cordelia “Cordy” Wright – Junior Fry Featured with the 2nd largest fish of the year in the women’s category. Cordy and I went fishing after church on November 8, 2020. We had gone fishing the Sunday before, but did not have any luck. Cordy...
“So I was fishing with my grandpa on Lake Wissota and I was throwing a cannonball junior and someone else was fishing where we were going to fish so we decided to fish on the other side of the weeds. I saw a seagull on a log so I tried hitting it but I was nowhere...
The Board has been diligently exploring the potential of re-introducing a stocking program. Tom Riedel, Nick Brenner, Paul Gottwald, and Josh Rabska have been working with local fisheries biologists, rearing ponds, and 1st WI Muskies Inc. members to learn how the...
The Tamarack Island Lodge Raffle is also underway. The winner will receive one week of house keeping for two people (Valid September 1st 2020 – ice up 2020). Only 200 tickets will be sold and the drawing will take place on June 4th. We are also selling raffle tickets...
First WI Muskies Inc member Josh Rabska assisted DNR Biologist Joseph Gerbyshak last week. The DNR was doing a year of young Walleye study on Lake Wissota and Long Lake. After dark two electroshocking boats patrolled the shoreline electroshocking and netting walleye...