The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources' water guards and conservation wardens are holding regional checks in Lake Winnebago to prevent the spread of aquatic invasive species. Three teams of water guards will be stationed at [...]
NEENAH – Blue-green algae washing ashore on the northern end of Lake Winnebago. It could potentially put people’s health at risk. Neenah Parks Department workers Ty Hegg and Connor Behm checked out the conditions at [...]
MADISON – Another quarter mile of breakwall will be built in Lake Poygan to protect its highly erodible wetlands and its water after the State Building Commission Wednesday approved a $378,000 project. The lakebed fronting [...]
Winnebago Waterways group continuing work Nearly two years ago, a group surveyed people about what issues they'd like to see improved around the Lake Winnebago System. Even though progress has been slow, the work of [...]
Anglers in Oshkosh soon will not be allowed to cast their lines from city boat launch docks. The Oshkosh Common Council voted 6-0 Tuesday to ban fishing from the city-owned docks. Instead of holding a [...]
By Paul A. Smith of the Journal Sentinel Fremont — Long before most boats were equipped with color graphs and virtually all fishermen carried smartphones, anglers had ways to determine the peak of the white [...]
The lake flies are back! And much needed in 2015. The Winnebago system has a low population of bait fish in 2015, and the lake fly hatch this year is critical to maintaining the game [...]
The 2015 Winnebago walleye tagging effort is in the books and the numbers are in. Walleye tagging efforts took place from 03/24/2015-04/22/2015 and fish were primarily collected during electrofishing surveys, but we also tagged some [...]
Our Oshkosh fisheries staff has been fielding quite a few questions about the progress of the walleye spawn and the impacts of lower water on this year’s spawn. As a result, Adam Nickel (walleye biologists) [...]
A couple weeks back I sent an email out about a tagging project that we are conducting with yellow perch in the Winnebago System. As part of that project I worked with our office [...]
