Vander Logt Outdoors

FISHING NEWS:  Wisconsin’s general inland game fish season opens this Saturday and fisheries biologists say anglers can expect to find some trophy potential fish as well as abundant numbers of popular game species this year. The Musky season opens on Southern Wisconsin waters while on Northern waters the season opens May 27 to give Musky additional time to complete spawning. Smallmouth bass are also divided into Northern and Southern zones with catch and release only in the North until June 17.  As for the fishing reports for this week it was a bit tough weather wise and the bite was difficult. Rivers across the state are still running high. Trout streams are in the similar shape, but should be in better shape by Saturday.  On the Lake Michigan side of the state, some boaters are landing brown trout, pike and a few walleyes. In the Oconto area they were landing a few smallmouths, northern pikes and a few walleyes. Brown County anglers saw an increase in white bass and freshwater drum, with Door County reporting a slight increase in night walleye bite. Boaters out of Sheboygan and Port Washington saw occasional catches of brown and lake trout. Same can be said about the fishing in the Milwaukee, Racine and Kenosha lake fronts. It looks like the steelhead fishing up and down the lakeshore has dropped off.  DO NOT FORGET THAT THE CUB RADIO SPORT FISHING REPORTS WILL BE STARTING ON MAY 26^TH, so tune in for Capt. Bruce’s reports.