Roger's Outdoor Notes

FISHING NEWS:    Saturday morning I checked both the West and East Twin rivers and found the following. The West Twin at Shoto was running really fast and had a few strikes by steelheads, but none I saw were caught in the time I was there. Water is muddy and it’s really hard to control your lines. As for the East Twin at Mishicot the water is not as muddy and it is still running really fast. Some of the fishermen had some strikes and I listened to one fly fisherman’s line snap and it sounded like a .22 casing going off. The fishermen were from Milwaukee and Eau Claire and I wished them the very best of luck in catching something. It’s really good to see people who are still enjoying the sport of fly fishing for steelhead and coming across the state to do something they enjoy doing.

Brown trout and walleye continued to be caught on the Menominee River in the northeast. There has been lots of fishing pressure on the Wolf and Fox Rivers, but not many reports of success so far. Anglers on the Fox River reporting water temperatures of 38 degrees below the De Pere Dam. Anglers have been out casting for walleyes below the dam with little success being reported so far.

NEW PANFISH REGULATIONS have taken effect on 92 Wisconsin lakes on April 1^st.  Three different experimental bag limits are being applied to 93 lakes to determine which is the most efficient at improving panfish size.  The new rules will be evaluated to determine whether they are improving panfish size as well as whether anglers continue to support the changes.