Column: Kevin Naze
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Wild Things: New Fishing, Hunting Licenses Ready
Hunters and anglers can now purchase 2024-25 licenses via the state’s Go Wild site (gowild.wi.gov/), or in-person at one of 16 locations in Door and Kewaunee counties. Door County businesses that offer in-person license buying include the Forestville One Stop Mobil; Brussels General Store; PJ’s of Door County; JP Express near Carlsville; and Howie’s Tackle […]
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Wild Things: Wisconsin For The Win
Door County is known across North America for its giant smallmouth bass, and the anglers who know how to catch them. One of those who’s very good at it, guide Adam Rasmussen of Sturgeon Bay, topped a field of 151 pros to win the Mercury B.A.S.S. Nation Qualifier at Lake Eufaula in Alabama earlier this […]
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Early Start to Open Water Fishing
Look to hook up in Green Bay, Lake Michigan or tributaries If weeks of warnings weren’t enough to deter anglers hungry to hunt offshore whitefish,three separate rescues carried out on lower Green Bay’s east shore Thursday should getthe word out to stay off the ice.Brown County and Coast Guard airboats were used to get nine […]
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WILD THINGS: Going, Going, Gone?
High temperatures well above freezing this week are expected to stick around into early February, potentially spoiling any chance for a deep-water ice fishery this winter. The January thaw – exacerbated by a late freeze-up, strong winds during a below-zero stretch mid-month, and ongoing ice-breaking operations – may be enough to spoil the opportunity to […]
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WILD THINGS: Long Wait for ‘Safe’ Ice
Our first below-zero low temperatures of the season are expected Sunday through Tuesday, but ice anglers shouldn’t celebrate just yet. That’s because the brutal cold snap is expected to be accompanied by very strong west winds that’ll prevent good ice formation in the deep water, instead creating large waves and strong currents that will bust […]
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WILD THINGS: Winter’s Coming, But Only on Calendar
Winter is coming Thursday, Dec. 21, but only on the calendar. If the long-term forecast is accurate, those of us who love ice fishing, skating, sledding, skiing, snowshoeing or snowmobiling will need to be patient. Highs in the low 40s late this week and mid- to upper 30s the next seven days or so mean […]
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WILD THINGS: Giving Thanks for the Outdoors
There’ll be plenty of leftovers after the hunt One of the hardest parts about being selective while hunting is answering the question, “Did you get your buck?” Those in the know understand that many hunters would rather take an antlerless deer than drop a young buck with its first or second rack, but it doesn’t […]
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Wild Things: Cooler Air Arrives For Gun Deer Hunt
Thousands of acres of corn could influence what hunters see – or don’t see – while on stand in fields and forests opening day of the gun deer hunting season Saturday. Statewide, about one-third of more than 3 million acres of corn planted for grain was still standing early this week. Locally, less than half […]
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Wild Things: Blaze Orange to Color the Woodlands
Wisconsin’s most anticipated opening morning – the November gun deer season – is just eight toss-and-turn nights away. While a far cry from its glory days of the 1990s when it attracted nearly 700,000 license-buying men, women and youths, the nine-day hunt is still the granddaddy of all, luring more than 550,000 people to dress […]
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Wild Things: Early Snow a Wakeup Call to Hunters
If there was any doubt that the gun deer hunting season was just over the next ridge, a surprise Halloween snowfall erased it. Whitetail fanatics love the white stuff, and while it wasn’t expected to last, bow and crossbow hunters on stand late Tuesday got an early treat to aid sightings and tracking. Through the […]