It's Opening Weekend

If you like to fish the inland lakes of Wisconsin this is a big weekend for you. Saturday is the first Saturday in May and that is the opener for all game fish. That means you can fish Blackhawk, Govenor Dodge, Redstone, Yellowstone or one of the other lakes in SW Wisconsin and keep a walleye, bass, or northern if you catch it.

If you live in our area and fish the Wisconsin or Mississippi rivers you really don’t care about the opener too much. Both of our rivers are open year round so we can catch and keep game fish any time we fish. On the Mississippi we are either fishing in Iowa/Wisconsin Boundary waters or Minnesota/Wisconsin Boundary waters. The only place on the entire Mississippi in our area that is governed by the Inland Waters rules is Cold Springs. Since Cold Springs is inside the railroad tracks, it is officially an inland water and has a closed season on game fish.

We have no restrictions if we fish on the rivers or in the river bottoms which are considered part of the river. Even the streams that run into the Wisconsin are open up to the first highway bridge, so our possibilities are nearly endless. Just another of the benefits of living in Southwest Wisconsin.

Dan Bomkamp - Author & Host of "How's Fishing"

http://www.myoakpro.com/

One of Dan's foreign exchange students with a couple walleyes.