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Wisconsin fishing

News-desk briefs whose primary water is Wisconsin. California and Alaska also keep their category desks.

• US FishingWINews deskSeptember 14, 2026

  Anglers fund a Lake Superior brown-trout rescue: 120,000 fish to St. Croix Falls

  Dean Bortz in Outdoor News (Sept. 11): after DNR budget cuts threatened to dump Bayfield’s spring-hatched browns as 2–3 inch fingerlings in October, Friends of Wisconsin Fisheries paid to overwinter more than 120,000 Lake Superior browns at St. Croix Falls.

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• US FishingWINews deskSeptember 11, 2026

  Wisconsin shore anglers told to stock skein as Lake Michigan kings near the piers

  A Sept. 9 Press Times column says spawn-minded Chinook will hit Green Bay and Lake Michigan tributaries in the coming weeks — and shore casters should be curing fresh skein now from Algoma, Kewaunee, Marinette, and Sturgeon Bay cleaning stations.

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