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Campfire Conversation:

Eric, Ana, and Loga welcome Harmon Marien into The Cabin to discuss fishing across Wisconsin, where

you have 15,000+ lakes, thousands of miles of streams and rivers, the Mississippi River, and two Great

Lakes from which to choose. Harmon fished competitively through his high school in Eagle River - an

area amidst the World’s Largest Chain of Interconnected Freshwater Lakes – and continues to in college.

Fishing teams among schools are growing significantly (which makes sense, since fish cluster in schools,

too.) Part of the conversation includes how the tournaments work and how they’re growing in the

state. We also discussed best times of the season to fish – depending in part on what types of fish you’re

after – and the benefits or lack thereof of various types of cover.

Some locations noted include “pools,” including Pools 7 and 8 in the Mississippi River in the La Crosse

area and the Winnebago Pool waters consisting of Lakes Poygan and Butte de Morts along the Fox

Waterway heading into Lake Winnebago, where sturgeon spearing is quite popular in winter. The waters

in Green Bay and Lake Michigan around the Door Peninsula and Sturgeon Bay offer unique world class

fishing opportunities. Chains of lakes include the largest in the Eagle River and St. Germain areas, as well

as the Hayward Lakes chains along with the Chippewa Flowage in northwestern Wisconsin. In central

Wisconsin, the chain of lakes around Waupaca and the Mendota/Monona/Waubesa/Kegonsa chain in

the Madison area offer excellent fishing, with smaller gems nearby like Hope Lake, Lake Ripley, and Rock

Lake in Lake Mills. Spring-fed Green Lake is another fishing gem, and with depth going down several

hundred feet, it is the deepest inland lake in the state. Along with Lake Winnebago, Lake Koshkonong

offers many benefits of shallow lake fishing, especially with many areas offering cover. The many

interior rivers of Wisconsin offer incredible fishing opportunities, with some of the best being Wolf River

in northeastern and central Wisconsin, the Brule River in northwestern Wisconsin (known as the “River

of Presidents” for its history), and the Kickapoo River in the Driftless Area, where trout streams abound.

Along the Great Lakes coastlines, areas like Bayfield on Lake Superior and ports at Sheboygan, Algoma,

Kewaunee, Port Washington, Racine, and Kenosha offer fantastic options for charter fishing and even

just fishing off of piers and breakwaters. The bottom line? If you want to fish, Wisconsin has practically

every option you could want in nearly every part of the state across every season.

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