Join us for important and informative updates at our chapter meeting on January 14, 2025
Our 2025 meetings start with an important and timely topic, the future of Wisconsin’s early inland trout season– that’s the one many of you will have enjoyed when we meet. The DNR is proposing to shorten the early season, allow the harvest of trout during the season, and start the regular season earlier. Click here for a summary of the proposals.
Some members have expressed concern over the proposal. Perhaps those concerns might be expressed as: The early season is working just fine. Why fix what ain’t broke?
Bradd Sims, the DNR’s Stream and River System Biologist, will discuss the DNR proposal and bring us up to date on other trout news. One of Bradd’s duties as the System Biologist is to direct the inland trout program.
SWTU is happy to welcome Bradd. He was the long time biologist for several SW WI Counties and was responsible for some of our best and favorite waters, including the Big Green and the Blue River watershed. Due to many vacancies in the fish program, Bradd helped to manage just about all the streams in this neck of the woods at one time or another. He always did all he could for our coldwater resources. Jim Hess and he collaborated on a couple of great workdays on the Steiner Branch, a wonderful brook trout stream near Yellowstone State Park.
More about Bradd: He has worked as a fisheries biologist with the Wisconsin DNR for 26 years. Currently he is the stream and river systems biologist with the bureau of Fisheries Management out of Madison. Prior he spent 23 years as a fisheries biologist out of the Dodgeville office working in the Driftless Area where much of his time was devoted to the management of streams and rivers. When Bradd is not working he is spending time with his wife and two sons enjoying many of natural resources in Southwest Wisconsin.
We meet on Tuesday, January 14 at Schwoegler’s on Grand Canyon Drive. Bradd’s presentation will start about 7 with dinner and drinks available starting at 5:30.
Schwoegler’s Lanes, 444 Grand Canyon Dr., Madison, WI 53719
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Last Updated: January 6, 2025 by Drew Kasel
Updates for Wisconsin’s Inland Trout Management
Our 2025 meetings start with an important and timely topic, the future of Wisconsin’s early inland trout season– that’s the one many of you will have enjoyed when we meet. The DNR is proposing to shorten the early season, allow the harvest of trout during the season, and start the regular season earlier. Click here for a summary of the proposals.
Some members have expressed concern over the proposal. Perhaps those concerns might be expressed as: The early season is working just fine. Why fix what ain’t broke?
Bradd Sims, the DNR’s Stream and River System Biologist, will discuss the DNR proposal and bring us up to date on other trout news. One of Bradd’s duties as the System Biologist is to direct the inland trout program.
SWTU is happy to welcome Bradd. He was the long time biologist for several SW WI Counties and was responsible for some of our best and favorite waters, including the Big Green and the Blue River watershed. Due to many vacancies in the fish program, Bradd helped to manage just about all the streams in this neck of the woods at one time or another. He always did all he could for our coldwater resources. Jim Hess and he collaborated on a couple of great workdays on the Steiner Branch, a wonderful brook trout stream near Yellowstone State Park.
More about Bradd: He has worked as a fisheries biologist with the Wisconsin DNR for 26 years. Currently he is the stream and river systems biologist with the bureau of Fisheries Management out of Madison. Prior he spent 23 years as a fisheries biologist out of the Dodgeville office working in the Driftless Area where much of his time was devoted to the management of streams and rivers. When Bradd is not working he is spending time with his wife and two sons enjoying many of natural resources in Southwest Wisconsin.
We meet on Tuesday, January 14 at Schwoegler’s on Grand Canyon Drive. Bradd’s presentation will start about 7 with dinner and drinks available starting at 5:30.
Schwoegler’s Lanes, 444 Grand Canyon Dr., Madison, WI 53719
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