The 2024-2025 fishing season will open on Saturday, May 4. / Photo Credit: Wisconsin DNR
It’s time to dust off the “gone fishing” sign as Wisconsin’s general inland fishing season opens on Saturday. Fisheries biologists with the Wisconsin DNR expect anglers to find success on opening day, and remind anglers that all residents and non-residents over the age of 16 will need a license to legally put hooks, rods and sinkers to use. Those licenses can be gotten online through the DNR’s Go Wild license portal or from a license agent that you can find through this interactive map.
Some changes the DNR want you to know of include a requirement to register tournaments that have fewer than 20 boats or 100 participants – that one’s free of charge – a new statewide daily limit of three walleye or sauger, and other bag and length limit changes in select counties, Manitowoc among them.
Wisconsin has over 15,000 lakes and 42,000 miles of streams and rivers, and rules aren’t necessarily the same from one to the next, so check the DNR’s fishing webpage, and know before you go.
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