Wisconsin: Ice fishing gains 110,000 anglers over the last decade
Image via Wikipedia MADISON – One hundred ten thousand people can't be wrong. That's how many more Wisconsinites are ice fishing these days than a decade ago, according to results from a recently released national recreation survey. "Clearly more people are getting interested in ice fishing in Wisconsin, which is great," says Mike Staggs, Wisconsin's fisheries director. "It's a low cost way to try fishing or to extend your season if you're a veteran open water angler. It's as easy as drilling a hole -- or finding a hole someone else left behind -- and using some basic equipment to catch some fish for dinner." An estimated 590,700 Wisconsinites 16 and over report they ice fish, up from 479,900 in 2000, according to the most recent National Survey on Recreation and the Environment. Department of Natural Resources staff are using results from the federally funded survey and other studies to develop its 2011-2016 Statewide Comprehen...