FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Madison, Wis. When it comes to water temperatures, fish can be a lot like Goldilocks. Some water bodies are too warm, others too cold, and a handful are “just right” – …
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Guest Post: Big Lake, Big Fish? How Habitat Affects Fish Size and Numbers
Yesterday, the folks over at The Meat Eater blog posted an awesome article about the link between fish size and habitat featuring CFL alum, Jereme Gaeta. We thought readers of this blog would also be …
UW-Madison Undergrads Cast a Wide Net to Catch Ecological Change on McDermott Lake
Over the course of the last four months, PhD student Holly Embke and her team of undergraduate researchers have systematically removed more than 80,000 bass and panfish from McDermott Lake in southern Iron County as …
80,000 Fish Later, Researcher Wraps Up Summer Season of “Bass-Walleye” Study
by Sydney Widell – Holly Embke’s Subaru is nearly packed and, besides a few boxes, her desk is vacant. In a few hours, she’ll be leaving Trout Lake Station and driving home to Madison – …
New Online Tools Says to Catch the Big One, Think Small
When it comes to fish food webs, the basic narrative is that the bigger the fish, the bigger its prey. In fact, one of the measurements scientists often use to determine a predator’s potential diet …
Trout Lake Research Rewind: Bog Walks, Lab Work & Wild Rice
by Riley Steinbrenner Week One One of the first things I did up north was walk on water–well, on a bog, that is! TLS Interim Director Susan Knight took CFL outreach/communications specialist Adam Hinterthuer and …
Bass Set to Win, Walleye Lose Under Warming Projections
Following up on our call for political officials in Wisconsin to start taking climate change seriously, here is a post originally published in September of 2016 about one of the potential impacts global warming will …
Notes from the Northwoods: Electrofishing on Allequash Lake
This summer, Anna Krieg, an undergraduate at Arizona State University, will spend a few months in a much wetter habitat as the CFL’s summer outreach intern at our Trout Lake Station. Enjoy her Notes from …
Fish Fry Day: Fish Q? There’s an App for That
Happy Fish Fry Day! Restaurants around Wisconsin are warming up the deep fryers for our weekly feast and we’re putting fish on the menu here at the blog. Today’s special is an all-you-can-eat buffet of …
Muckraking Mendota: Breaking the Surface Barrier
by Emily Hilts While walking along the lakeshore to my first day of work, I spotted a smallmouth bass hanging out in the rocky shallows of Lake Mendota. After watching for a minute, it finally …