By Maddie Gamble – Earlier this summer, I headed out on South Trout Lake with University of Wisconsin undergraduate Mason Polencheck on a mission – to find at least one, single mudpuppy (Necturus maculosus). Mudpuppies are the only fully aquatic species of salamander in Wisconsin. Surveying and collecting data on these animals is a tedious …
Winter’s not coming, it’s here, so it’s a perfect time to introduce the next fish on our Fishes of Wisconsin odyssey – the spotted gar. Former CFL post-doc, Solomon David, shared this post from last year. How a species adapts when it’s at the tip of its range. By Solomon David – Winter is Coming. …
Friday’s are when fish are on the menu both at Wisconsin restaurants and your trusty blog. Today, we’re taking a break from our “Fishes of Wisconsin” challenge and mixing things up with a more “southern-fried” piece on alligator gar via the World Fishing Network’s blog. It’s a beautifully written piece, and you should check out …
Happy Fish Fry Day! Once again fish is on the menu here in Wisconsin and on our mind at the CFL blog. We’ve been working our way through the 13-foot-long “Fishes of Wisconsin” poster to bring you interesting morsels of information for every species of fishes found in Wisconsin. Today’s spooky story is brought to …
by Andy Stevens If you’ve taken an evening stroll anywhere along the shore of Lake Mendota over the last week or so, you will likely have noticed large schools of translucent, pencil-like minnows darting about and jumping at the surface. These fish are a species called the brook silverside – Wisconsin’s only member of the …
Happy Fish Fry Day! Once again fish is on the menu here at the CFL blog (and just about every restaurant in Wisconsin). Today we’re continuing the epic slog through all of the images on the Fishes of Wisconsin poster and we’re sticking with small plates. In fact, it’s a two-course deal. Introducing, the finescale …
Happy Fish Fry Day, the weekly holiday where our fair state (always) puts fried fishes on the menu and we here at the CFL (sometimes) put fishes on the blog. Summer’s drawing to a close and it’s time to resume our “Fishes of Wisconsin” challenge. Without further ado, I give you – the bullhead minnow. …
Next Wednesday, March 2nd, Wisconsin DNR “fish guru,” John Lyons will be at the Minocqua Brewing Company for Science on Tap-Minocqua, where he’ll talk about the “Wonderful World of Wisconsin Fishes.” (Can’t make it to Minocqua? You can always watch online). Lyons will give an overview of Wisconsin fishes: How many different kinds of fish …
Last year we launched an overly ambitious project here on the blog – post each week about one of the 183 species on the epic “FIshes of Wisconsin” poster. That proved easier said than done, but we’re back and ready to tackle more of the 13-foot-long behemoth. This week, a few interesting tidbits about the …
Fish Fry Day is when we put fish on our blog and the state of Wisconsin puts them on the menu. This week we continue our “Fishes of Wisconsin” journey. 8 down, only 175 to go! This week’s species is the delectable crappie, a member of the sunfish (Centrarchidae) family with two species (white and …