Each spring, as birds take to the sky and head north, bringing bright colors and cheerful songs with them, an equally massive migration is taking place just beneath the surface of our inland waters. In the eight states and two provinces surrounding the five Great Lakes, many of these migrations are of fish heading from …
Happy Fish Fry Day! Just like many Wisconsin restaurants, we’ve got fish on the menu today. The special? Suckers with a side of steelhead. Watch as CFL graduate student, John Rodstrom, and post-doc, Allison Moody, search for suckers in a Lake Michigan tributary and talk about why free flowing water matters. Editor’s Note: This video …
It’s a cold, overcast day at the end of March and Petrifying Springs Park is brown and leafless – still waiting on its spring greenery. Which means it’s a great day to find some fish here where Pike Creek flows into the Pike River. Specifically, John Rodstrom, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Limnology, …
If you live, well, pretty much anywhere in North America, you know that spring is springing early this year. And while that means ice-free lakes, blooming crocuses and the return of all sorts of birds, it also means that fish are getting ready to move. This spring, (starting next week, in fact) we’ll be bringing …