Respect and Courtesy on the River

As the new fishing season is here, it’s a good time to reflect on how we interact with other anglers and the landowners along the river. Click on, Etiquette  to read a thoughtful essay on the subject and on Responsible Angling for additional information.

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Spring Cleanup Details

The Club’s cleanup day will take place on April 26th (rain date May 10th). We will meet at 9 AM at the Brule pavilion for assignments. We are planning to provide lunch when the clean-up volunteers are finished at noon.

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Spawning Steelhead

You might enjoy a video of steelheads spawning behavior in the Brule River. The video displays steelheads spawning behavior taken on the site of a Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources spawning habitat improvement project built in 1998. Click on Spawning Steelhead to view this video. Since construction, this spawning area has been used by brown…

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Are You Ready?

Now that a new season is here, are you ready? The Club has useful angler maps for both the lower and upper river. We also have a booklet describing how to tie some flies that are favorites of some of the Club members. These are available through the Club Store, click on Club Store.  

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March Fly of the Month

Spring’s Wiggler Dean Wellman, BRSC Financial Secretary – Brule, WI I was first introduced to this fly in the mid 1970s when fishing the Betsy River in Michigan for spring-run steelhead.  The river was clear and a fisherman in a wheel chair was fishing below the barrier and hooking steelhead one after another.  The fly…

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The Great Lakes Restoration Initiative

The proposed federal budget eliminates The Great Lakes Restoration Initiative which is intended to accelerate efforts to protect and restore the largest system of fresh surface water in the world – the Great Lakes. For more information about the initiative, click on GLRI.

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Fall 2024 Fishway Update

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources video-monitored trout and salmon migration at the fishway from July through November. Steelhead peaked in mid-September, whereas coho salmon peaked during the last week of September when 42 percent of the run passed. Low river flows persisted during the run, until 2 rain events occurred in early-November. The lowest…

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Too Hot for Trout

Many anglers in the western U.S. are snagged in an ethical dilemma brought on by a warming climate: When the trout you’re fishing need cold water, and cold water is increasingly scarce, how and when should you fish? Click on, Too Hot to read about the problem in Montana.

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