January 2026

Happy New Year! Online meeting will be held January 26th because many board members are “snowbirds.”

As Brule River Sportsmen’s Club board members, we sometime wonder how our past scholarship recipients are doing, especially considering the highly competitive natural resources job market. In 2014, we added a page to our website under the “Club Scholarship” tab called “Where Are They Now” to report on the lives and careers of past recipients…

The monthly flies from 2020 – 2023 are available in a soft-covered booklet. This would be a great addition to any library. If you’d like to get a copy, contact a board member or visit the Club Store by clicking on 2020 – 2023 Booklet.

We’ll be sending out an electronic ballot for the 5 Officer positions by early December. Voting deadline will be January 15th. Those members receiving paper newsletters will receive a ballot with their newsletter. Paper ballots must be mailed so they reach the Club’s mailbox by the January 15th deadline. To read candidate bios, click on…

Dennis Pratt – Candidate for President (Incumbent).  I am a retired Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources fisheries biologist. My career lasted 37 years with the last 27 years managing the Bois Brule fisheries along with the other Wisconsin tributaries to Lake Superior. My first introduction to the Brule was during a Washburn High School canoe trip…

Spawning habitat partitioning can be important for maintaining sympatric fish species. Likewise, critical spawning habitat loss may challenge the long-term persistence of sympatric fish species. Two of our recent College Scholarship recipients, Ben Schleppenbach and Danny McCann, just published a paper about how the Brule’s trout and salmon partition spawning habitat in the river. To…

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has lost 500 positions over roughly two decades, leading to slower permitting times and loss of capacity for habitat management. The head of the agency’s board called the decline a “slow, insidious loss of resources.” Click on DNR to read more.