March 2025

Meeting will be held on March 24th at 6:00 PM at the Kro Bar and Grill in Brule.

The expo is being organized by Minnesota Trout Unlimited again this year and and will be at Hamline University in St. Paul, MN.  Events are scheduled for March 21 – 23. For more information on the Expo, click on Great Waters Expo.

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…

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.

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.

Karen Hyun will be the state’s next secretary of the Department of Natural Resources, a cabinet position that’s gone unfilled for more than a year. Hyun will assume the office on Jan. 27, and her appointment marks the end of the office’s longest vacancy in more than 50 years. She is the first woman to…

The aging and perched culvert under Wisconsin State Highway 27 will be replaced. The project is being designed by the Wisconsin DOT with the Wisconsin DNR and Trout Unlimited providing design review. Designs are expected to be completed in 2025 with construction occurring in summer 2026. The replacement will allow greater fish passage and also…

Proposed legislation (HR 8167) introduced by Georgia congressman Andrew Clyde (https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/8167?r=4&s=1) would eliminate Pittman Robertson funding. The Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act, enacted in 1937 is now known as the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act and provides funding for states and territories to support wildlife restoration, conservation, and hunter education and safety programs. The proposed…