November 2025

Meeting will be held via email because many board members are “snowbirds.”

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…

Dave Pinzckowski “Hair Series” Dean Wellman, BRSC Financial Secretary – Brule, WI The Lake Superior Steelhead Association once again held their annual “Spey Day” at McNeil’s on the Brule.  A lot of effort is put into their presentations by some great instructors.  Club member Paul Sandstrom, a master spey caster, showed us his casting skill…

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.

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.