Places to Fish in Wisconsin

Lake Mendota has game...
but can you catch it?

Got Game?
Lake Mendota spring netting surveys on April 10, 2009 turned up these large northern pike.

While we will not recommend a specific fishing spot, we will provide you with as much information as we can to help you find a time and place to fish.

Before finding a place to fish, make sure that you are familiar with Wisconsin's Fishing Seasons.

This collection of links should help you find a suitable location for the type of fishing you are interested in.

Accessible Fishing Across Wisconsin

Provides some specific locations of developed, disabled-accessible and public shore fishing sites in certain parts of Wisconsin.

Places to Fish

Wisconsin Trout Stream Maps and Classes

Catchable-size trout waters stocked in 2009 with more than 600,000 catchable-sized brook, brown, and rainbow trout

Interactive lake maps allow you to locate lakes by county.

Places to Fish with Kids

Lake Michigan Tributaries with Public Access includes maps showing access sites.

Motor Trolling in Wisconsin Waters is not permitted unless specifically authorized.

Musky Waters is a listing of musky lakes and rivers in Wisconsin, classifed by angling quality and reproductive status.

Public Wildlife Recreation Land with information on many larger state properties with recreational opportunites, including fishing.

Quality Fishing Opportunities for muskellunge, largemouth and smallmouth bass, walleye, and northern pike.

Wisconsin Lakes Directory Lists the relative abundance of major sport fish in Wisconsin lakes and type of lake access.

You don't have to look far to find fishing waters.

Public fishing areas on Dane County trout streams:

Additional Information from Federal and Local Governments

Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest [exit DNR] Over 2,000 miles of stream with nearly 1,400 miles classified as trout waters, 607 lakes greater than ten acres in size and over 400 spring ponds.

Washburn County Trout Fishing [exit DNR] Location of the best fishing opportunities in the fall when trout season is normally closed.

Last Revised: Thursday May 14 2009