Walleyes for Tomorrow “Bay of Green Bay”

10/19/2026

Here is an update after our first year!
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10/19/2026

A few highlights after our first year!

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10/09/2026

🎣 FOX RIVER WALLEYE SPAWN IS ON FIRE! 2025 & 2026 YEAR CLASSES SHOW INCREDIBLE STRENGTH! 🐟

The numbers are in, and the Fox River continues to deliver some incredible news for the future of our Green Bay walleye fishery!

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources recently completed its fall electrofishing survey along 9.2 miles of the Fox River, and the results are outstanding!

🔥 658 walleyes sampled in just 4.98 hours!

Here’s the breakdown:
🐟 439 young-of-the-year walleyes hatched this spring
🐟 219 walleyes from previous year classes

Even more exciting, the catch rate of young-of-the-year walleyes reached 88.1 fish per hour! That ranks as the 3rd-highest catch rate in 34 years of Fox River surveys!

📊 THE TOP 5 YEARS ON THE FOX RIVER:
🥇 2013 – 96.4 walleyes per hour
🥈 2018 – 93.8 walleyes per hour
🥉 2026 – 88.1 walleyes per hour
4️⃣ 2025 – 68.5 walleyes per hour
5️⃣ 2022 – 47.3 walleyes per hour

Think about that for a minute! Three of the five highest catch rates in the history of this survey have occurred in the last five years. And the 2025 and 2026 year classes are showing tremendous potential for the future of our fishery!

🌊 WHY THIS MATTERS

These results are another reason to be excited about the future of walleye fishing on the Bay of Green Bay. Strong natural reproduction is critical to maintaining this incredible fishery, and the Fox River continues to demonstrate just how important it is to our walleye population.

The Wisconsin DNR also reported that the 2026 year class was the largest observed in 34 years at its long-term lower Green Bay sampling sites. Combined with these outstanding Fox River results, we have plenty of reasons to be optimistic!

🪨 HABITAT MATTERS!

This is also a great reminder of why the habitat work being done by Walleyes for Tomorrow is so important. Projects like the spawning reefs on the Fox River and the Labby Reef near Sunset Park are designed to improve and protect the natural spawning habitat walleyes depend on.

These projects are an investment in the future. Healthy spawning habitat gives walleyes the opportunity to reproduce naturally and helps support the fishery for generations to come. While these survey results cannot be attributed to any single habitat project, they reinforce why continuing this work is so important.

A huge THANK YOU to the biologists and crews with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources for their continued research, hard work, and commitment to understanding and protecting our walleye fishery. The data they collect is invaluable to anglers, conservation organizations, and everyone who cares about the future of Green Bay.

And thank you to everyone who supports Walleyes for Tomorrow and our local habitat improvement projects. We all have a role to play in protecting this world-class fishery!

The future of Green Bay walleye fishing looks BRIGHT! 💚🐟

10/06/2026

Green Bay Walleye 2026 young of the year!

10/06/2026

🎣 HISTORIC NEWS FOR THE GREEN BAY WALLEYE FISHERY! 🎣

The 2026 walleye year class is officially the largest year class recorded in 34 years of DNR sampling at the long-term Green Bay sites!

Since 1993, the Wisconsin DNR has sampled Dead Horse Bay and University Bay every fall to measure young-of-the-year walleyes. This year, the numbers were incredible.

🥇 2026-75.1 young-of-the-year walleyes/hour
🥈 2018 – 64.7/hour
🥉 2025 – 61.3/hour
2003 – 42.2/hour
2013 – 38.0/hour

That means 2026 is the highest catch rate ever recorded at these long-term Green Bay sampling sites.

And there is even more encouraging news…

The strong 2026 year class wasn’t limited to the long-term sites.

📍 Bayshore County Park: 96.5 young-of-the-year walleyes/hour
📍 Chaudoirs Dock: 76.4 young-of-the-year walleyes/hour
📍 Dead Horse Bay & University Bay: 75.1/hour

The DNR surveyed 8.33 miles between Dead Horse Bay and University Bay and caught 328 young-of-the-year walleyes along with 91 age-1+ walleyes.

Even more exciting, most of those older walleyes were age-1 fish from the very strong 2025 year class, showing that the 2025 year class continues to perform exceptionally well as yearlings.

The numbers are telling us something important: there is an incredible amount of natural walleye reproduction happening throughout Green Bay.

From lower Green Bay all the way north to Chaudoirs Dock, the density of young walleyes is extremely encouraging.

This is exactly the kind of information we want to see for the future of the Green Bay walleye fishery. 💪🎣

A HUGE thank you to the Wisconsin DNR fisheries biologists for continuing to collect this data and document the health of our fishery.

2025 was a great year class.
2026 just set the record.

The future of Green Bay walleyes looks VERY bright! 🐟💚

Our habitat projects along with great spring spawning conditions made for the best spawn in the past 34 years!

09/09/2026

the relationship isn’t as simple as “more quagga mussels = fewer walleyes.” Ecosystems are complicated, and mussels can change water clarity, nutrients, algae communities and zooplankton composition in ways that vary by location. But the concern about competition for the lower levels of the food web is very real.

09/03/2026

A Legacy That Lives On: Yindra Family Supports New Fox River Habitat Project

DE PERE (WLUK) --Anglers along the Fox River in the Green Bay area can expect improvements to the shoreline at the Brown County Fairgrounds, backed by a $5,000

08/30/2026

Today was a HUGE day for the Walleyes for Tomorrow – Bay of Green Bay Chapter.

The Walleyes for Tomorrow Board of Directors officially gave final approval to our reef project!

To say we are proud is an understatement.

Less than a year ago, we formed the Bay of Green Bay Chapter with a simple goal: to make a lasting difference in the Green Bay fishery that we all love.

That vision became a reality.

🪨 Three NEW spawning reefs will be added to the Fox River.

Even more special, these reefs will be named in honor of Preston Yindra. We couldn’t think of a better way to recognize someone who has meant so much to our fishing community and to the future of this incredible fishery.

Over the next month, we will purchase approximately 450 TONS of rock. This winter, that rock will be placed on the ice and ultimately become new spawning habitat for generations of walleyes to come.

Think about that for a moment…

450 tons of rock.
Three new spawning reefs.
Thousands upon thousands of future walleyes.
A legacy that will last for decades.

And we’re just getting started.

Our chapter hasn’t even been around for a year, and we already have another habitat project in the works.

This is about a group of people who care deeply about the Green Bay fishery and are willing to put in the time, effort and resources to protect it.

To the Walleyes for Tomorrow Board of Directors — THANK YOU for believing in our chapter and giving us the confidence to move this project forward.

To our members, sponsors, volunteers, guides, anglers and supporters — this is YOUR project. Without your support, none of this would be possible.

We aren’t just talking about the future of the Green Bay fishery.

We are building it.

And someday, when our kids and grandkids are catching walleyes on these reefs, they’ll never know the countless hours, phone calls, meetings, fundraising and hard work that went into making it happen.

But we’ll know.

And we’ll know it was worth every minute.

For the fish. For the fishery. For the future. ❤️🎣

Next banquet March 4th Swan Club!

07/01/2026

Awesome job!

05/27/2026

Walleyes for Tomorrow is already looking ahead to our next projects.

The first pictures are from near the Brown County Fairgrounds, and the others are from the Peshtigo River. If you think we’re slowing down when it comes to making this fishery better… you’re wrong. We’re excited to get the next project underway and continue building for the future of our fishery.

We’re especially encouraged after seeing active spawning on our first project, Labby Reef, during electrofishing surveys conducted by the biologists. We’re excited to see the results from this year’s spawn.

This spring gave us a long, drawn-out spawning period with plenty of water flow — conditions that usually lead to a strong spawn. Keep your fingers crossed.

The Green Bay Chapter was also proud to help the Shawano Chapter of Walleyes for Tomorrow collect eggs for their hatchery efforts. Altogether, WFT collected around 10 million eggs on Shawano Lake this year and released millions of walleye fry into Shawano Lake.

It’s been an incredible start for the Green Bay Chapter, and we’re just getting started. The future is bright for our fishery. 🎣