Northwoods Trout Unlimited

10/29/2025

Now that the details have been completed, the Northwoods Chapter of TU was dechartered in early October. Former Chapter members residing in Florence County will be reassigned to the Marinette Chapter. Forest County members will become members of the Wolf River Chapter. Oneida and Vilas County members will be joining the Wisconsin River Valley Chapter. Each chapter has its own welcoming procedure. Everyone will still receive their quarterly issue of Wisconsin Trout. Contact information for your new chapter is provided in the quarterly.

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06/02/2025

I was happy to be invited to Land O Lakes Elementary School's Trout in the Classroom end of year release and open house presented by Miss Ivy Lapp's 3rd and 4th graders. Everyone did a fantastic job.

03/25/2025

Miss Lapp and her students only needed some initial start-up equipment and direction on contacts with resource agencies. After that, they've been full stream ahead. For instance, last fall I asked if they needed any assistance in getting eggs. The reply had a photo of the newly hatched fry.

LAND O’ LAKES, Wis. (WJFW) – Third and fourth grade Land O’ Lakes Elementary School teacher Ivy Lapp is taking her class through an immersive biological lesson called “Trout in

02/22/2025

Miss Lapp and her 3rd & 4th Graders at Land O' Lakes Elementary passed along an update. Soon the fry will be released from the hatching netting into the aquarium. Ivy reports that the hatch is similar to the last one. The class's artistic talent was displayed in a paint the trout activity.

01/06/2025

01/06/2025

Connectivity

11/19/2024

Miss Lapp at Land O'Lakes Elementary is getting to be an expert with TIC. I checked in to see if they had received this year's allotment of eggs. Minutes later I received this...

06/01/2024

I was privileged to receive an invitation to the Three Lakes H.S. Ecology class's release of the Brook Trout they hatched and reared in their Trout In The Classroom Program. I witnessed the release along with the class's monitoring of the flow, temperature, and aquatic life, etc. in Four Mile Creek. One hatchling got into the habit of eating its siblings and was almost twice as big as the rest. Mr. Statz commented that between the time of his last numbers estimate to DNR and the release, the big boy cut the number of hatchlings almost in half.

05/07/2024

03/15/2024

Three Lakes High School's TIC class's Brookies are doing well. Teacher Luke Statz reports that they are off "fry chow" and eating blood worms. In what Luke describes as a lesson in natural selection, one fish channeled its cannibal tendencies.
Here are a couple shots of the glutton. Luke caught him/her in the act on video (beyond the skills of this geezer).

11/17/2023

All credit goes to the class and teacher. They are very independent. Hopefully they'll have a memorable learning experience (and of course a great hatch).

10/11/2023

Another example of connectivity restoration.

Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe leaders said a new project, reopening 65 miles of the Truckee River, could aid recovery of the cui-ui and Lahontan cutthroat trout.