Friendship Fishing Club

05/16/2026

Another successful cleanup in the books, thanks volunteers!

05/16/2026

Good morning! Be on the lookout for men (and women) at work this morning, we’ll be working on the stretch of 45 from Scott St. to Silver St. once again as we participate in the Adopt a Highway Program!

Thank you for supporting Friendship Fishing Club, and always remember that the ice is never 100% safe!

We now have two ways to get a membership! Click the “Sign Up” button on our home page or visit any of our business partners on the West Shore: The Lakeshore Mart, TJ’s Harbor Restaurant, or Wendt’s on the Lake.

Our donate link can be found here:
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05/03/2026

Please see the below update on sturgeon spawning activity from the DNR as of this week

https://dnr.wisconsin.gov/topic/Fishing/sturgeon/SturgeonSpawning

04/19/2026

Running the sxs to storage this morning, it’ll be looking a little different the next time you all see it!

Thank you for supporting Friendship Fishing Club, and always remember that the ice is never 100% safe!

We now have two ways to get a membership! Click the “Sign Up” button on our home page or visit any of our business partners on the West Shore: The Lakeshore Mart, TJ’s Harbor Restaurant, or Wendt’s on the Lake.

Our donate link can be found here:
https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=JZECAGBLK684A

04/13/2026

It’s starting to be that time!

So, full disclosure.... This picture is from last year. But...
Water temperatures have increased significantly. Sturgeon are starting to be seen in the spawning areas and on the cams. No spawning activity has been observed as of yet, but there is a good chance, with the warmer weather projected this week, that the spawn may begin in some areas before the weekend. Stay tuned!!!

04/07/2026

Don’t forget, our monthly meeting is tomorrow night, 7pm at Generation Lanes of Eldorado. Generations is on of our newest business partners and this will be our first meeting there, we are excited to be partnered with them!

See you there!

03/27/2026

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has published the 2026 Successful Spearers list. Please find it linked to this post.

Some highlights from the 2026 season included:

This was the shortest spearing season on the Upriver Lakes since 2015.
A total of 1,539 lake sturgeon were speared in 2026, with the adult female harvest caps triggered on both the Upriver Lakes and system-wide.
54 sturgeon weighing over 100 pounds were speared.
The largest sturgeon speared was a 148.1-pound female on the Upriver Lakes.

03/08/2026

Thanks Stuart's Landscaping & Garden Center for the use of the wash rack. The steam cleaner sure got the club’s side by side cleaned up nicely for the off season.

Thank you for supporting Friendship Fishing Club, and always remember that the ice is never 100% safe!

We now have two ways to get a membership! Click the “Sign Up” button on our home page or visit any of our business partners on the West Shore: The Lakeshore Mart, TJ’s Harbor Restaurant, or Wendt’s on the Lake.

Our donate link can be found here:
https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=JZECAGBLK684A

03/07/2026

We had a great turn out of volunteers to help put the rest of the bridges away today. Thanks guys!

Thank you for supporting Friendship Fishing Club, and always remember that the ice is never 100% safe!

We now have two ways to get a membership! Click the “Sign Up” button on our home page or visit any of our business partners on the West Shore: The Lakeshore Mart, TJ’s Harbor Restaurant, or Wendt’s on the Lake.

Our donate link can be found here:
https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=JZECAGBLK684A

03/06/2026

Thank you Triatik’s Tree Service for the help this morning!

The end of the season doesn’t mean the end of the work. There are always loose ends to tie up, and one big one is the handling of the left over Christmas trees. We have a great community that supplies (sometimes oversupplies) us with Christmas trees to mark the roads, bridges, problematic areas, etc. We bring as many of these as we can back and then need to process them. This is usually an arduous burning operation

This year Matt, of Triatik’s Tree Service, came down to chip these up for us. This means these will be repurposed a third time, as decorative wood chips. Matt has been a long time supporter of our club and we thank him greatly for that support throughout the years. If you need tree work done whether that’s trimming, removals, land clearing, storm cleanup, or anything at all please consider working with his family-owned business!