Great Lakes: Walleyes being caught on Fox River

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Great Lakes: Walleyes being caught on Fox River

Fox River anglers are catching walleyes from boats and shore below the De Pere dam refuge. The 28-inch minimum size limit and one-fish bag limit are in effect. Some of the action has been as shallow as 2 feet of water in low-light hours; by day, try the holes and channel edges with jig and bait combos.

Green Bay ice is deteriorating rapidly. Until it gets too thin and soft, though, many fishermen are walking out to pursue whitefish, pike, smelt, burbot and walleyes. The bass, perch and muskie seasons are closed.

Along Lake Michigan, expect brown trout trollers to get going in force as soon as all the launches shed their ice. River anglers already are tangling with an occasional spawn-run rainbow.

• More than 1 million salmon soon will be tagged at the Wild Rose State Fish Hatchery using mass-marking technology from an automated trailer owned by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and stored in Green Bay. Four states and eight hatcheries employ the trailer to coded-wire tag and fin-clip Chinooks.

For details, visit www.fws.gov/midwest/ massmarking2010.htm.