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UpNorthFishing.com is your complete on-line guide to Fishing, Fly Fishing, Ice Fishing, Tournaments, and Fishing Guides in the beautiful northwoods and great lakes of Wisconsin, Lake Superior, Lake Michigan and the Western U.P. of Michigan, and more!

Here you'll find fishing reports from professional guides, fishing videos you can enter your experiences and questions into, and bait shop listings for everything you need to perfect your craft.

There is also a new photo site, UpNorthFishingPhotos.com, dedicated to displaying of the photos of the successes of fishermen like you.

Also a new guide site, UpNorthFishingGuides.com, making it easier for you to find an fishing guide, hunting guide or any other help you may need finding you way in the great outdoors.

You'll see that our reporters are not only fisherman, but are teachers of the craft as well.

Good luck and remember, "If you're too busy to go fishing, you're too busy!"

Ceded territory walleye bag limits 2013-2014
(posted 5-4-2013)

The initial Ceded Territory walleye bag limits for the 2013-2014 Season [PDF] are now available. The total daily bag limit for walleyes is five. If the lake you are fishing has a bag limit less than five, you can fish other lakes to fill your daily bag limit. While fishing, you cannot possess fish in excess of that lake's daily bag limit.

Angler bag limits are adjusted according to the percent of the safe harvest that the tribes declare they will take during the spring spearing season (see Managing Fish Populations in the Ceded Territory for an explanation of safe harvest). As the tribal harvest goal (as a percent of allowable harvest) increases, angler bag limits are reduced. This is done to ensure that the walleye population is not over harvested by the combination of spearfishing and recreational angling. The Tribes do not always take as many fish as they declare. When that happens, angler bag limits on individual lakes may be readjusted based on the percentage of safe harvest actually taken.

A comparison of angler and tribal harvest from lakes surveyed shows that angler harvest accounts for the majority of walleye harvest in the Ceded Territory. Although DNR creel clerks do not typically identify the sex of walleye harvested by anglers, creel studies in Escanaba Lake (Vilas County) suggest that the sex ratio of walleye harvested by anglers is close to 50-50.

Tommy’s has got a date with a Walleye in heaven now. Rock on’ Tadpole’. We’re gonna miss you. Tommy Zinda, long time fishing guide and a great promoter of the northwoods, passed last night, May 12th, after a battle with cancer. I will try to get details of his memorial on his web site at tommysfishingadventures.com soon.

A few old jokes:

Worse than the Weather
One Saturday morning a man gets up early, dresses quietly, gets his lunch made, puts on his long johns, grabs his dog, goes to the garage to hook up his boat to the truck and down to the driveway he goes.

Coming out of his garage the rain is pouring down: it is like a torrential downpour. There is snow and sleet mixed in with the rain. The wind is blowing at over 50mph.

Minutes later he returns to the garage. He comes back into the house. Turns the TV to the weather channel and he finds it is going to be very bad weather all day long, so he puts his boat back in the garage, quietly undresses and slips back into bed.

There he cuddles up to his wife's back, now with a different anticipation and whispers, "The weather out there is terrible". To which she sleepily replies, "Yeah, can you believe my stupid husband is out fishing in it?"

My Blue Pajamas
A man calls home to his wife and says, "Honey I have been asked to go fishing at a big lake up in Canada with my boss and several of his friends. We'll be gone for a week. This is a good opportunity for me to get that promotion I've been wanting so would you please pack me enough clothes for a week and set out my rod and tackle box. We're leaving from the office and I will swing by the house to pick my things up. Oh, and please pack my new blue silk pajamas." The wife thinks this sounds a little fishy but being a good wife she does exactly what her husband asked. The following weekend he comes home a little tired but otherwise looking good. The wife welcomes him home and asks if he caught many fish? He says, "Yes! Lot's of Walleye, some Bluegill, and a few Pike. But why didn't you pack my new blue silk pajamas like I asked you to do?" The wife replies; "I did, they were in your tackle box."

Reasons Why Fishing Is Better Than Sex...

 ** You don't have to hide your Fishing magazines..

 ** It is perfectly acceptable to pay a professional to Fish with you once in a while.

 ** The Ten Commandments don't say anything about Fishing.

 ** If your partner takes pictures or videotapes of you Fishing, you don't have to worry about them showing up on the Internet if you become famous. 

 ** Your Fishing partner doesn't get upset about people you fished with long  ago 

 ** It's perfectly respectable to Fish with a total stranger. 

 ** When you see a really good Fisherperson, you don't have feel guilty about imagining the two of you Fishing together.  

 ** If your regular Fishing partner isn't available, he/she won't object if you Fish with someone else.  

 ** Nobody will ever tell you that you will go blind if you Fish by yourself. 

 ** When dealing with a Fishing pro, you never have to wonder if they are really an undercover cop.  

 ** You can have a Fishing calendar on your wall at the office, tell Fishing  jokes, and invite coworkers to Fish with you without getting sued for harassment.  

 ** There are no Fishing-transmitted diseases.  

 ** If you want to watch Fishing on television, you don't have to subscribe to the Playboy channel.

** Nobody expects you to Fish with the same partner for the rest of your life  

 ** Nobody expects you to give up Fishing if your partner loses interest in it.  

 ** Your Fishing partner will never say, "Not again? We just Fished last week! Is Fishing all you ever think about?"