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Spearfishing

  1. State raises bag limits for walleye spearfishing

    Wildlife officials increased daily walleye bag limits for anglers on Thursday as Wisconsin Chippewa spearfishing winds down.

    • May 23, 2013

  2. Wisconsin commission allows tribe to keep grant

    The vice chairman of the state Building Commission has decided to let a Wisconsin Chippewa tribe keep a $250,000 grant to help build a cultural center.

    • May 23, 2013

  3. Patrick Durkin column: Lawmakers overreact to spearing situation

    Wisconsin's fishing season opens Saturday, and for the first time in about 25 years I'm hearing fears we could see ugly anti-spearfishing activity at Northwoods boat landings.

    • Apr. 27, 2013

  4. Preliminary Ceded Territory bag limits posted at boat landings and available online

    Preliminary bag limits announced earlier this year for walleye caught in the Ceded Territory will not be printed in volume by the state and distributed but will be posted at public boat landings and available for download from the web, state fisheries officials say.

    • Apr. 25, 2013

  5. Funding for tribal cultural center may be revoked due to fishing dispute

    Revoking a $250,000 grant to help the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa build a cultural center is up for a vote.

    • Apr. 24, 2013

  6. Vote to revoke Indian cultural center delayed

    The state Building Commission has delayed for at least a month any consideration of revoking a grant to help build a Native American cultural center.

    • Apr. 24, 2013

  7. Shawn Clark column: What are the tribes up to?

    Is it me, or are the Indian tribes in Wisconsin trying to push people's buttons around the state these days?

    • Apr. 12, 2013

  8. Stepp responds to State of the Tribes Address

    Today, in the State of the Tribes Address delivered to the Wisconsin State Legislature, specific reference was given to the Department of Natural Resources in connection to the recent tribal spearfishing declarations for walleye in northern Wisconsin and the statement the DNR previously issued in response to the declarations.

    • Apr. 10, 2013
  9. Gordon Thayer, chairman of the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, delivers the State of the Tribes address Tuesday in the Assembly chambers of the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison. AP

    Chippewa leader slams DNR 'propaganda,' mining legislation in tribal address

    A Chippewa leader took Wisconsin officials to task Tuesday in the annual State of the Tribes address.

    • Apr. 10, 2013
  10. Sen. Tim Cullen

    Kaufert's spearfishing stance draws ire

    A Democratic state senator blasted a Republican colleague for threatening to reconsider a grant for a Wisconsin Chippewa tribe after the band announced it dramatically increased its walleye spearfishing goals, saying he has an '1800s mentality.'

    • Mar. 29, 2013

  11. Tribal head: Lawmaker overreacting to spearing limits

    The president of the Lac Du Flambeau Tribe says a Wisconsin lawmaker is overreacting by threatening to reconsider a state grant for a Native American cultural center.

    • Mar. 27, 2013

  12. Lawmaker: Lac du Flambeau grant may be reconsidered due to spearing increase

    A Wisconsin lawmaker says he may push to reconsider a $250,000 state grant for a Lac du Flambeau cultural center after it and other Chippewa bands dramatically raised their planned walleye take.

    • Mar. 26, 2013
  13. Spearfishing through the ice can be more efficient than casting or row-trolling, but still requires long waits for fish to swim by. Patrick Durkin/For Wisconsinoutdoorfun.com

    Patrick Durkin column: Facts trump fears after Lac du Flambeau spearfishing tourney

    While walking into Dan Folz's DNR office in Oshkosh many Februarys ago, I heard the veteran biologist explain why warm weather and weak ice wouldn't cause the Department of Natural Resources to cancel Lake Winnebago's sturgeon spearing season.

    • Mar. 23, 2013
  14. Tribal member Lyle Chapman, 15, spears a walleye April 2011 from the lake of Turtle Flambeau Flowage near Mercer. Daily Herald Media file photo

    Tribes plan surge in spearfishing

    The state Department of Natural Resources and the Chippewa tribes in northern Wisconsin are locking horns again, this time over the tribes' plan to dramatically increase the number of walleye harvested this spring.

    • Mar. 20, 2013

  15. Update: DNR, Chippewa tribes locking horns again

    The state Department of Natural Resources and the Chippewa tribes in northern Wisconsin are locking horns again, this time over the tribes' plan to dramatically increase the number of walleye harvested this spring.

    • Mar. 19, 2013

  16. Wisconsin Chippewa declare near-record walleye spearing

    Chippewa tribes in northern Wisconsin intend to spear a near-record number of walleyes during the annual spring harvest.

    • Mar. 19, 2013

  17. Column: Stepp stands strong on Lac du Flambeau walleye agreement

    Wisconsin's strong walleye fishery and the tourism it produces are very important in Northern Wisconsin. As Secretary of the Department of Natural Resources, sustaining our fishery is foremost in my priorities when I negotiate annual Tribal harvests.

    • Mar. 19, 2012

  18. DNR increases walleye bag limits

    Anglers headed to the Northwoods for the Memorial Day weekend got some good news when the Department of Natural Resources increased daily walleye bag limits on 384 lakes, effective Friday.

    • May 26, 2011

  19. CHAT: "Walleye Wars" reporter Jeff Starck discusses series with readers

    The "Walleye Wars" are in the past, but the Northwoods still feels the effects of the state's early-'90s decision to permit spearfishing by American Indians.

    • May 24, 2011

  20. Walleye Wars evolve into peace on the lakes

    The air temperature hovered near freezing one April night as Jeff Williams stood in the bow of a 12-foot Alumacraft boat.

    • May 22, 2011

  21. Protest organizers still angry, but remain quiet

    No two people were more recognized for their roles in the opposition of spearfishing than Larry Peterson and Dean Crist.

    • May 22, 2011

  22. Column: Photographer recalls drama at the lakes

    Indian spearfishing drew national attention in its early years, and each spring from 1985 to 1990, I packed my bags and cameras and spent much of April in Minocqua, covering it for the Wausau Daily Herald.

    • May 22, 2011

  23. Fathers pass modernized ritual to sons

    SPRINGSTEAD -- The process of spearfishing is as simple as it sounds: Boys, young adults and grown men perch in boats and pluck walleyes from the water with 10-foot barbed spears.

    • May 22, 2011

  24. Fishing tourism struggles, but why?

    Kevin Thompson remembers when trucks and boat trailers lined the streets outside Minocqua-area businesses during opening fishing weekend. But traffic at his bait shop on opening day 2011 was by no means frenetic, and Thompson said there's a simple reason -- fewer fishermen.

    • May 22, 2011

  25. Photos: Spearfishing protests from 1988 to 1991

    Images from some of the protests that occurred during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Warning: Some images contain racial slurs that some readers may find offensive.

    • May 20, 2011

  26. Timeline: History of spearfishing dispute

    1837: Chippewa Indians cede much of northern Wisconsin to the United States in return for annual payments of $30,000 for 20 years and hunting, fishing and gathering rights in the ceded territory.

    • May 22, 2011

  27. Who regulates spearfishing?

    » The Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission, commonly known as GLIFWC, was formed in 1984 after a federal court ruled that treaties signed in the 1800s give Ojibwe tribes, also known as Chippewa, the right to hunt, fish and gather rice off their reservations.

    • May 22, 2011

  28. Interactive map: The most speared lakes in 2010

    Click on each lake to review quota and harvest totals for 2010.

    • May 20, 2011

  29. Slideshow: Audio and images of today's spearfishermen

    Photographer Xai Kha visited the Turtle-Flambeau Flowage with members of the Lac du Flambeau tribe while spearfishing.

    • May 20, 2011

  30. Video: Tribal members describe spearfishing

    Photographer Xai Kha visited the Turtle-Flambeau Flowage with members of the Lac du Flambeau tribe while spearfishing.

    • May 20, 2011

  31. Mark Treinen column: Spearfishing stories shed new light

    I admit the impact of spearfishing crossed my mind as I sat in a boat on opening weekend with my 13-year-old son and father-in-law, pulling up the occasional footlong walleye and catching only one that was legal (and barely so).

    • May 20, 2011

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