Wisconsin Fishing Reports & Outdoor Report for March 15, 2018

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With the exception of northern Iron County, which received 6-8 inches of snow early this week, the rest of the state has received no new snow and with the return of warmer weather snow and ice conditions are deteriorating rapidly.Ski trails in the north are still in good condition, like these at Pattison State Park thanks to some sunrise grooming efforts.Photo credit: Gervase Thompson, DNROnly about 10 counties in the far north still have snowmobile trails open on the Wisconsin Department of Tourism's Snow Conditions Report (exit DNR) and ski trails now remain open in only the far northern parks and forest, but with some still reporting good cross-country ski trail conditions. There is still one to two feet or more of snow on the ground throughout the Northwoods making for some very good snowshoeing.Most northern lakes still have plenty of ice on allowing ice fishermen to continue ice fishing late into the season. While in the south open water fishing is picking up on the Wisconsin River below the Wisconsin Dells dam with good walleye action last weekend, but with the majority of the fish under the minimum 15-inch size limit. Water temps were still too cold for the actual fish run to begin. On the Fox River boat anglers continued to catch good numbers of walleye and there were still a lot of whitefish in the river.

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