Lower Wisconsin River 1/29/2014





1/26/2014

The Wisconsin River below the railroad bridge at Sauk City is frozen over and is not navigable at least down to Spring Green. There are still some areas above the bridge that have open water but if the cold keeps coming most that will be ice covered too. A few people with far more courage than me are catching small walleyes (males) and pike on the golf course side of the river right near the dam and at the wing dam just below the boat landing at the veterans’ park in Prairie Du Sac.



1/26/2014

There are pan fish biting in the section of river that flows behind the island that the railroad bridge crosses. Locals call it the second river. The fish are below where Roxbury Creek joins the Wisconsin River. Just before the 1^st of the year the DNR started pumping a significant amount of water from Crystal Lake into Roxbury Creek, so there’s decent flow of fresh water in the second river. That area seems to be holding more fish than other years. The walk in is a little difficult because there’s a couple of feet of snow on the ground right now.