The Wisconsin River is Wisconsin’s longest and most diverse river. It has been labeled the hardest working river in America with quite a few dams. Diverse fish species and lots of wildlife spotting can be done on the river. The river itself is quite shallow in most spots, ranging from 2, 4 or 6-8 feet deep with holes ranging from 10-40 feet deep scattered about. The Lower Wisconsin State Riverway is a DNR-board project that starts at the Pairie du Sac hydro-electric dam and makes it’s way 95 miles to it’s drainage into the Mississippi River. It is unobstructed and filled with completely wild habitats on it’s entire journey.

Over the past week or two I’ve found little to nothing interesting about open-minded fishing, or roughfishing, on the Lower Wisconsin River when doing online searches. A few youtube videos and one or two smallmouth bass tips pages aren’t going to cut it. Roughfishing is a combination of outdoors study and how you can mesh it into fishing. See the Rough Fisher link to the right. This lack of coverage on the river itself and the lifestyle of rough fishing changes now!

This website is going to be dedicated to my experimentation, exploration and trial & error of seeing how wildlife in and around the water all effects what I get on the end of my pole. I like Smallmouth Bass and Walleye, but this website is going to be a much more in-depth and different take on the “sport” of fishing. The Lower Wisconsin State Riverway is a massive water system. I hope you brought the bug spray and don’t mind the sounds of every slough or river animal possible while you sit in the dark of night with the only light around you being a 6 foot circle of yellow glow, as your Coleman is illuminating your wild surroundings.

Keep checking back for more media and information on the Mighty Wisconsin.