MADISON - State officials are warning anglers to reduce their consumption of yellow perch and crappies harvested from the Petenwell Flowage after the fish tested positive for high levels of "forever ...

If you have ever gone over the Highway 21 bridge that spans the Wisconsin River just east of Necedah, you will see a large dam. That dam holds back the water that creates the Petenwell Flowage, which ...

The murky depths of the Petenwell Flowage hold a secret that I’ll never know — my biggest fish that got away. When I was growing up, my dad would take me fishing in Barnum Bay on the east side of the ...

Each spring, a high percentage of the walleye that live in Wisconsin’s second largest inland body of water, the Petenwell Flowage, swim up the Wisconsin River to deposit their spawn. The dam at ...

Studies on the Wisconsin River from Nekoosa, Wisconsin, to the Petenwell Reservoir dam showed that the river in this area had large excesses of biodegradable materials, chiefly from pulp and paper ...

The Wisconsin River provides the makings for a variety of recreational activities, from boating and fishing on the water to viewing wildlife along its banks. But where the Wisconsin River widens to ...