FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 15, 2024
Contact: Joan Voigt, DNR Natural Resource Educator, Wild Rose Hatchery 
[email protected] or 920-622-3527 x209 

Celebrate Spring Sturgeon Spawn At
Wild Rose Hatchery On May 4

Stop by the Wild Rose Hatchery, learn about popular gamefish species and celebrate the annual spring sturgeon spawn. / Photo Credit: Wisconsin DNR

MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is hosting a spring open house at Wild Rose Fish Hatchery Education Center in Wild Rose, Wisconsin from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, May 4, 2024.

This free event will give attendees a chance to celebrate the annual spring sturgeon spawn and learn more about Wisconsin’s oldest fish species.

To help attendees learn more about gamefish and angling, the open house will include activities for people of all ages, including casting instruction, fish identification and following the sturgeon migration journey to spawning areas. Other hands-on activities include printing fish on tote bags, learning how to build a spinner and making a clay sturgeon.

Attendees can also tour the original 1908 hatchery and explore the modern operation. The Education Center will provide guided tours from DNR staff every 45 minutes, with the last tour departing at 2 p.m.

The Wild Rose fish hatchery is a cool and cold-water hatchery that raises brown and rainbow trout, coho and Chinook salmon, Great Lakes spotted muskellunge, walleye and lake sturgeon.

Learn more about this event on the DNR’s Event calendar.

EVENT DETAILS  

What: Wild Rose Spring Open House
When: 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, May 4 
Where: Wild Rose Hatchery
             N5871 State Road 22 
             Wild Rose, WI 54984