Outdoors Calendar

• Hunting and Trapping Seasons
• Hunting and Trapping Regulations
• Fishing Seasons
• Fishing Regulations

* Indicates date remains the same each year, except some permit deadlines may be extended one day if they fall on a Sunday or Federal Holiday.

November 19

• Early archery deer season closes statewide. Reopens Nov . 30 through Jan. 3, 2010.
• Fall turkey hunting season closes.
• Fall crow season closes.

November 20

• Collins zone Canada goose hunting period 3 closes.
• It is illegal to hunt with a firearm the day before the gun deer season opens, except for waterfowl hunting or hunting on licensed game farms or shooting preserves, or within the CWD management zone.

November 21

• Regular gun deer season open through Nov. 30.

November 24

• Northern zone duck season closes.

November 29

• Regular gun deer season closes.

November 30

• The fall turkey season has been extended and reopens for Zones 1-5 ONLY and will run from through December 31.
• Muskellunge season closes.*
• Turtle season closes. *

December 1

• Lake trout season on Lake Superior opens, through Sept. 30.*

December 6

• Southern zone duck season closes.

December 8

• Ruffed grouse season closes in the zone B.*

December 9

• Muzzleloader deer season closes.

December 10

• Spring turkey permit application deadline.*
• Application deadline for bear hunting kill permit.*
• Bobwhite quail season closes.*

December 10-13

• Late statewide antlerless-only firearm hunt. Hunters may use Herd Control and Earn-a-Buck antlerless deer carcass tag in deer management units with those designations. Hunters in regular units must purchase a unit-specific antlerless deer carcass tag to hunt in those units. Archery season will also remain open in these units during these four days but is restricted to the harvest of antlerless deer. Blaze orange requirements apply for all hunters during this time period.

December 12

• Canada goose season in the north exterior zones closes.

December 16

• Horicon zone Canada goose hunting periods 2 closes.

December 17

• Canada goose south exterior zone season closes.

December 31

• Pheasant season closes.*
• Fall turkey season extension in units 1 through 5 closes.
• Hungarian partridge season closes.*
• Bobcat hunting and trapping season closes.*
• Fisher trapping season closes.*
• Frog season closes.*
• Canada goose Mississippi River zone season closes.

* Indicates date remains the same each year, except some permit deadlines may be extended one day if they fall on a Sunday or Federal Holiday.