Manitowoc Unit of Fish & Game and Seven Lakes Golf and Dining are teaming up for a special Halloween fish fry to support conservation.

The fish fry will be from 4 to 9 p.m. Oct. 27 at Seven Lakes Golf and Dining, 1420 County Road S, Reedsville.

Seven Lakes is known for its Friday seafood menu and specials. The event is partly sponsored by Seven Lakes and Leede Research, which will donate $4 toward each of the first 200 meals served to club members and supporters. Full menu and Friday specials are included in the offer.

Club representatives will be on hand at the fish fry for memberships and renewals. Special 50/50 raffles will be available hourly. And raffle tickets will also be available for a handmade fishing rod made by Terry Busse.

Event proceeds benefit the Manitowoc Unit and its activities. Reservations are available by calling 920-775-4000 and mentioning Fish & Game.

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Maribel club to hold gun sight-ins

Maribel Sportsman’s Club will hold gun sight-ins Oct. 28-29 and Nov. 4-5.

Hours will be 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Cost is $5 per gun and includes targets, sight-in help and minor gunsmithing.

The Maribel club is next to Interstate 43, exit 164, State 147, Maribel.

Rifle & Pistol Club plans deer hunters’ sight-ins

Manitowoc Rifle & Pistol Club’s deer hunters’ sight-ins will be 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Oct. 28-29 and Nov. 4-5 at the club, 7227 Sandy Hill Lane, Two Rivers.

No sight-ins will be done the weekend before the deer hunting season, as has been done in the past, the club noted.

Register at the clubhouse when you arrive. Cost is $5 per participant. Eye and hearing protection is available. There are supervised 25-yard, 50-yard and 100-yard ranges.

Range stations are sheltered from the weather with a spotter at each station.

Lunch is available inside the clubhouse.

Maribel club announces Youth Fall Trap League winners

Maribel Sportsman’s Club Youth Fall Trap League finished up Sept. 24.

Morgan Brice finished the season as top high school shooter with a season average of 23.25.

Parker Tulachka finished the season as top middle school shooter with a season average of 23.5.

Kettle Range Snow Riders’ snowmobile safety course is Oct. 24, 26 and 28

Kettle Range Snow Riders will hold its snowmobile safety course Oct. 24, 26 and 28 at the Mishicot Sportsmen’s Club. Cost is $10 per person and students must attend all three classes.

To register, go to the DNR website, gowild.wi.gov, and you will need your DNR customer number when doing so.

Maribel Sportsman’s Club elects officers

Maribel Sportsman’s Club held its election of officers during its October meeting.

President will be Chuck Stenzel, vice president will be Carl Bonde, secretary will be Sarah Schmidt and treasurer will be Sue Siebert.

The rest of the board includes Lynn Robinson, Jack Eisner, Tim Meyer, Rodney Gove and Joe Niec.

These officers will start their terms in January 2024.

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Baiting and feeding ban goes into effect in Calumet County

Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources was recently notified by the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection that a farm-raised deer on a deer farm in Outagamie County tested positive for chronic wasting disease.

The positive result is within 10 miles of the borders with Calumet, Waupaca and Winnebago counties, and will enact a new baiting and feeding ban that went into effect in Calumet County Oct. 13.

State law requires the DNR enact a three-year baiting and feeding ban in counties where CWD has been detected, as well as a two-year ban in adjoining counties within 10 miles of a CWD detection.

If additional CWD cases are found during the lifetime of a baiting and feeding ban, the ban will renew for an additional two or three years.

This detection will cause the following: Calumet will begin a two-year baiting and feeding ban on Oct. 13 and Outagamie will renew the ban already in place.

Waupaca and Winnebago counties currently have a baiting and feeding ban in place from positive detections within each county. The bans in these counties are not renewed by this detection, because they are longer than the two-year ban that would result from this detection.

The DNR also reminds the public that it is illegal to hunt over an area previously used for legal baiting and feeding until that area is completely free of bait or feed for 10 consecutive days.

More about baiting and feeding regulations is available on the DNR’s Baiting and Feeding webpage.

In Manitowoc County, we have a ban on baiting and feeding because of a county board decision years ago.

That’s it for this week, so have fun in the great outdoors.

Outdoors columnist Bob Schuh’s “Scoping the Great Outdoors” column appears each Sunday in the Herald Times Reporter. He can be reached at 920-682-3106 or [email protected].