Photo Story: Fort McCoy’s fisheries team completes 2025 fish surveys

Photo By Scott Sturkol | Watershed Management Specialist Jaden Gallardo with Colorado State University helps conduct a fish survey April 22, 2025, at Stillwell Lake on South Post at Fort McCoy, Wis. They conducted fish surveys and lakes and ponds at Fort McCoy in late April and early May. The fish surveys, according to Fisheries Biologist Steve Rood with the Directorate of Public Works Environmental Division Natural Resources Branch, are necessary to determine the health of the installation’s many waterways. The surveys produce data that are critical for fisheries management. Surveys include electrofishing streams and netting lakes and ponds. Much care is taken to ensure the fish are not harmed. Fish caught included walleye, bluegills, bass, pumpkinseed, crappies, trout, and more. (U.S. Army Photo by Scott T. Sturkol/Fort McCoy Public Affairs Office)  

FORT MCCOY, WISCONSIN, UNITED STATES

04.27.2025

Story by Scott Sturkol                                                                                                   

Fort McCoy Public Affairs Office           

Watershed management biologists and specialists with Colorado State University conducted a fish survey April 22, 2025, at Stillwell Lake on South Post at Fort McCoy, Wis.

They conducted fish surveys and lakes and ponds at Fort McCoy in late April and early May.

The fish surveys, according to Fisheries Biologist Steve Rood with the Directorate of Public Works Environmental Division Natural Resources Branch, are necessary to determine the health of the installation’s many waterways.

The surveys produce data that are critical for fisheries management. Surveys include electrofishing streams and netting lakes and ponds. Much care is taken to ensure the fish are not harmed.

Fish caught included walleye, bluegills, bass, pumpkinseed, crappies, trout, and more.

Fort McCoy’s motto is to be the “Total Force Training Center.” Located in the heart of the upper Midwest, Fort McCoy is the only U.S. Army installation in Wisconsin.

The installation has provided support and facilities for the field and classroom training of more than 100,000 military personnel from all services nearly every year since 1984.

Learn more about Fort McCoy online at https://home.army.mil/mccoy, on Facebook by searching “ftmccoy,” on Flickr at https://www.flickr.com/photos/fortmccoywi, on X (formerly Twitter) by searching “usagmccoy,” on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/fortmccoywi, and on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@fortmccoy.

Also try downloading the My Army Post app to your smartphone and set “Fort McCoy” or another installation as your preferred base. Fort McCoy is also part of Army’s Installation Management Command where “We Are The Army’s Home.”

• Date Taken: 04.27.2025
• Date Posted: 04.27.2025 22:55
• Story ID: 496293
• Location: FORT MCCOY, WISCONSIN, US