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Presque Isle Lake is a lake in the town of Presque Isle, in Vilas County, Wisconsin. It is a recreational lake with sport fishing. Native Americans also
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on the lake.


History

The lake is deep. The lake is known for sport fishing muskellunge.
Chippewa Indians The Ojibwe, Ojibwa, Chippewa, or Saulteaux are an Anishinaabe people in what is currently southern Canada, the northern Midwestern United States, and Northern Plains. According to the U.S. census, in the United States Ojibwe people are one of ...
exercise their federally protected treaty rights to spearfish
walleye The walleye (''Sander vitreus'', synonym ''Stizostedion vitreum''), also called the yellow pike or yellow pickerel, is a freshwater perciform fish native to most of Canada and to the Northern United States. It is a North American close relat ...
on the lake. The activity draws protests from the local residents. The Lac De Flambeau Chippewa Indians were able to spear 449 Walleye from the lake in 1987.


See also

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List of lakes of Vilas County, Wisconsin Vilas County has more lakes than any other county in Wisconsin, with 563 named and 755 unnamed lakes covering 93,889 acres. Lac Vieux Desert near Phelps, at 4017 acres, is the largest. Named lakes are listed below. Alternate names are indicated i ...
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List of lakes in Wisconsin There are 15,074 documented lakes in Wisconsin.Wisconsin Dept. of Natural Resources, Wisconsin Lakes'. 2009. Of these, about 40 percent have been named. They range in size from small one-and two-acre () ponds to Lake Winnebago. They range in dept ...
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Wisconsin Walleye War The Wisconsin Walleye War became the name for late 20th-century events in Wisconsin in protest of Ojibwe hunting and fishing rights. In a 1975 case, the tribes challenged state efforts to regulate their hunting and fishing off the reservations, bas ...


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