Children under age 16 don’t need a fishing license in Wisconsin. Adults may assist children in fishing, without a license. Examples of assisting are casting out and then handing the pole to the child, unsnagging, or fixing a line.
Fishing Areas
- Elk Lake Park
- Notes: Offers a handicap accessible fishing pier plus other shorefishing spots along a nice shoreline trail; new boat landing and playground/pavilion area
- Hines Park
- Notes: Offers a great floating handicap accessible fishing pier plus other shore fishing spots, a nice park / playground, boat landing, and river walk trail
- Patterson Lake
- Location: On Highway 182, 13 miles east of Park Falls
- Notes: Offers shoreline-based fishing along much of the lakeshore near a township boat landing / parking area; great little stocked trout lake
- Prentice Park
- Notes: All shoreline-based fishing along a village picnic area / park
- Solberg Lake County Park
- Notes: Shoreline fishing, fishing pier, boat dock, boat landing, sandy beach, picnic area, shelter, playground, sand volleyball, nature / hiking trail, and campsites