By Bill Parker Editor Lansing — It looks like an early catch-and-immediate-release (CIR) bass fishing season is coming to Michigan waters. For more than a year, biologists, fisheries managers, tournament anglers, and others involved with and interested in bass fishing in Michigan have been working on regulation changes for black bass. At a meeting last […]
Catch-and-release bass season is looking likely
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