By Steve Griffin Field Editor Lansing — Getting and using a turkey permit should be easier next spring, with changes proposed by the DNR to the Natural Resources Commission that oversees it. The NRC was to meet this week in Lansing to consider the DNR’s proposals, which it first received for consideration last month. Game …
Muskegon, Mich. (AP) — The Coast Guard would become one of the largest sources of the toxic metal lead entering the Great Lakes if it goes through with a plan to create 34 live-fire weapons-training zones in the lakes, according to federal data. Coast Guard personnel would fire up to 430,000 bullets each year in
SOUTHERN LOWER Lake St. Clair Heavy winds have hampered fishing activity on Lake St. Clair, but a few walleyes are being caught by persistent anglers. The best action has been from the mouth of the Detroit River to Huron Point on the American side of the lake. A few muskies and pike are being caught
CENTRAL REGION Deer Creek Lake (Fayette, Madison, and Pickaway counties) – This is the season for tailwater fishing for saugeye at Deer Creek Lake. Most saugeye here measure between 10 and 28 inches and can be caught on small jigs tipped with twister tails or minnows. Continue fishing the tail water for saugeye until spring.
By Marty Kovarik Correspondent Marquette, Mich. — According to officials around the state, it looks like Michigan bear hunters had a banner season. Although the official harvest numbers won’t be available for a while, there is a possibility the 2006 season was the best since the lottery system was put into effect. “In general, my
By Bill Parker Editor Roscommon, Mich. — Biologists and hunters have speculated for years about what impact managed hunting has on the American woodcock population. With the continental population in a slow but steady decline of about 1.9 percent per year since 1968, the question has even more relevance today than it did 30 years
By Joe Albert Staff Writer St. Paul — The number of deer taken by bowhunters is up 20 percent over this time last year. Hunters during the early season for antlerless deer in the middle of October also took 20 percent more deer than last year. So it would only be right if the hunters
Washington (AP) – Deer probably spread chronic wasting disease through their saliva, concludes a study that finally pins down a long-suspected culprit. The key to the discovery was that Colorado researchers tested some special deer. Chronic wasting disease is in the same family of fatal brain illnesses as mad cow disease and its human equivalent.
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