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August 28, 2008

Northern Lower

Ludington Area Salmon are moving in closer to shore on Lake Michigan, and anglers fishing off the piers and in the harbor report a decent bite. Trollers are having their best success on glow or chrome plugs, while pier anglers report the best action on spoons. Pere Marquette Sport Center, (231) 843-8676. Traverse City Area …

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Lake Erie Region

Sandusky Bay (Ottawa County) – Anglers are catching channel catfish during the night while still fishing on the bottom using night crawlers and raw shrimp. The best location is the Old Bay Bridge. Western Basin: Walleye fishing remained slow over the past week. The best fishing was around the turnaround buoy of the Toledo shipping

Waterfowlers get a 60-day duck season

Lansing – As expected, the state Natural Resources Commission at its August meeting voted unanimously to approve a recommendation from DNR waterfowl biologists and the Citizens Waterfowl Advisory Committee for another “liberal” 60-day waterfowl season. “We recognize the importance of maintaining Michigan’s waterfowl heritage,” Barb Avers, DNR waterfowl specialist, told the NRC’s Policy Committee on

McCain to keynote USSA’s fall banquet

Columbus – The U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance has long been known to bring in some heavy hitters in the outdoors and political world to speak at its annual fall rally. Gov. Ted Strickland spoke at last September’s event and he also made it a stop the year before, along with his election opponent, then secretary of

Northern Lower

Ludington Area Salmon are moving in closer to shore on Lake Michigan, and anglers fishing off the piers and in the harbor report a decent bite. Trollers are having their best success on glow or chrome plugs, while pier anglers report the best action on spoons. Pere Marquette Sport Center, (231) 843-8676. Traverse City Area

Deep-well natural gas poses big risks

University Park, Pa. – Reminiscent of Pennsylvania’s halcyon days of oil production and coal mining early in the last century, the current boom in natural-gas well drilling poses a risk to the state’s streams and groundwater, according to an expert in Penn State’s College fiscally strapped agency – commission officials tried to dampen gas-well revenue

Southern Lower

Allegan Area Bluegill action has been very good on Great Bear and Miner lakes. The fish are holding in 22 to 30 feet of water, 10 to 12 feet down. Skamania steelhead have moved into the Kalamazoo River and are stacked up at the mouth of Swan Creek. Webber &_Sons Marine and Tackle, (269) 673-6294.

Early goose season to kick off Sept. 6

St. Paul – Aside from a few localized areas of low water, and other locations where cool spring air and rain may have influenced brood sizes, there’s little reason to expect anything less than a stellar early September Canada goose season in Minnesota, which in recent years has accounted for nearly one-third of the total

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