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April 2026

Michigan Wildlife Council focused on state’s outdoors legacy

Featured, Fishing, Home Page News, Hunting, Michigan, National News, Nature Page & Night Sky, News /

The Michigan Wildlife Council is gearing up its 2026 campaign to educate about the benefits of hunting and fishing for conservation following a survey highlighting progress over the last decade.
“We’re already seeing the indicators pointing in the right direction,” Dan Cooke, MWC member and founder of outdoor recreation media company Expedition Detroit, told Michigan Outdoor News.

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Weather raining on your turkey hunting parade? Here’s how to adjust

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It is hard to be enthusiastic about a morning in the spring gobbler woods when the rain is pounding off the truck roof so hard that you cannot carry on a conversation with your hunting partner.
We cannot control the weather, and we have only so much time in the spring woods to tag a gobbler, so it is a simple matter of learning how to adapt or go home. Most hunters would probably choose the latter option, but if you are as big a turkey nut as I am, you will be in the woods while others are back home or at camp.

Weather raining on your turkey hunting parade? Here’s how to adjust Read More »

Early spring fly fishing is often an exercise in restraint, patience

Featured, Features, Fishing, Home Page News, Michigan, National Fishing /

The first few warm days of the year are enough to get me out on the water with a fly rod. It almost never works out as I hope, most likely because of my own impatience.
Early spring is a season of contradiction for warm-water fly anglers. The air softens, days lengthen, and the urge to fish returns – but beneath the surface, species like largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, and bluegill are still governed by winter’s inertia.

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Steve Carney: Springtime gusto on Minnesota’s remarkable Rainy River

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Things have opened up on the Rainy River in northern Minnesota and the crowds have descended.
This is one of the most unique fisheries in the Midwest, and it’s a great fishery to bag a true trophy walleye. Get ready to join the crowds. Here are some tips for fishing the Rainy.

Steve Carney: Springtime gusto on Minnesota’s remarkable Rainy River Read More »

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