Michigan Fishing Report – July 8, 2026
The lake trout bite was good for boat anglers trolling and jigging here, with a few reports of coho salmon caught trolling as well.
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July 8, 2026
Orleans County (N.Y.) Fishing Report – July 8, 2026
As a whole the big lake open-water action for area waters is somewhat mixed.
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Northwest Ohio angler lands new record green sunfish
Jaret Stevens of Pioneer, Ohio, broke the state record for green sunfish on May 18. The trophy fish came from a farm pond in Williams County. Weighing 1.35 pounds, the sunfish measured 11.45 inches in length and 10.82 inches in girth.
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Minnesota’s statewide fishing report on July 8
Great Eight Lake Mille Lacs Smallmouth bass continue to be caught with plastics and topwater baits on the 12- to 15-foot rocks or weeds adjacent to rock. Walleyes are being taken with a slip bobber and leech at night on top of the mud flats in 22 to 25 feet and with some form of
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Steve Piatt: Suffering through a fishing slump? Just keep fishing
It’s not unusual – disappointing, yes – when a long-awaited trip simply doesn’t produce the kind of fishing you had hoped. It happens, more often than we admit, but you typically accept it with a shrug of the shoulders and move on to the next outing.
That was the case in late May when I headed to one of my favorite central Pennsylvania trout streams (Kettle Creek) for two nights of tent camping at a state park, with designs on hitting the Green Drake hatch and casting to scores of rising, cooperative trout.
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Counting Ghosts: How wildlife biologists estimate deer density
Ask a room full of deer hunters how many deer live in their county and you’ll likely get a dozen different answers. Some will insist the woods are overrun with deer. Others will argue the herd has collapsed. Both groups may have hunted the same property.
The truth is that estimating white-tailed deer density is one of the most difficult tasks in wildlife management.
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Dean Bortz: Wisconsin sportsmen should be tracking discussion from Natural Resources Board meetings
If anyone who reads this newspaper has a spare 20 to 25 minutes at any point in the day, please go to the Wisconsin DNR TV channel, or just type in Wisconsin Natural Resources Board (NRB) meetings and hit enter.
What I’m asking you to do is watch the segments from citizens who sign up for the public participation portion of the NRB meetings.
Wisconsin hunter achieves dream of taking Montana tom cougar
Addie Schroeder will be the first to admit she’s one lucky girl in all sorts of ways. While the variety of local Wisconsin outdoor adventures she’s experienced are some of them, tagging a Montana mountain lion with the help of her own dogs sits high on that list.
“For as long as I can remember, the outdoors has always been a big part of my life,” said Schroeder, 22, of Shell Lake, who works as a registered nurse at a Cumberland hospital.
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MN Daily Update: Comment on a new public use tracking plan on public lands
The federal government has proposed a public use tracking plan
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