Michigan Outdoor News Fishing Report – November 8, 2024 – video
Hunting is still going strong, but how about the fishing? Here’s what biting and where.
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Diversity is the name of the game on Thousand Island Lake in Michigan’s Gogebic County
Healthy populations of walleyes, pike, bass and panfish continue to make Gogebic County’s Thousand Island Lake a fishery worth visiting.
Part of the 15-lake Cisco Chain of Lakes, Thousand Island Lake is located approximately 13 miles southwest of the town of Watersmeet in southern Gogebic County. Big African and Lindsley lakes flow into Thousand Island and the lake drains into Cisco Lake and eventually into the Cisco Branch of the Ontonagon River.
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Michigan Outdoor Observations: Abide by hunter orange laws, stay safe this season
The issue of hunter orange surfaces every year about this time. Many, if not most, hunters have concerns that the blaze orange color scares away deer. “It makes you stand out like a giant pumpkin,” some have said.
I don’t know the scientific facts about a deer’s eyes but I can honestly say I have killed dozens of deer over the years while clad in at least one garment of hunter orange and it never seems to bother them.
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Michigan Outdoor News Fishing Report – October 24, 2024 – video
Now is one of the best times to be on the water, with the big fish coming out and putting on the feed bag for winter.
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Walleye stocking supplements fishery on Frenchman Lake in Michigan’s Chippewa County
A quiet lake with relatively light fishing pressure, Frenchman Lake in Chippewa County offers anglers a mixed bag of panfish, pike, bass, and walleyes.
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Another unseasonably hot fall hampers Michigan’s early elk hunt
When a big package arrived in the mail from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Auburn resident Dylan Lightfoot got a little nervous. “I thought, ‘Oh my God, what did I do,’” Lightfoot said.
What he did was hit the Michigan elk hunting lottery. From a pool of between 30,000 and 40,000 applicants, Lightfoot was one of 30 hunters who received a tag to shoot any elk during Michigan’s early elk hunting season in September.
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Outdoor Observations: Will southern Michigan hunters heed the call to shoot more antlerless deer this season?
There is a saying that goes, “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.” I credit the DNR for heeding that call when it comes to increasing the antlerless harvest in southern Michigan.
Last year, DNR Deer Specialist Chad Stewart sent out an open letter to all hunters, which ran in this publication (Oct. 23, 2023) and others. He explained that we weren’t taking enough does to control the size of the herd and encouraged hunters to make a concerted effort to harvest more antlerless deer, particularly in the southern part of the Lower Peninsula.
Michigan Outdoor News Fishing Report – October 11, 2024 – video
Fall is in full tilt and the fishing has been good. The perch bite is happening now – here’s where.
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Northern pike plentiful in Kalamazoo County’s Morrow Lake in Michigan
An oil pipeline owned by Enbridge Energy and running beneath Talmadge Creek, a tributary of the Kalamazoo River, ruptured near the town of Marshall on July 25, 2010 creating the largest on-land oil spill in American history. Before it was contained, close to 1 million gallons of crude oil seeped into the creek and eventually the Kalamazoo River.
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