In 2021, the NRC, in a proactive move to address declining steelhead populations, reduced the daily bag limit from three fish to one between March 15 and May 15 on sections of Bear Creek, and the Manistee, Pere Marquette, Muskegon, Manistique, and Carp rivers.
Steelhead regs stir controversy in Michigan Read More »
Steelhead regulations are back in the spotlight.
The Michigan Natural Resources Commission has been considering an amendment – with possible action taking place at the Nov. 9 NRC meeting – that would expand the restrictions on daily bag limits for steelhead to additional streams.
Proposed steelhead regulations in Michigan stir controversy Read More »
Hunting seasons are in full swing, but some good fishing reports out there, too, with some of the best fishing of the year going on right now.
Michigan Outdoor News Fishing Report – October 27, 2023 – video Read More »
Michigan’s agriculture community is at or near the top of the list among those concerned with the state’s growing deer population. Yet modern-day farming practices of plowing under crops as soon as they are harvested works against the desire of many farmers that hunters kill more deer.
I remember hunting farm country in the 1980s and ’90s when cut corn fields and bean stubble fields were magnets for whitetails. Once fields were harvested, the remains were left until spring and hunters had ample opportunities to harvest deer, which continued to feed on the leftovers. Sometime in the early 2000s farming practices changed.
Outdoor Observations: An open letter to Michigan farmers to help hunters take more deer Read More »
For the first time in more than a century, Arctic grayling soon will be swimming in Michigan public waters as part of the ongoing Michigan Arctic Grayling Initiative.
That program seeks to establish a self-sustaining, naturally reproducing grayling population in several Michigan rivers. For the past four years the DNR has been collecting eggs and rearing fish in the state fish hatchery system in an effort to move that program forward. The rearing efforts have resulted in a relatively small number of leftover brood stock grayling. They average about 15 inches in length. The DNR plans to release a few hundred of them later this fall into two Upper Peninsula lakes.
Grayling to be released in two of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula inland lakes Read More »
Lake Fanny Hooe rests at the tip of the Keweenaw Peninsula, just east of the town of Copper Harbor. It’s the northern-most inland lake in the state.
Bass and lake trout lure anglers to Lake Fanny Hooe in Michigan’s Keweenaw County Read More »
I never thought I’d say this, but Michigan, particularly southern Michigan where I do most of my deer hunting, has too many deer.
Crop damage is up. Car/vehicle accidents are up. Deer sightings are up. This year on the bow opener I saw no fewer than 35 whitetails. I saw 12 during the morning hunt and lost count at 25 in the evening. That wasn’t an anomaly. Such sightings occur rather routinely.
Outdoor Observations: It appears help is on the way for hunter education Read More »
“With a little help from my friends,” is a popular Lennon-McCartney hit sung by fellow bandmate Ringo Starr of The Beatles back in 1967. It’s also a suitable phrase to explain management taking place in North Manistique Lake in the Upper Peninsula’s Luce County.
North Manistique is basically a giant sand bowl with gravel and rocks mixed in along the bottom. Aquatic vegetation is light compared to most other lakes in the region and spawning habitat for species like walleyes is sparse.
Stocked ’eyes supplement fishery on Michigan’s North Manistique Lake Read More »
Unseasonably warm conditions didn’t deter hunters from participating in Michigan’s early elk hunt. A total of 100 tags (70 antlerless-only and 30 any elk) were issued for the hunt and 70 of those hunters were successful in tagging an elk. Three hunters were no-shows, but one of the three Pure Michigan Hunt winners killed a bull, in addition to the 70 successful hunters.
“That gives up about a 73% success rate, which is pretty much in line with how our early season success has tracked over the years,” Shelby Adams, a DNR wildlife biologist at the Pigeon River Country State Game Area told Michigan Outdoor News.
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