Michigan’s pheasant release program on state game areas was a success again this year, according to Adam Bump, upland game bird specialist with the Department of Natural Resources.
“Everything seemed to go well,” Bump said. “People seemed to be pretty satisfied. The new areas we opened were pretty popular and people seemed to be happy.”
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The original plan for the first Saturday in February was to go the Muskegon River and fish for steelhead. But my buddy Denny Bouwens said the river was crowded on Friday.
“Saturday’s going to be a zoo on the river,” he said. “I’m not really excited about fighting it.”
We kicked around a couple of alternatives. Ice fishing was out, obviously. We could walleye fish on the river, but it was going to be crowded, too. So we settled on heading up to Grand Traverse Bay to jig for lake trout.
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The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is participating in a study with other Great Lakes Basin states to try to determine the cause of declining muskrat populations.
Muskrat populations are falling substantially across the entire eastern United States, according to Dwayne Etter, a research biologist with the DNR’s Wildlife Division, who is heading up the study in Michigan.
“Muskrats are an indicator species – a keystone aquatic mammal,” Etter said.
Michigan DNR a participant in study on declining muskrat population Read More »
Over my years as a deer hunter I have fooled around with virtually every technique we’ve all heard about: sex attractant scents, rattling horns, drives, stalking, grunt calls. Heck, when I lived in Mississippi, I went on a number of hunts where we ran ’em with dogs.
But gradually I adopted a simple three-step approach to deer hunting: Find a place where you think you’ll see a deer, sit down, and stay there. It has worked for me reasonably well.
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I barely knew Claramunt when I worked at the DNR though I did know his (now) wife, Tracy Kolb, who was great – both in her job and as a person – so I give him high marks for winning her.
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I’ve been doing a fair number of two-species fishing trips in recent years, where we fish for one target species for a while, then switch gears and try for something else.
In the spring, for instance, we often fish walleyes on the Detroit River and after we boat our limits, we’ll finish off the day chasing white bass. Earlier this month I had a rather unique trip on Michigan’s Torch Lake where we fished for two totally different targets using two different techniques at the same time; we fished for perch and Atlantic salmon.
Sometimes you have to change your game plan.
Originally, we were going to fish the Detroit River, which is almost as outstanding in the fall as it is in the spring, but my brother, Phil, who set up the trip, said he wanted to get in some perch fishing (which has also been very good), too. So, Steve Van Assche, the skipper, said we might as well fish walleyes on Lake St. Clair, which has been producing like Lake Erie this season.
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Not long ago, a buddy of mine showed me a picture on his phone a buddy of his had sent. It was a massive brown trout – at least six pounds by my eye – caught from a smallish, unheralded stream.
“He kept that fish,” my buddy said.
I shrugged. If it was legally taken, he had every right, despite an unofficial taboo in the trout fishing community against keeping trout. I wouldn’t have kept that fish, but that’s neither here nor there.
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The Michigan DNR Fisheries Division didn’t really want it, but the Natural Resources Commission gave it to them anyway: Beginning in April 2024, steelhead fishermen on a number of Michigan rivers will be restricted daily to a single fish 20 inches or longer year-round.
Some Michigan waters to see one-fish steelhead regulations in 2024 Read More »
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