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Sunday, December 1st, 2024

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Sportsmen Since 1968

Bob Gwizdz

Firearms no longer allowed at Michigan’s Windsor Township State Game Area

Hunters will no longer be able to use firearms at the Windsor Township State Game Area in Eaton County, Mich.
The 207-acre area is owned by the Department of Technology, Management and Budget but has been operated as a state game area by DNR under a memorandum of understanding since 2006. The game area is in a relatively urban setting and has been shrinking as DTMB has developed other uses for it.

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Additional roosters to be released during Michigan’s 2024 hunting season

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources says the pheasant release program on state game areas for the upcoming hunting season will be very much like last year with one exception – there will be about 1,000 more roosters released compared to last year.

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Bob Gwizdz: Excellent September teal hunting in a Michigan Lake Erie marsh

When I moved back to Michigan in the late 1980s after a decade in the South and Texas, I committed myself to make an effort as an outdoor writer to try to allow Michigan sportsmen the chance to enjoy some of the sporting opportunities I learned about when I was (voluntarily) exiled from this great state: dove hunting, late season pheasant hunting, and an early teal season.

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Cooperative effort removes tons of ‘problem’ sand from Michigan’s Au Sable River

The main branch of Michigan’s Au Sable River has a lot less sand in it after a three-week operation this summer employed pumps to moved it to nearby uplands.
The work, performed by Northpoint Fisheries Management and funded by conservation groups moved 240 cubic yards of sand, which was raising the water and covering important substrate, said retired Department of Natural Resources fisheries biologist Steve Sendek, who ran the program.

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Bob Gwizdz: Some big pike, and especially smallmouth, keep anglers busy on Michigan’s Kalamazoo River

Back in the ’80s, when I lived in Texas, I used to make annual pilgrimages to southeast Oklahoma or western Arkansas, to fish for smallmouth bass in the streams in the Ouachitas (which pass for mountains in that part of the world, sort of like the Porcupines do here in Michigan).
I grew up fishing for smallmouths and though there was some pretty good brown bass fishing to be found in Texas, it was typically in deep, clear-water, canyon-type reservoirs, not in streams.

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Excellent fishing in southeast Michigan helps generate big economic impact

Where’s the best fishing in Michigan? If you ask Jim Francis, the Lake Erie Basin Coordinator with the Department of Natural Resources, he’ll tell you point blank it’s in his watershed.
“I may be prejudiced,” said Francis, who recently made a presentation to the Natural Resources Commission’s fisheries subcommittee. “I grew up here and I live here and I work here. But we’ve got good water quality, good habitat, good management, and good fishing.”
And he has plenty of data to back up his assertion.

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Bob Gwizdz: Michigan DNR funding source needs a new direction

I’ve been keeping my ear to the ground, vis-a-vis the license fee increase discussion, and all I’ve heard so far is… crickets.
This is not unusual as, I’m told, the folks involved are a fair distance from putting together an actual proposal and there’s no sense in angering up the blood before it’s necessary. Still, when these things happen, you often see a few trial balloons floated. But so far, none yet.
I am told there is a group within the Michigan Department of Natural Resources that is pretty convinced that our current model – funding game, fish and much of law enforcement through user fees – is irreparably broken.

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E-version of federal waterfowl stamp is now available

Taking a page from the playbooks of a number of states – including Michigan, recently – the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will begin offering electronic duck stamps for the upcoming migratory waterfowl season.
A number of states across the country already offer electronic hunting licenses, which are carried on your cell phone.

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Bill reauthorizes Michigan’s pheasant release program until 2031

A pair of Michigan senators have introduced a bill to reauthorize the state’s pheasant release program on state game areas.
The current program, the Michigan Pheasant Hunting Initiative, in which the DNR contracts with the Michigan Association of Gamebird Breeders and Hunting Preserves to release roosters weekly during the season on 13 state game areas, runs through 2026. It will be extended until 2031 if the bill runs successfully and is signed by the governor.

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