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Bob Gwizdz: How Lake Erie became a world class walleye fishery

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Guys my age remember when Lake Erie was called the Dead Sea.
It was an amalgam of industrial waste and sewage, so polluted that one of its tributaries – the Cuyahoga River – actually caught fire (1969) and the lake was even closed for a year to recreational fishing in Michigan (1970) because the fish were too contaminated to eat. Now it is probably the best walleye fishery in the world.

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Bob Gwizdz: Is bass fishing really getting better on Michigan’s Lake St. Clair?

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Back in the spring, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources put out a story with photos entitled: “The good times are now: Smallmouth bass fishing has never been better in Lake St. Clair.”
The first line of the story: “Now is the best time to be a bass angler on Lake St. Clair in the last 50 years.”
That’s a bold statement. Bass fishing on Lake St. Clair is excellent, sure enough, but it has been for at least 50 years.

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Bob Gwizdz: Michigan’s Hex season was short, but sweet!

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I was beginning to think this was going to be a bust. Again.
We were on the Au Sable River and by 10 p.m. my partner, Steve Sendek, said he’d seen a total of two giant mayflies. (I hadn’t seen any, but my night vision ain’t what it used to be.) Sendek started going on about how maybe we should abandon ship and head for another stretch of river where he knew there would be bugs, but that was a non-starter.

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Bob Gwizdz: Plenty of good options when it comes to today’s fishing lines

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Fifty years ago, choosing a fishing line was pretty simple. It was all monofilament all the time.
Introduced in 1939, mono became the go-to line for most anglers by the 1950s. Although braided Dacron, the previous most popular fishing line was still on the market – and it remains to this day most folks’ top choice for tip-up fishing – it was used less as mono was cheaper, more widely available, and easier to use.

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Bob Gwizdz: Michigan’s Saginaw Bay better for bass or walleyes?

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I was on the phone one mid-week evening with Saginaw Bay fishing guide Bill Horton, trying to book a bass fishing expedition for my brother Phil and me, when Horton casually mentioned that he was going on an exploratory walleye mission the next day to look for some fish on the west side of the bay.
He’d been pounding them on the east side, he said, but he had a couple of weekend trips coming up and the weather guys were predicting high winds from the west.

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Bob Gwizdz: Could Michigan become a pike fishing destination?

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There’s little doubt that Michigan offers outstanding fishing opportunities for a wide variety of species.
Southeast Michigan alone offers some of the best bass, walleye and muskellunge fishing, anywhere in America and other fisheries across the state – steelhead on Lake Michigan tributaries, for instance – offer virtually unmatched quality. But one Michigan angler thinks our state could be the best in the country for a less heralded species with a little effort: northern pike.

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Limit of one tag per hunter among changes to Michigan’s fall turkey season

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If you were one of those few hunters who harvested more than one wild turkey during the fall season, well, store that in your memory bank. The Natural Resources commission has made some sweeping changes to fall turkey hunting regulations including limiting the harvest to one bird.
The changes, which were requested by the Department of Natural Resources Wildlife Division, were adopted by a unanimous vote of the NRC at its May meeting in Lansing.

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March ice storm devastated Michigan’s forest resources

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The devastating ice storm in late March that wreaked havoc on northern Michigan did multiple millions of dollars of damage to state forest resources, and its effects are likely to be felt for the next half century.
Scott Whitcomb, who runs the Office of Public Lands for the Department of Natural Resources, said officials are constantly calculating the cost of the ice storm that affected more than 900,000 acres – 22% of the state’s forest system. The DNR will face not only significant lost timber revenue, but will also incur dramatic costs for replanting the red pine plantations that were damaged or destroyed.

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Bob Gwizdz: The secret to catching big trout? Just keep fishing

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I’ve been trying to come up with an approach to trout fishing the past few years that maximizes the opportunity to catch big fish.
I’ve considered about every variable that plays into the equation – where and when you fish, type of gear, weather patterns, etc., etc. – and just about every time I isolate a factor that I think might make a difference, something occurs that’s the opposite of what I anticipated.

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