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When my late black Lab turned 7 years old, he changed. It wasn’t super-noticeable, but I could see it in his every movement.

The sky above a tabletop-flat expanse of eastern Michigan farmland near Lake Huron is a well-traveled pathway for migratory birds journeying between summer nesting areas in Canada’s boreal forests and wintering grounds to the south.

When 2-year-old walleyes are being caught, this might have to be done several times per trip, but multiply this thousands-fold when borderline-size yellow perch or white bass come from commercial trap nets or shore seines.