One of my best hunting days last fall, many might have considered a failure.
I was perched in a ladder stand watching a patch of woods I’d eyed many other days this autumn. On one hunt I’d arrowed a young deer perfect for the freezer, and on two others had missed deer.
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Fans of fish, particularly big, old, unusual fish, have a new way to learn about them: “Dinosaur Fish,” a 23-minute documentary film available online at SaginawBaySturgeon.org. That’s a website of the Saginaw Bay Watershed Initiative Network (WIN).
The film, which traces Michigan restoration of the giant fish, was premiered in December for a standing-room-only audience at the Delta College Planetarium in Bay City.
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A guy I sometimes ice-fish near impresses me with his simple approach to the sport.
John carries his gear in a sled, sits in the open on a bucket, drills his holes with a hand auger, finds bottom with a clip-on weight, and uses spinning rods made sensitive with wire bite indicators from before Y2K. He catches plenty of panfish, his winter specialty. And he does it simply.
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Opening days of hunting and fishing seasons get plenty of attention but more and more, I think of them as appetizers and season endings as desserts. Both are wonderful, but the dessert memories are enduring ones.
Fall was settling in in earnest as I climbed aboard the 27-foot Sea Ray Sundancer of my friend Martin Parrott of Spring Lake, Mich., joining him and his friend Dave Nienhouse of Ravenna.
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A Saginaw Bay fish looking for a place to spawn has a new option along the Bay’s northeast shore, two miles from the mouth of the Saginaw River.
There, thanks to a community collaborative and support from Michigan, federal and local partners, the Channel Island Reef has risen to three to four feet above the existing lake bottom.
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I remember, hunkered down next to the basement laundry tub, cleaning game with my dad after a Saturday morning hunt: a couple of woodcock, a grouse, a cottontail rabbit.
Dad showed me how to clean the birds with knife, nippers and bare hands, and then he washed off those hands and slipped on latex gloves before taking on the rabbit cleaning. Rabbit fever, tularemia, he told me, is a disease that people can catch from bunnies, especially early in the season.
As mid-September approached this year, trees as usual remained leafy green.
Whitetail does and twin fawns tentatively ventured into bright winter wheat fields.
Loons that had swam, sung, and fished on this northern Lower Michigan lake were now doing it somewhere southward. A cluster of wood ducks buzzed it, though, and around it oaks white and red had begun sprinkling acorns. Meanwhile panfish, especially bluegills and their close kin, were sliding toward their seasonal anonymity.
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Scientists work to answer a question: Where do these fish come from?
Who’d-a-thunk-it? Modern Saginaw Bay walleyes, long thought to spawn mainly in tributary rivers, are doing most of it in open waters. That’s the upshot of research findings reported this month by Michigan DNR Fisheries Research Biologist Dave Fielder.
It’s hard to forget what useful tools boats are, but let’s try, for now, to focus on the joys that boats offer, in themselves.
It’s apt. After all, Michigan’s at or near the top in boat numbers among states, and we don’t even count the unregistered, non-motorized kayaks and canoes in what seems like every yard, on every car and truck.
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