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Steve Griffin: Michigan’s big, burly, Saginaw Bay replete with walleyes

Featured, Fishing, Home Page News, Michigan, National Fishing /

What irony! I love just about everything about my neighbor, big, burly Saginaw Bay. But I’m not the person you’re most likely to see on that lobe of Lake Huron.
A few Fridays ago a friend and I paused at mid-day at the end of Linwood Road, just east of the village that proclaims itself Michigan’s Walleye Capital, and guessed the number of vehicles parked at 400 to 500.

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Steve Griffin: The woodcock is a little bird that occupies a big part of my hunting heart

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Three times the Michigan DNR’s wildlife division asked me in an email for my thoughts about woodcock. I’ll answer, but I wanted to review what I think about woodcock, first. And what I think is: It’s hard to think of anything so small that occupies such a big piece of my hunting heart.
The first gamebird I ever shot was a woodcock, a long-billed Midland County missile that posed a puzzle when it tumbled from the sky and seemed to disappear. It was my first time wrestling with game gone missing – probably hit, maybe dead, certainly now unfound and a burden on the conscience.

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Steve Griffin: Here’s what I would change about Lower Peninsula deer regs

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In a treestand, free of distractions including deer, I pondered: what would I change about Lower Peninsula deer hunting in Michigan?
I’ve asked myself and buddies, as the current season plays out: If drawing up all-new rules on a blank sheet, what might we include?

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Steve Griffin: No disappointment in taking a Michigan doe

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I kept waiting for the disappointment.
It didn’t come. I’d seen a deer dart across the abandoned lane over which I was sitting. I heard scrambling in the brush and, this being the thick of the rut, figured a buck was chasing a doe. Sure enough, a mature doe walked out of the thicket and paused to look back, 25 yards away.

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A new spawning reef will benefit Michigan’s Saginaw Bay fish

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If you build it, bending a phrase from the classic baseball film “Field of Dreams,” they will come. And spawn.
“They” are fish, and the proof is in reproduction observed on the Coreyon Reef, constructed five years ago about seven miles off Saginaw Bay’s eastern shoreline in Michigan and now known to have attracted spawning walleyes and lake whitefish.

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Steve Griffin: The lure of the surf and chance at a big fish is alive and well

Featured, Features, Fishing, Home Page News, Michigan, National Fishing /

We’re a long way from the phrase’s origins, cradled as we are by fresh, not saltwater seas, and yet there’s something that stirs some anglers’ souls by the notion that “surf’s up!”
Sure, on the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, the Gulf of Mexico, and even some Great Lakes shorelines, “Surf’s up!” signals a scramble for boards and, often, wetsuits. That’s fun. I found out when I tried it a half-century ago. But what I truly love about surf is the great fishing that can accompany a series of breaking waves.

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Steve Griffin: Creating wake in a no-wake zone on Michigan waters can court trouble

Featured, Home Page News, Michigan, Nature Page & Night Sky /

The horn’s blare was aimed at us, a grandpa and grandson putting through one of the extensive slow/no-wake sections of Spring Lake and adjacent Grand River in Michigan.
We’d been talking, as such oldster/youngster teams do, about anything and everything. Now we were talking about (and soon with) an officer at the bow of the Sheriff Department Marine Patrol Boat, its bright blue light flashing on the hardtop.

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Steve Griffin: Is new technology in hunting and fishing better, worse, or just different?

Featured, Fishing, Home Page News, Hunting, Michigan, National Fishing, National Hunting, Opinion /

I cringe when I hear talk of the “good old days.”
I know for many, the past is cloaked in warm memories, and I’ve got a few of them, but for me there’s also a lot of cold feet, deer-free woods, clunky fishing tackle, and hassles of all kinds in my mental scrapbook. I’ll take today, any day.

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Steve Griffin: Antlerless-only rule for special hunts in Michigan is a bad idea

Featured, Home Page News, Hunting, Michigan, National Hunting, Opinion /

Among the deer regulation changes considered and acted upon by the Michigan Natural Resources Commission a few weeks ago, I don’t like the change in September (Liberty – for youths and hunters with disabilities) and October (Independence – for disabled veterans and other hunters with disabilities) special hunts.
In a professed effort to boost the harvest of antlerless deer, both hunts will become antlerless-only beginning next year. The July slate of proposals reflected, in large part, the wide range of issues and potential solutions surrounding the Michigan white-tailed deer. The big issues, though, boil down to two, at least in the Lower Peninsula: too many deer on the landscape, and a shrinking number of hunters to harvest them into balance.

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