The white-tailed deer is known as one of Nature’s most adaptable animals. Hunters do, and need to, adapt, too.
The whitetail has shifted smoothly through any number of environmental and human societal changes. It expanded its range into new growth created by the logging-off of Michigan and demise of its elk and moose.
Steve Griffin: Whitetails adapt, and hunters need to adapt, too Read More »
Don was grumpy.
He’d booked a half-day guided fishing trip on the Manistee or Muskegon rivers, I don’t recall which, and he and his wife had taken a day off work to fish and celebrate an anniversary.
They would float the stream, learn some tactics new to the long-time bass fisherman, and maybe bring home some prime eating in steelhead fillets. As Don loaded their gear into the guide’s drift boat, he snapped to attention when told the day’s fishing would be catch-and-release.
Reduced steelhead limit in Michigan not based on science Read More »
Excited, kids and their parents lined up along the edge of the parking lot of the Caldwell Boat Launch on the Tittabawassee River at Midland, Mich., ready to liberate baby lake sturgeon.
Many dozen strong, they’d listened to Justin Chiotti of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service present a primer on the sturgeon, a long abused and neglected Michigan native species for which a recovery effort has been mounted, including the imminent release. The specially designed hatchery truck contained about 500 young sturgeon, bound for the Tittabawassee, Shiawassee, Cass, and Flint rivers, tributaries of the Saginaw River, which flows into Saginaw Bay.
Lake sturgeon release is a win-win event as recovery efforts continue in Michigan Read More »
Looking up hunting rules on the handy Michigan DNR Hunt Fish phone app, I spotted the “Drawing results” box and remembered I’d entered a permit lottery.
Clicking that button, I discovered I’d been drawn for a afternoon hunt one of the early weekends of the season at the Nayanquing Point Wildlife Area, a longtime favorite spot, maybe because of its smallness compared to Fish Point or Shiawassee. Early in my outdoors writing career I covered the conversion of Nayanquing to managed hunting, with numbered blinds and daily drawings to accommodate more hunters.
Setting sights on a waterfowl hunt at Michigan’s Nayanquing Point Read More »
Call it the irony of Saginaw Bay fishing: Happy walleye anglers, this year posting what may be their best season ever, are catching only a small percentage of the Bay’s super-abundant walleyes.
Only a minuscule percentage of millions of perch, meanwhile, are living more than one year, yet in jumbo-sided schools they’re providing some memorable angling days. Yeah, that’s ironic.
Can perch and walleye live harmoniously in Michigan’s Saginaw Bay? Read More »
Michigan’s deer managers aim to enhance “deer hunting opportunities for Michigan deer hunters this year and beyond,” according to a recent news release announcing several changes in regulations.
That’s a good goal, more opportunities for the state’s hunters, implicitly to shoot more deer – but they fall short of what we need. We need more people who want to shoot more deer.
Digesting Michigan’s deer regulation tweaks Read More »
“June on Saginaw Bay will be game on,” a walleye fan proclaimed online in early May, and the prospect made me smile.
As the weather and the water warm and the days stretch to their longest daylight spans, the Bay’s open-water fishing can be expected to get better and better.
What I really love is the first high-SPF-sunscreen trolling days on the Bay, when a jacket feels good in the morning, the afternoon begs for a cold beverage, and walleyes await your choice of methods.
It’s ‘game on’ for Saginaw Bay walleyes in Michigan Read More »
My friend Rick hunkered down in a blind at the edge of a small opening on his forested land on the first day of the turkey hunting season this year.
Stretching out the spring turkey season in Michigan Read More »
I drove up into north-central Lower Michigan to steal one last, late-March day of ice fishing from the waning season, one of the most disappointing in my memory.
Ice-making temperatures arrived slowly, painfully slowly, and many lakes didn’t have even walkable ice until February. Some never bore a bootprint.
Michigan’s ice fishing season of 2023 was disappointing for most Read More »
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