
Mike Schoonveld: Cisco fishing can be easy, but not always
Just when I thought I had it figured out, I found out there’s more to cisco fishing at Michigan’s Grand Traverse Bay than I thought!
It reminds me of the time an acquaintance told

Just when I thought I had it figured out, I found out there’s more to cisco fishing at Michigan’s Grand Traverse Bay than I thought!
It reminds me of the time an acquaintance told

I’ve been doing a fair number of two-species fishing trips in recent years, where we fish for one target species for a while, then switch gears and try for something else.
In the spring,

Times are tough for the steelhead in lakes Michigan and Huron and they may get tougher.
Invasive quagga mussels now carpet the bottoms of both lakes and their filter feeding has greatly reduced the plankton

The state of Michigan likes to be a trendsetter.
Michigan took the lead in raising funds to keep invasive Asian carp out of the Great Lakes and contribute more funds to that effort than

Hunters registered a total of 1,905 black bears in Michigan during 2023 seasons, according to preliminary figures from the DNR. That total is down 68 animals from last year, but almost identical to the 1,907

Fifteen-year-old Dylan Meyer from Zeeland, Mich., shot a 20-point nontypical buck in Ottawa County on Sept. 10, the second day of the 2023 youth deer hunt, that is now the state record in the youth

Preliminary data from the Michigan DNR shows the 2023 state white-tailed deer harvest is down significantly, though the reasons why may not become clear until next year.
With roughly 85% to 90% of

A study recently published by a University of Minnesota research team shines new light on deer behavior, by comparing populations considered “savvy” and “naive” to wolf predation.
Dr. Ellen Candler, postdoctoral associate and lead

Culls in one form or another are how we produced domestic animals and many crop varieties (selective breeding is a form of culling).
It’s been used to change antler qualities behind fences and tried
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