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A group of friends and myself were headed out for a couple days of walleye fishing and even more friends were on a second boat. All of us were expecting the captains/guides to put us

A group of friends and myself were headed out for a couple days of walleye fishing and even more friends were on a second boat. All of us were expecting the captains/guides to put us

Fifty years ago, choosing a fishing line was pretty simple. It was all monofilament all the time.
Introduced in 1939, mono became the go-to line for most anglers by the 1950s. Although braided Dacron,

Eileen Cannon from Portland, Mich., bagged a massive spring black bear in Saskatchewan on May 21 while hunting with boyfriend Lonnie Pohl. It could set a potential provincial record. It was her very first bear

Despite an unsettled lawsuit on the legality of shortening Michigan’s coyote season by three months, legislation has been introduced in Lansing addressing the coyote hunting and trapping season.
House Bill 4554, introduced by Rep.

What Michigan steelhead experts know is how little they know about parts of the life-cycle of these migratory rainbow trout, and they’re mapping ways to fix that.
DNR Lake Michigan Basin Fisheries Coordinator Jay

Michigan health officials issued nearly 1,000 new or updated Eat Safe Fish guidelines for 2025, driven by samples from dozens of new waterbodies and revised thresholds for perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS).
The Michigan Department of

Earlier this year, fisheries biologists up north sounded alarms about an ominous trend threatening one of the Great Lakes’ most foundational and key fish species: lake whitefish.
Though not commonly caught by Illinois anglers,

“I think Portage and Touch lakes are two of the best lakes for anglers from downstate to try,” advised veteran angler and walleye professional Mark Martin. “Both lakes have outstanding angling for walleye, pike, smallmouth,

I was on the phone one mid-week evening with Saginaw Bay fishing guide Bill Horton, trying to book a bass fishing expedition for my brother Phil and me, when Horton casually mentioned that he was
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