Michigan Outdoor News Fishing Report – April 12, 2023 – video
Site Staff
April 12, 2023
River fishing has been pretty good, as well as that on the Great Lakes.
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Staff Report
April 12, 2023
Outdoor-related news items from across Michigan published in the April 14, 2023 edition of Michigan Outdoor News.
Michigan’s ice fishing season of 2023 was disappointing for most
Steve Griffin
April 12, 2023
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,
Making the most of Michigan’s steelhead limit
Bob Gwizdz
April 12, 2023
Jim Romine holds a steelhead he caught on a recent outing on the St. Joseph River. He and the author have been fishing the spring steelhead run around the state together for many years.
Anglers gather for sucker run on the Rifle River in Michigan
Jack Ammerman
April 12, 2023
Most years, towards the end of March and well into April, there are two migrations associated with the Rifle River in Omer, Mich. One of the migrations is the huge numbers of suckers that leave
Having the proper net is an important tool in fishing
Jeff Frischkorn
April 11, 2023
When it comes to sport-angling landing nets, many fishermen seemingly know they need them, though they don’t always get equal play with the rest of their toys. I mean, anglers think nothing of spending $10
Michigan groups rally to preserve Cornwall Creek Flooding dam
Victor Skinner
April 10, 2023
Efforts are underway to save the Cornwall Creek Flooding dam in the heart of Pigeon River Country, but the uphill effort is not expected to prevent a drawdown scheduled for this summer.
Local residents
Night-fishing tactics to catch lunker trout
Tori McCormick
April 9, 2023
Whether you fish Wisconsin, Minnesota or Michigan, the allure of stream-trout fishing under the cover of darkness is no secret: It’s all about catching monster trout.
No one knows how many trout anglers fish
Alewife numbers stable as researchers find no significant change in biomass in Lake Michigan
Steve Begnoche
April 7, 2023
In recent years, anglers had challenged findings of the annual prey fish surveys stating they saw more alewife than the surveys indicated were present. Anglers contended Lake Michigan could support more Chinook salmon than were
