Michigan Outdoor News Fishing Report – April 16, 2024 – video
Bill Parker
April 16, 2024
Spring-like weather is finally here, and there’s a red-hot walleye bite going on at this expansive fishery.
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Even for ‘old school’ anglers, electric knives provide an enlightening cleaning experience
Mike Schoonveld
April 15, 2024
I learned how to fillet fish when I was in the Boy Scouts, and the Scouts also taught me how to sharpen my fillet knife and keep it sharp.
Since then, I couldn’t count
Buying live sonar? Here’s what to know about rigging it on your boat
Steve Heiting
April 14, 2024
Chances are good that you have heard of forward-facing (or “live”) sonar.
Perhaps you may have already bought the relatively new fish-finding technology. Maybe you’re trying to determine if it’s for you. Live sonar
Walleyes in Green Bay ‘tribs’ getting clobbered by poachers this spring
Dean Bortz
April 12, 2024
The Wisconsin DNR and Conservation Congress may soon hear calls from fishermen to either close Green Bay tributaries to fishing during the spawning run, or allow only catch-and-release fishing during that time. That’s because law-abiding
A trout pilgrimage to Ernest Hemingway’s “Big Two-Hearted River” (Part 1)
John N. Maclean
April 11, 2024
When I was a young newspaper reporter in Chicago with short vacations and little money, I used to drive to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to fish the Big Two-Hearted River, made famous by Ernest
Bob Gwizdz: The best time to go fishing is whenever you can
Bob Gwizdz
April 11, 2024
We were fishing for Atlantic salmon, one of Jim Chamberlin’s favorite fish, on Michigan’s Torch Lake, one of his favorite fishing holes.
Atlantics, Chamberlin says, are “challenging, good fighting fish, extremely good to eat
Don’t miss these April fishing opportunities in Michigan
Mike Gnatkowski
April 11, 2024
April has anglers smiling. Winter is finally over, at least mostly… though a mid-April snowstorm is never out of the question.
On the other hand, towards the end of the month, it can be
Adult trout stocked in southeast Michigan
DNR Report
April 9, 2024
Approximately 2,800 adult trout recently were stocked by the Michigan DNR in the Huron River (Proud Lake Recreation Area, Oakland County) and Spring Mill Pond (Island Lake Recreation Area, Livingston County) in southeast Michigan. These
Mouth of Michigan’s Dead River moved at Marquette’s Upper Harbor
Richard P. Smith
April 9, 2024
The mouth of the Dead River in Michigan at Marquette’s Upper Harbor was moved back to where it was in 1939 in a joint dredging project carried out during March between the city of Marquette,
