Michigan Fishing Report – March 19, 2025
Michigan DNR
March 19, 2025
Pier fishing here was reported to have improved this past week with decent fishing for coho salmon and steelhead.
Michigan
Backyard and Beyond: Winter winds down
Val Cunningham
March 19, 2025
Two different species of nuthatches might visit our feeders in winter, but how often does anyone see both at the same time? Rich Carlson caught a white-breasted (left) and a red-breasted nuthatch at his suet
Rabbit hunting is ‘old hat’ but offers plenty of fun
Andy Duffy
March 19, 2025
Sometimes wrinkled ennui accompanies the outdoor writing process. I’ve been writing for years now, mostly for my local newspaper. I’ve treated the same topics over and over. And I’m fairly certain I’m not alone in
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reopens public comment period for monarch butterfly Endangered Species Act listing proposal
USFWS Reports
March 18, 2025
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is reopening the public comment period for a proposed rule to list the monarch butterfly as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.
The proposed rule includes
April means steelhead fishing at its finest in Michigan
Mike Gnatkowski
March 18, 2025
April is synonymous with steelhead fishing in Michigan. Some streams and rivers open to fishing on April 1. Others are open year-around, still others open on the last Saturday in April. But April Fool’s Day
Confirmation of cougar kittens in Michigan creates quite a stir as the DNR seeks more answers
Bill Parker
March 17, 2025
Photographs of a pair of cougar kittens confirmed to have been taken in Michigan’s western Upper Peninsula have created more questions than answers, but it has also created quite a stir in Ontonagon County and
Russ Mason: DOGE cuts impacting fish and wildlife management
Russ Mason
March 17, 2025
There’s been plenty of recent attention paid to Elon Musk and the effects of his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Unsurprisingly, little has been said about impacts to natural resources conservation.
The exceptions have
Steve Griffin: Michigan’s Mullett Lake produces prized perch
Steve Griffin
March 16, 2025
“What a toad!” Andrew Hendrickson exclaimed, as the fat, brilliantly marked yellow perch slid over the lip of the hole and onto the ice within his flip-over shelter on Michigan’s massive Mullett Lake.
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Search with purpose, and you can add to – or start – your shed antler collection
Joe Shead
March 15, 2025
It’s been said that looking for shed deer antlers is like looking for a needle in a haystack. I know people who have hunted deer for decades but who’ve never found a shed. The reason
