Southern Lower
Site Staff
January 1, 2009
Allegan Area Ice is in poor shape on most lakes in Allegan County. Anglers report a pretty good bluegill and pike bite on Pine Creek where there is up to 3 inches of good ice
Michigan
Upper Peninsula
Site Staff
January 1, 2009
Pickford Area Ice is up to 18 inches thick on Munuscong Bay and up to 10 on Muskie Bay at Cedarville. Anglers are catching excellent numbers of walleyes in Munuscong including several over 5 pounds.
Firearms harvest is close to that of ’07
Site Staff
December 18, 2008
DNR Report Lansing – The DNR has announced the preliminary estimate of the white-tailed deer harvest during the 2008 firearms season. Statewide, an estimated 272,000 deer were taken during the firearms season, Nov. 15-30. Of
Proposed regs tabled for ‘trophy’ AuSable waters
Site Staff
December 18, 2008
Lansing – The “research” rules, under which the AuSable mainstream from Mio to McKinley has become well-known trophy brown trout water, will remain in effect, as-is, for at least another year. DNR Director Rebecca Humphries
Eastern Upper
Site Staff
December 18, 2008
Pickford Area There is up to 4 inches of safe ice in the eastern U.P. Perch are hitting minnows fished in Munuscong Bay at “The Birches.” The firearms deer season was slow, but several nice
No CWD found in 9,000 wild deer
Site Staff
December 18, 2008
Lansing – Nearly 9,000 free-ranging white-tailed deer have been tested for chronic wasting disease since Aug. 25 and, so far, none have tested positive. “What that means is that we have tested a lot of
User fees to increase on some federal lands
Site Staff
December 4, 2008
Baldwin,. Mich. – Since the “fee use” program for use of recreational sites on the national forest was put in place, those using specific sites on the Huron-Manistee National Forests have had to pay a
Anglers rail at DNR Au Sable proposal
Site Staff
December 4, 2008
Lansing – Some Michigan fishing organizations say they applaud the way the DNR assembled biological information and solicited public sentiment. But they boo the agency’s proposal for the Au Sable River mainstream’s “trophy waters” from
