Michigan Outdoor News Fishing Report – October 13, 2025 – video
Bill Parker
October 13, 2025
Salmon fishing in rivers across the state continues to be strong. Here’s how they’re catching ’em.
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Nature Smart: A new way to monitor the amazing bird migration
Stan Tekiela
October 13, 2025
Bird migration is one of nature’s most interesting, yet mysterious events. On the surface, migration seems simple and straight forward, but it has many shades of complexity.
There are more than 11,000 species of
Backyard and Beyond: Moving marsupials
Val Cunningham
October 13, 2025
Opossums are unique and wonderful creatures, our country’s only marsupial mammal, meaning that after they’re born they develop inside their mother’s pouch, similar to kangaroos and koalas. Although many people dislike opossums, they’re actually beneficial,
Try these outside-the-box deer hunting maneuvers
John Tertuliani
October 12, 2025
Rustling leaves can be deceiving, another squirrel. A stick snapping signals something much heavier. The rhythm in the leaves causes my heart to pound from adrenalin. It has to be a deer approaching. Clutching the
Bob Gwizdz: Abundant beavers creating management dilemmas in Michigan
Bob Gwizdz
October 10, 2025
Beavers are making a comeback in Michigan. Once extirpated from the southern Lower Peninsula, the toothy critters are showing up in places such as Ann Arbor and even the Detroit River.
At one time
Michigan venison donation program serves record number of meals to those in need
DNR Report
October 9, 2025
Hunters Feeding Michigan – a Michigan Department of Natural Resources program connecting donors, wild game processors and charities to help feed those in need – processed 140,000 pounds of donated venison during fiscal year 2025,
Michigan Fishing Report – October 9, 2025
Michigan DNR
October 9, 2025
Anglers targeting lake trout reported good success here.
Pheasant season zone expansions, changes lead to more opportunities for Michigan hunters
Bob Gwizdz
October 9, 2025
As usual, pheasant season opens Oct. 20 in southern Michigan, but there are a few changes this year that should lead to increased opportunity for sportsmen.
The biggest change is that all of Zone
Outdoor Insights: Why wasn’t Pheasants Forever invited to outdoors forum meeting with Secretary of the Interior at the White House?
Rob Drieslein
October 8, 2025
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum hosted a conservation leadership forum at the White House on Sept. 4 that included about 15 executives from the nation’s big outdoors groups.
In addition to Burgum,
