Michigan Fishing Report – October 23, 2024
Michigan DNR
October 23, 2024
Fishing here improved greatly this past week. Pier anglers were beginning to catch steelhead and whitefish.
Michigan
Biologists preparing to analyze images from first full year of Michigan’s wolf camera study
Victor Skinner
October 23, 2024
Michigan Department of Natural Resources officials are assessing camera damage and preparing to analyze as many as 6 million trail camera images following the first full year of an ongoing wolf abundance project.
DNR
Bass, walleye catch rates improve but perch rate remains flat in Michigan’s Bays de Noc
Victor Skinner
October 23, 2024
Anglers are catching more smallmouth bass and walleyes while the perch harvest has remained flat in the Bays de Noc in recent years, trends influenced in part by invasive mussels and round gobies.
Department
Walleye stocking supplements fishery on Frenchman Lake in Michigan’s Chippewa County
Bill Parker
October 22, 2024
A quiet lake with relatively light fishing pressure, Frenchman Lake in Chippewa County offers anglers a mixed bag of panfish, pike, bass, and walleyes.
Michigan’s Outdoor Calendar
Staff Report
October 22, 2024
A look at upcoming outdoors-related events from across Michigan published in the Oct. 25, 2024, edition of Outdoor News.
CWD testing of deer taking place in Michigan’s NLP and UP areas
DNR Report
October 22, 2024
This year, chronic wasting disease testing in Michigan will still be focused in some areas of the northern Lower Peninsula as well as the Upper Peninsula.
Michigan Cuffs & Collars: Officers work together to solve case of poached 13-point buck
Staff Report
October 22, 2024
Michigan cuffs and collars are field reports from DNR Conservation Officers. These reports are from the Oct. 25, 2024, edition of Outdoor News.
Michigan teenager shoots 600-pound black bear
Richard P. Smith
October 22, 2024
Fifteen-year-old Lilly Scott from Croswell, Mich., got off to an amazing start as a hunter. Her first big game kill was a black bear with a live weight over 600 pounds that she shot on
Another unseasonably hot fall hampers Michigan’s early elk hunt
Bill Parker
October 22, 2024
When a big package arrived in the mail from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Auburn resident Dylan Lightfoot got a little nervous. “I thought, ‘Oh my God, what did I do,’” Lightfoot said.
