
Michigan Fishing Report – July 23, 2025
The lake trout bite was very good at Big Reef and at deeper depths around Grand Island.

The lake trout bite was very good at Big Reef and at deeper depths around Grand Island.

A last-minute medical issue grounded researchers’ annual wolf-moose survey on Isle Royale this past winter, marking yet another year that scientists have run into problems trying to count the animals on the remote island park.

We’re in our mid-summer patterns now. As for the bite, the Great Lakes a good place to start.

August is prime time for salmon on the Great Lakes. Both kings and cohos begin homing in on ports where they were stocked years earlier or staging off river mouths where they were naturally reproduced.<br

Every day of the year commemorates someone or something, and when I checked www.timeanddate.com to check the exact sunrise time where I planned to fish, I inadvertently learned the 27th had been proclaimed Helen Keller

I was beginning to think this was going to be a bust. Again.
We were on the Au Sable River and by 10 p.m. my partner, Steve Sendek, said he’d seen a total of
A look at upcoming outdoors-related events from across Michigan published in the July 18, 2025, edition of Outdoor News.

If you’ve got muskies on your mind, consider a stop at Lenawee County’s Lake Hudson. While most inland lakes in southern Michigan are not well known for muskie fishing, Lake Hudson is an exception.

Michigan cuffs and collars are field reports from DNR Conservation Officers. These reports are from the July 18, 2025, edition of Outdoor News.
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