Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the April 24, 2026 edition of Michigan Outdoor News.
Unusually thin lake trout in Lake Superior – specifically siscowet lake trout – have prompted Michigan and federal agencies to launch a new assessment to determine the cause.
Lake trout, the most abundant predator
No fewer than 10 dozen female wild turkeys will be fitted with GPS transmitters as part of a “first of its kind” project aimed at helping Michigan DNR better understand the bird.
Movements and
DNR officials have proposed a “one buck rule” to restrict every hunter in Michigan to a single antlered deer per season statewide. The goal, as stated, is to better balance the statewide harvest and drive
Crappies, walleyes settling into spring patterns. A look at the Michigan fishing report across the state on April 17, 2026.
Anglers here had great success targeting walleye not too far out of the Sterling State Park channel and north of that in 15 to 20 feet of water, trolling with artificial lures.
Fish and wildlife conservation operates at the intersection of science, public values, and politics. Tensions are unavoidable, but increasingly, it’s tipped too far towards popularity. When conservation becomes a contest for public approval rather than
The first time I ventured out on a Great Lake to troll for salmon was on a small boat with a small outboard.
There were three of us, each of us had brought our
Support for a regulation that would limit the state’s deer hunters to the harvest of one antlered deer per season instead of two has varied in recent years, but the Michigan Natural Resources Commission (NRC)
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