The Michigan Department of Natural Resources recently confirmed the presence of invasive red swamp crayfish in an outdoor muskellunge rearing pond at Wolf Lake State Fish Hatchery in Mattawan, Van Buren County, Mich.
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Fishing has been good when the weather cooperates. Here’s a look at the Michigan fishing report on July 25, 2025.
Codie Carlson thought he was aiming at dinner. Instead the relatively new bow fisher went home with a new Michigan state record.
Carlson, 34, of Newport, was headed home from his job in airfield
This past winter, a group of 25 individuals, with differing opinions ranging from advocacy for to staunch opposition to federal protections for wolves, gathered for a meeting of the minds at the National Wolf Conversation.<br
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
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