Michigan’s statewide fishing report on April 18, 2025
Staff Report
April 18, 2025
Walleyes and steelhead are keeping anglers busy. Here’s a look at the Michigan fishing report across the state on April 18, 2025.
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Streams of Thought: U.S. House bill to delist wolves clears committee; what’s it really mean?
Tim Spielman
April 17, 2025
But will that change, in a (somewhat) new and inventive way? I tend not to get too worked up, as it were, when the subject matter is wolf management, by state governments or the one
Michigan Fishing Report – April 16, 2025
Michigan DNR
April 16, 2025
Pier anglers here were landing steelhead and coho salmon on spawn in the mornings in good numbers and sizes.
Steve Griffin: Michigan trout anglers get a fresh start on Opening Day
Steve Griffin
April 14, 2025
Michigan trout season offers a real opening, going from no fishing to plenty of it. And, it just gets better and better.
We like fresh starts. The first day of school. Ash Wednesday or
Wisconsin’s Hunter Nation meeting sees strong turnout to discuss wolf delisting, crane hunt
Beckie Gaskill
April 14, 2025
More than 100 sportsmen braved a snow and ice storm late Sunday, March 30, to attend a Hunter Nation meeting in Ashland, Wis., where issues ranging from wolf management to so-called “weather warfare” were discussed.<br
Mike Schoonveld: Are fish guts food, fertilizer, or garbage when a fish house isn’t available?
Mike Schoonveld
April 13, 2025
My first fishing trip of the season was successful. The cohos were in southern Lake Michigan, right on schedule, and my friend and I caught our limits plus a bonus brown trout.
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Michigan’s Sturgeon River steelhead make for decades worth of opener memories
Mike Gnatkowski
April 12, 2025
We’ve lost track over the years, but this spring is between our 35th and 40th year that our close-knit group of high school buddies will have spent the trout opener on the Sturgeon River near
Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson offers wolf delisting bill
Beckie Gaskill
April 11, 2025
The battle to permanently delist the gray wolf in the lower 48 states continues at the federal level now that U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) joined two other senators last week to offer their version
Wolf delisting bill moves onto House of Representatives floor
Beckie Gaskill
April 11, 2025
Federal wolf delisting took one small step closer to becoming reality as members of the House Committee on Natural Resources passed the Pet and Livestock Protection Act, H.R. 845, out of committee by vote of
