If you were to hold a beauty contest for Michigan’s fish species, you’ll get a lot nominees: brook trout, steelhead, yellow perch – especially pre-spawn hens when their fins glow bright orange – or any
I am often surprised by how many of my fellow Michiganders say they have never been to the Upper Peninsula. The recreational opportunities – above and beyond hunting and fishing – are outstanding, of course.<br
We’re a long way from the phrase’s origins, cradled as we are by fresh, not saltwater seas, and yet there’s something that stirs some anglers’ souls by the notion that “surf’s up!”
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Now is one of the best times to be on the water, with the big fish coming out and putting on the feed bag for winter.
When I started my career as a DNR fisheries management biologist in northern Michigan in the 1970s, there were fewer muskie waters available. Also, the overall size structure of muskies in them was much smaller
Fishing here improved greatly this past week. Pier anglers were beginning to catch steelhead and whitefish.
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.
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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.
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A quiet lake with relatively light fishing pressure, Frenchman Lake in Chippewa County offers anglers a mixed bag of panfish, pike, bass, and walleyes.
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