RECENT EDITIONS

BE BETTER AT JIGGING
Over the years, I’ve shared a boat with an impressive number of talented fishermen. No one learns the craft of fishing without the help of others willing to share what they have learned through the school of hard knocks. When it comes to jig fishing places such as the...

Turkey Vest Essentials
With the spring turkey season in April, now is a good time to thoroughly inspect your turkey vest to ensure you have all the essentials for a successful spring hunt. Turkey vests have evolved over the years. Once just a vest with pockets, modern turkey vests have...

MASS MONSTER
It was November 26, the Saturday after Thanksgiving, and Rick Cross was deer hunting in southern Calhoun County from a stand he hadn’t hunted all season. This particular stand overlooked a marshy lake bottom, exactly the type of place you would think whitetails would...

Michigan’s inland cisco fisheries
Michigan is blessed with at least 153 lakes around the state where native cisco can be found. Cisco, a member of the whitefish subfamily of trout/salmon, are often called lake herring in the Great Lakes, according to a research summary by Carl Latta, MDNR Research...

Saginaw River Walleyes 2023
This year will mark the first time anglers have been able to fish the Saginaw River for walleye between March 15 and the last Saturday in April since the system’s walleye began their historic comeback. In past years, anglers got a taste of the potential when ice...

Wolves in Michigan have surpassed federal and state population recovery goals for 22 years
Results from the 2022 wolf survey show population remains stable... Wildlife biologists from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources released their findings from the latest Michigan gray wolf survey. The survey, conducted in early 2022, shows the wolf...