FALL TURKEY HUNTING

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A Great Opportunity... The woods are quiet and still. It is 0-dark thirty and I walk a familiar path to my chosen ambush site, trying to get there before the birds awaken from their roosted slumber. When I reach my destination, I take a seat and relax… yes relax....
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BEAVER PROBLEMS

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Beaver populations have been relatively high for many decades due to lack of extensive trapping and abundant beaver food habitat like aspen. Beaver can cause considerable problems for county road commissions, other government road maintenance personnel, private land...
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Lake Superior: Our Sleeping GIANT

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  Lake Superior is Michigan’s sleeping giant. The largest of all five Great Lakes, Lake Superior encompasses almost 32,000 square miles of water. To put that in perspective, Lake Erie has about 1/3 the water mass of Lake Superior. With all that water, it would...
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DEER FUNNELS . . . . The path to success!

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Both my son Greg and I are inventors, over the years we had developed many new hunting tactics along with new patented hunting products that had sustained our A-Way Hunting Products business for many years. Lately though we had become so busy with our new “A-Way...
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EARLY GOOSE SEASON

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It was the raspy sound of huge wings beating at close range that sent my heart pounding. I couldn’t get the safety off my Winchester 12 ga. fast enough as the morning silence was broken by loud blasts from Scott Goldammer’s Super Black Eagle and giant Canada...
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RECENT EDITIONS

2018 Deer Harvest and Hunters Down

2018 Deer Harvest and Hunters Down

by | Aug 1, 2019 | Archives

The decline in the number of deer hunters in Michigan continued during 2018 along with the deer harvest, according to preliminary figures released by the DNR. Although the total deer harvest was down during 2018 compared to the year before, more whitetails were...

Cisco: It’s what’s for dinner

Cisco: It’s what’s for dinner

by | Aug 1, 2019 | Archives

The Great Lakes cisco is one of those fish that is known by a number of alias names. Chubs, lake herring, tullibee are just a few of the names that anglers have tagged onto the cisco. History of Ciscoes in Lake Michigan At one time ciscoes were considered one of the...

Mid-summer into fall… a crankbait can do it all

Mid-summer into fall… a crankbait can do it all

by | Aug 1, 2019 | Archives

Casting or trolling, my favorite lure is a crankbait... A flip of the lid of any of my tackle totes will prove that; they’re almost all filled with Rapalas of all shapes and sizes, each model with a specific action of its own. I use them often, late summer through...

A National Bass Fishing Powerhouse

A National Bass Fishing Powerhouse

by | Aug 1, 2019 | Archives

A small Michigan College is building a reputation as… Collegiate level bass fishing is growing each year in Michigan. Colleges and Universities including Western Michigan, Central Michigan, Michigan State, Northern Michigan, Grand Valley, Lake Superior State and...

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