An Upper Peninsula doe had a tennis ball stuck in her mouth

A 9-year-old doe with a tennis ball stuck in its mouth for weeks near Marquette was eventually hit and killed by a vehicle on County Road 480 on July 19 before the DNR could help the animal. Harvey resident Susan Andary noticed the doe with the tennis ball in her...

It’s all for sale at the Outdoor Weekend

Have you ever cut a big old tree, planning precise cuts for it to drop in a specific spot? Only to hear it crack, tilt and begin the slow groan of falling in the opposite direction, directly toward your 4-wheeler. Those moments just before impact you get this...

Fishing Brook Trout

I made my bones as an angler fishing for walleyes. I guided anglers for walleyes, competed in–and won–walleye tournaments and earned a reputation as a trophy walleye expert by learning the keys to catching them after dark when the big ones are most vulnerable. But if...

The Adaptive Whitetail

In the Northern Hemisphere, the white-tailed deer’s cyclic rhythms in physiology, metabolism, coat molt, reproduction, and general behavior are closely regulated by the changing amount of daylight, or “photoperiod.” The shortening day length in autumn triggers a...

The Evolution of Bombing

The Rapala Jigging Rap!   This is not an article to plug a sponsor. It’s a story of some smart anglers utilizing electronics and a very versatile jigging glide bait to rewrite tournament weight records and put a bunch of walleyes in live wells across the northern...

RECENT EDITIONS

ROOSTERS

ROOSTERS

You want more rooster pheasants to hunt and increased hunting locations this year, next year and for future generations? There is good news!   First, How Does It Work? Very simple. If you want more roosters stocked, you simply buy a pheasant hunting license; the...

COUGAR COVER

COUGAR COVER

The sheer-muscular-looking power of the cougar caught on Keith and Laurie Forche’s trail camera, this month’s cover, can be incredibly intimidating. And we’ve heard plenty of comments, “If that is roaming the U.P., I might skip my evening hike!” So, let’s put that to...

SMALL LAKE WALLEYES

SMALL LAKE WALLEYES

Most of the most storied walleye fisheries in my part of the world–the Great Lakes region –are huge bodies of water. Consider, say, Saginaw Bay–it’s only one small area of Lake Huron, but it’s a million acres, much bigger than any inland walleye lake in America. Those...

Cormorants

Cormorants

Their increasing population is a big problem   Outdoors enthusiasts and anglers in Michigan started seeing cormorants in increasing numbers in the last few decades. Cormorants are fish-eating birds most associated with near-shore areas of the ocean. A research...