Summer is in full swing in Michigan, and with it comes great opportunity for outdoor activities – including fishing. The state’s waters provide ample opportunity to catch a variety of fish, and Great Lakes and inland fishing charter businesses are a perfect way to experience those angling adventures first-hand. Licensed fishing charters make a full […]
About 360 wrecks have been found in the lake’s deep water, but there are still many wrecks out there that remain undiscovered. Experts guess there are between 1200 and 2000 shipwrecks in Lake Michigan. On Feb. 9, 1899 the 214-foot John V. Moran maneuvered ice floes on its way from Milwaukee to Muskegon to deliver […]
Walleye fishing has really picked up this past week, thanks to a steady weather pattern. Many limit catches have been taken all week from “E” buoy to the Raisin River in 22 feet of water. Wiggle warts have been good off the planner boards keeping small walleye (spikes) from biting 70 to 80 feet back […]
Steve VanDerLaan is a busy guy this time of year. As the Michigan Department of Natural Resources’ statewide fish-stocking biologist, it’s VanDerLaan’s job to get the annual hatchery production – in the vicinity of 18 million fish weighing 395 tons – out to the state’s lakes and streams during a roughly eight-week window. Stocking events […]
Piping Plovers, are expected to return to the dunes and shores of the Great Lakes in the coming weeks, according to Vince Cavalieri with the U.S. Fisheries and Wildlife Service. Typically the first pairs show up on the week of April 6, with the rest of the flock in a few weeks. Known for their […]
3/15/2015 It can be a luxurious feeling to apply a good skin cleanser to your face and feel the accumulated dirt, grime and oils wash away. But it turns out such seemingly innocent indulgence carries an unexpected environmental cost, particularly for those of us who live near the Great Lakes. The unexpected culprits are micro […]
STURGEON BAY, WI — The freighter Arthur M. Anderson finally made port this week after an end-of-the-season Indiana to Ohio run became a nearly month-long futile slog across three iced-over Great Lakes. The 63-year-old laker, famous for its role in the Edmund Fitzgerald sinking, entered winter lay-up in Sturgeon Bay, Wis. on Wednesday morning, March […]
After Michigan’s salmon program kicked off in the 1960s, Platte River State Fish Hatchery in Beulah was quickly labeled as the primary Pacific salmon hatchery for the state. With the wild success of the salmon fishery in the Great Lakes, production ramped up swiftly with more than 5 million Chinook salmon and about 3 million […]
Join staff from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources’ Wildlife Division Saturday, March 14, for a hike through the woods of Belle Isle looking for signs of predators and prey on the Detroit island park. The tour begins at 10 a.m. at the Belle Isle Nature Zoo parking lot, at the corner of Lakeside Drive […]
A species of shrimp native to Eastern Europe is now a cause for concern for biologists studying the Great Lakes. Its scientific name is Dikerogammarus villosus, but experts know this voracious crustacean simply as the killer shrimp. The shrimp itself is only about an inch long, but its large mandibles make it an aggressive predator and […]