We’re just days away from the opening of numerous Michigan fishing seasons: Bass Catch & Keep Season: Starts May 28 on all waters including Great Lakes Starts June 18 on Lake St. Clair and St. Clair & Detroit Rivers Muskellunge, Northern Pike & Walleye: Starts April 30 […]
Time to book a walleye and perch fishing trip The daily bag limit will be six walleye from May 1 through Feb. 28, 2017. A 15-inch minimum size limit is in effect during the entire season for walleye. The yellow perch daily bag limit will be 30 from May 1 through April 30, 2017, with […]
Belle Isle Park continues to make its mark as Michigan’s 102nd state park Belle Isle Park – Detroit’s gem and Michigan’s 102nd state park – offers four seasons of enjoyment and wonderment for visitors from around the state, the nation and the world. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources, the Belle Isle Conservancy, the city […]
03-03-2016 By Howard A. Tanner One of my frustrations in my retirement has been a difficulty in speaking out on issues that are of some concern to me. Being 92 has its limitations – but my friends assure me, it’s not limited my expertise. But I’m speaking out today to express my strong opposition to […]
The University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute’s R/V Dawn Treader is mostly full of scuba-diving equipment with two maritime archeologists and three volunteer divers from Madison squished in between. They came to Manitowoc County to survey the S.C. Baldwin shipwreck, a requirement to add the vessel to the state, and eventually national, Register of Historic […]
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 […]
The Department of Natural Resources announced today that the daily possession limit for walleyes in Michigan’s waters of Lake Erie will remain at six through April 30, 2016. In 2011 Michigan adopted a process for setting creel limit regulations that allows the DNR to use real-time population data instead of using year-old survey results. This […]
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 […]
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 […]