Steelhead Fishing the Pere Marquette with Outfitters North [Video]

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Steelhead Fishing the Pere Marquette with Outfitters North [Video]

With the unusu­ally warm weather of March this year many out­door activ­i­ties have been impacted. We went on an early April steel­head trip with guide Jeff Hub­bard of Out­fit­ters North Guide Ser­vice. Our des­ti­na­tion was, once again, the famed Pere Mar­quette River. Jeff said he was fish­ing Con­tinue read­ing →

Ryan’s First Turkey [Video]

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Ryan's First Turkey [Video]

Michigan’s Spring Turkey sea­son has had its ups and its downs so far. The weather has not been the best, and birds have not been that vocal. As the sea­son con­tin­ues on and there are fewer hens out, hope­fully the toms will become more vocal. My goal this sea­son was to take one of my best friends out in pur­suit of his first turkey. He wanted to har­vest his first turkey with his bow. Respect­ing his wishes we set out to the woods with the cam­era and bow in hand. Con­tinue read­ing →

FREE Fishing Weekend June 9–10 2012

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FREE Fishing Weekend June 9-10 2012

In a recent email from Jim Dex­ter, Act­ing Chief of the Fish­eries Divi­sion he says “Michi­gan offers some of the finest fresh­wa­ter fish­ing in the world, with more than 3,000 miles of Great Lakes shore­line, more than 11,037 inland lakes, and more than 36,350 miles of rivers and streams. The Michi­gan Depart­ment of Nat­ural Resources’ Fish­eries Divi­sion aims to engage as many indi­vid­u­als as pos­si­ble in our state’s plen­ti­ful recre­ation oppor­tu­ni­ties, and strives to

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Becoming an Outdoors Women Program

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Becoming an Outdoors Women Program

A pro­gram offer by the DNR, Becom­ing an Outdoors-Woman pro­gram is set for June 1–3 in the Upper Penin­sula. The BOW pro­gram is for women seek­ing to improve their out­door skills. You can now reg­is­ter for the 15th annual Becom­ing an Outdoors-Woman (BOW) sum­mer pro­gram, held June 1–3 at Big Bay Health Camp, approx­i­mately 30 miles north of Mar­quette. Con­tinue read­ing →

Trout Opener is Saturday April 28th

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Trout Opener is Saturday April 28th

The Last Sat­ur­day in April marks the opener for Trout, Inland Wall­eye and Pike and Muskel­lunge. All of the infor­ma­tion that you need should be in this arti­cle, from the 2012 Fish­ing Guide, Inland Trout and Salmon Reg­u­la­tions, Inland Trout and Salmon Stream Reg­u­la­tion and other info. Con­tinue read­ing →

Pere Marquette Fishing Report 4/18/2012

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Pere Marquette Fishing Report 4/18/2012

The Pere Mar­quette Fish­ing Report comes again from Jeff Hub­bard at Out­fit­ter­sNorth. “The Pere Mar­quette fished well last week espe­cially towards the end of the week for Steel­head and Trout. We saw some cooler weather and rain. The water came up a lit­tle and has a nice stain to it. Steel­head fish­ing has started to slow. Con­tinue read­ing →

UP Fishing Report – April 22nd 2012

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UP Fishing Report – April 22nd 2012

Our friends from RiversNorth.net bring us this weeks U.P. Fish­ing report. “Finally some much needed rain­fall blessed us & rivers received a new shot of water.  Water lev­els are much bet­ter now than they have been, more like nor­mal with a bit of color.  Water temps are in the low 40’s most places as Con­tinue read­ing →

DIY Turkey Taxidermy

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DIY Turkey Taxidermy

Today marks the first day of Michigan’s Spring Turkey hunt, so what bet­ter than to give you an arti­cle you can use to dis­play and pre­serve the turkey you har­vest. The fol­low­ing arti­cle will describe step by step how to clean the turkey fan, wings and remove the spurs to get them to a fin­ished prod­uct ready to be dis­played.  Con­tinue read­ing →

Bass Season Quickly Approaching

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Bass Season Quickly Approaching

The much antic­i­pated bass sea­son is quickly approach­ing, April 28th on Lower Pen­nin­sula water & May 15 on Upper Pen­nin­sula waters. Bass are a very fun fish to catch and can be caught on many types of lures, live and arti­fi­cial. There are numer­ous places through­out the state that offer great Small­mouth and Large­mouth bass.  Con­tinue read­ing →

First Look At Michigan 2012 Licenses

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First Look At Michigan 2012 Licenses

After tak­ing advan­tage of the DNR’s E-License sys­tem I pur­chased 4 licenses for 2012 and saved 15%! Click here to read that arti­cle. I received the licenses I bought yes­ter­day in the mail, minus the fish­ing license that I printed off. This years Licenses are a nice hunters orange and made out of a more durable paper, com­pared to last years bright green licenses with adhe­sive backs. Con­tinue read­ing →

Pere Marquette River Report 4/03/2012

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Pere Marquette River Report 4/03/2012

This weeks Pere Mar­quette River report comes from Jeff Hub­bard with Out­fit­ters North. “The Pere Mar­quette Steel­head run is has slowed down quite a bit this last week. With warm water a big major­ity of the fish have now spawned and started to make the jour­ney back to the lake. We saw very lit­tle fresh fish come in on the last rain we received last week. I’m sure there are a few more Con­tinue read­ing →

Pere Marquette River Report 3/26/2012

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Pere Marquette River Report 3/26/2012

This weeks Pere Mar­quette River report comes from Jeff Hub­bard with Out­fit­ters North. “The Pere Mar­quette is still fish­ing decent despite the warm weather. With water temps and air temps reach­ing a all time high, many fish have now spawned and have started to make there jour­ney down to the Lake. We did see a small push of fresher fish towards the end of the week with rain and ris­ing water. Con­tinue read­ing →

UP Fishing Report – March 26th 2012

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UP Fishing Report – March 26th 2012

The fish­ing report for March 26th comes cour­tesy of Rivers North. “Finally some relief to this heat wave with today’s high temps around 32 degrees here in the Upper Penin­sula. Run off is vir­tu­ally over with as all of the snow is essen­tially gone, some rain will be needed to keep streams flow­ing at a rea­son­able rate. Con­tinue read­ing →