What you need to know about Hunting with Suppressors

By Scott Crawford Michigan Out-of-Doors Firearms columnist Scott Crawford draws on first-hand experience to lay out the factors you’ll want to consider for hunting with a suppressor, now that it’s legal in Michigan.  This article appears in the Fall 2016...

Firearm Maintenance

By Scott Crawford “Take care of your tools and your tools will take care of you,” my grandpa would tell me. This simple advice would be repeated throughout my youth. It did not matter if he was talking about his lawn mower, power tools, or a simple hammer. Years...
Ice Fishing 101

Ice Fishing 101

by Bob Gwizdz On the face of it, ice fishing seems like a pretty simple affair: You punch a hole in the ice, clear out the slush and start fishing. But ice fishing is every bit as complicated as fishing in open water, though there is one major difference: There’s no...

The Fly Life

Brian Kozminski, owner of True North Trout Guide Service, penned this excellent essay on fly-tying and fly fishing culture here in Michigan for the Spring 2017 Edition of Michigan Out-of-Doors, which will hit mailboxes later this month. Subscribe today by clicking...
Cisco Troll

Cisco Troll

By David Rose If you’re an angler who loves fishing the Great Lakes, you can’t be anything but troubled by how an ever-growing number of invasive species is altering the environments of these huge inland seas, and, in turn, the populations of gamefish that...