by Tyler Mehigh | Dec 4, 2024 | Fishing
By Allen Crater Once a teacher, always a teacher. I’m sure I’ll take plenty of heat for the admission, but my favorite method of chasing trout is working the banks, woody cover and deeper buckets with a fast-action fly rod and gaudy streamers. Nothing gets...
by Tyler Mehigh | Dec 3, 2024 | Hunting
By Autumn Pratt For 26 years, my mom held the record for the biggest bear shot by a female bowhunter in Michigan. And then I went on my first hunt with a compound… When I began hunting in 2014 at age six, I never imagined that I would shoot a record book bear...
by Tyler Mehigh | Dec 3, 2024 | Fishing
By Mark Romanack It’s hard to imagine anything more beautiful than a Michigan steelhead stream in the winter. There’s something surreal about fishing flowing water while a gentle snowfall blankets the ground. Michigan is blessed with more quality...
by Tyler Mehigh | Dec 3, 2024 | Hunting
By Chris Lamphere Effort to ban “wildlife killing contests” sheds light on public image consideration for conservationists. A group of animal rights activists is ramping up efforts to ban hunting contests in Michigan, and some conservationists fear this is...
by Tyler Mehigh | Dec 3, 2024 | Fishing, Hooks and Bullets
By Steven A. Griffin I sat in a cozy heated shanty two winters ago and marveled as a guide demonstrated how he could identify the location, size and even species of fish in the area around the shanty. Ice fishing provides a great setting for thinking, and over the...
