More than 820,700 fish were stocked in 2025. Columnist Ken Grabowski urges sustained DNR-tribal partnerships to keep Manistee’s fishing economy thriving.

A project to save a popular fishing spot will be finished this year, with water levels expected to return to normal by 2027.

My dear friend and river guide, Drew Oliver, went fishing on Jan. 12. Which isn’t very remarkable. What’s remarkable is he ...

More than two dozen public access sites across the Upper Peninsula are being plowed and kept open for ice anglers.

Robert Kohrman, a retired chemistry faculty and administrator at Central Michigan University, has an obsession with books ...

The spring-fed Sturgeon River drops an average of 14 feet per mile as it flows from Gaylord into Burt Lake, creating ideal conditions for winter rafting excursions through snow-covered cedar forests.

The season is allotted for Feb. 7 until the afternoon of Feb. 11, but will likely end sooner. Once a quota of six fish is reached or five fish are harvested at the end of one of the fishing days, the ...

Will the Black Lake lake sturgeon fishing season again set a time record in 2026? We'll find out Feb. 7 when the season begins — and most likely also end. The 2026 lake sturgeon fishing season on ...

The 2026 lake sturgeon fishing season on Black Lake in Cheboygan County, Michigan, will begin at 8 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 7. | Michigan Department of natural Resources Anglers looking to bring home a ...

The traditionally shortest fishing season in the State of Michigan – the one for Black Lake sturgeon - will open Feb. 7. The sturgeon spearing fishing season will last for four days at Black Lake in ...

James from Michigan Relic Hunter invited me to one of the most incredible relic hunting sites I’ve ever seen. This Michigan river runs through the remains of a mill that burned down in the late 1800s.