Shantytowns come alive in the night, as anglers use bright lights to draw Northern Michigan smelt up from the dark bottoms of inland lakes. A frozen lake in the dead of night is a desolate place ...

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CO Troy Fondie (Orr) monitored ATV activity and forest road and spring trail closures. Some station lakes have opened, others remain ice covered. Wildland fires continue to occur. Black bears have ...

LANSING, MI — It turns out that rainbow smelt and some panfish in Michigan are not as highly contaminated with toxic ‘forever chemicals’ as previously thought. This week, the Michigan Department of ...

The new fishing license and regulation season kicks off April 1, so anglers need to be sure they have purchased a new license for the fishing season in order to enjoy Michigan’s great fishing ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — State officials believe they have solved one of the mysteries of why Lake Superior smelt are showing such high levels of PFAS contamination. The Michigan Department of ...