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Upper Peninsula Fishing Report

While fishing on the Great Lakes, be aware of commercial fishing activities ongoing near several popular ports. Commercial netting gear will be marked with tall buoys with orange flags, which may be a fair distance apart. Be aware of your surroundings and know that commercial nets and associated lines can cause entanglements with fishing gear or boat motors. If you are entangled, cut yourself free and mark the location with GPS or attach a float or buoy and leave the net in the water. If fishing gear is lost, report GPS coordinates and location to enforcement agencies such as the ...

Meeting to discuss brook trout

HANCOCK — Area anglers are invited to attend a meeting with the Michigan DNR, next week, regarding the current 10-year requirement limiting harvest to one 20" brook trout from the Pilgrim River. The meeting will take place at 4 p.m. Tuesday at the Franklin Township Hall, US 41 next to the Quincy Mine. The DNR will review results from the 10-year study limiting Brook Trout harvesting to increase Brook Trout size. According to a press release, the objective is to discuss fishermen experiences on the Pilgrim River and to provide input in support of discontinuing this restrictive ...

UP Fishing Report

The DNR Fishing Report issued August 6, 2025 Ontonagon River: The river saw a fair amount of fishing effort over the past week. Angler reports show that walleye were caught in low to fair numbers. Anglers reportedly had the best luck finding fish when trolling. Ontonagon/Silver City/Union Bay: Ontonagon saw a fair amount of angling effort over the past week. Union Bay and Silver City experienced lower efforts. Reported catches consisted of lake trout in fair numbers with occasional coho salmon and Chinook salmon also thrown in the mix. Anglers found success when trolling across a ...

Outdoors North: John Pepin

“I was in your presence for an hour or so, or was it a day, I truly don’t know – where the sun never set, where the trees hung low, by that soft and shining sea,” – Bob Dylan In that morning time, in those seemingly sacred hours, the lake was flat, stark and magnificent. There was ...

Help wanted

ESCANABA – The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is seeking mentors and volunteers to assist in staffing the DNR’s Pocket Park during the Upper Peninsula State Fair, which runs from Aug. 11-17. “So the Upper Peninsula Pocket Park is a state park located at the U.P. State fairgrounds,” said Pocket Park interpreter Sims. “We are open in the summer and offer free fishing, archery, and more. Hopefully to give people new skills for outdoor adventure. We are only a 1 acre park, our fishing pond has over 2,000 fish in it like perch, rock bass, gold and shiners. It is a super ...

Outdoors North

“The empty rooms where her memory is protected, where the angels’ voices whisper to the souls of previous times,” – Bob Dylan It was a summer day like today, many, many years ago, when the first sounds from that grand masterpiece came rolling across my brain. Those intricate lyrics, ...