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Outdoors North: If only we could bottle up days and keep them forever

“I wanna go where my country girl goes, back where my green grass roots are growing, I feel at ease with my country girl, yeah, she knows how to groove me,” — Nick Lowe I love to study maps. I always have. They are so intriguing and detailed, colorful and informative. Best of all, they ...

What to look for in mosquito repellents

FORT COLLINS, Colo. — There’s an old joke that mosquitoes are like family: They are annoying, but they carry your blood. Mosquito season is starting to rev up across much of the United States. And that means bug bites. When a mosquito bites you, it pierces the skin using a mouthpart ...

Achievement unlocked

While still-fishing with minnow bait recently in St. Clair County, Michigan, an angler from Adrian caught a state-record fish: a white perch weighing 2 pounds, 5.92 ounces and measuring 16.25 inches. Scott Smith was fishing with a friend on Lake St. Clair, the expansive freshwater basin that ...

Outdoors North

Somewhere I hope there still exists a summer day I knew one time that since has blown away. Drifting on a thunderstorm, I watched it disappear over a purple-blue horizon into another yesterday. It appeared when I was younger, at a time I didn’t understand the importance of those shimmering ...

Regional fishing report

Upper Peninsula Little Bay de Noc: Walleye anglers reported mixed results. Those fishing the head of the bay had limited success, with most anglers catching undersized fish, as well as some eater-sized fish. Anglers fishing in the Escanaba River and by the mouth reported fair fishing, with ...

Outdoors North: Spring is ringing out in all its magical glory

“Little darlin,’ it’s been a long, cold, lonely winter,” – George Harrison When I opened the door and popped the top on the day, the skies were just offering up the very first rays of sunshine. They stretched shadows long across the landscape while a mirrorlike silence enveloped the ...