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Friday: Outdoors

Gone fishin’

Little Bay de Noc: Walleye fishing was good. Anglers reported success when trolling or drifting crawler harnesses. Primary areas of focus for walleye anglers included south of Gladstone, out of the Ford River, as well as near the mouth of the Whitefish River. Additionally, some anglers had ...

Outdoors North: Flying through the night

“Thirty thousand feet below me you were fast asleep and thirty thousand feet above I almost stopped to weep,” - Tom. T. Hall Flying over the landscape, it was dark and cold, with vast expanses of snow accumulation visible occasionally in the blackness below. Miles and miles of ...

Two for the road

MARQUETTE — Before he goes out in the “real world” with a job and the responsibility that comes with it, new Northern Michigan University graduate Jacob Golab is setting out on an ambitious hiking experience: traveling the Upper Peninsula segment of the North Country National Scenic ...

Outdoors North

“They’re OK the last days of May” — Donald “Buck Dharma” Roeser With the chokecherry trees, spring beauties and wild strawberries in bloom, May has come and almost gone — already. In a frenetic whirl, out of the gasping death throes of winter, she ushered home the robins to ...

Gone fishin’

Upper Peninsula Little Bay de Noc: Walleye anglers reported fair to good fishing success. Anglers were having results with a variety of tactics, including casting jerk baits or jigs, as well as trolling. The mouths of the Escanaba and Whitefish rivers were the primary focus areas for many ...

Preparing for fire season

HARVEY — Michigan Department of Natural Resources firefighters are preparing for the upcoming fire season using a variety of methods and equipment. Keith Murphy, DNR fire management specialist, explained on Tuesday at the agency’s Incident Coordination Center, or ICC, in Harvey, the ways ...