Upper Peninsula Marquette: Fishing picked up and anglers were catching fish in the Marquette area. Lake trout were reported being caught offshore near the Chocolay River through Shot Point. Anglers were catching some coho near Shot Point in about 40 to 50 feet of water. White Rocks was a ...
MARQUETTE — Even a wild natural area needs a little sprucing up now and then. The Upper Peninsula Land Conservancy, based in Marquette, held a trail-cleaning event on Wednesday at its Vielmetti-Peters Conservation Reserve, located in Negaunee Township adjoining Marquette Township. The ...
Editor’s note: This column originally appeared in The Mining Journal on July 12, 2019. I’m not sure exactly what time it was, but it was late at night or early in the morning. I had fallen asleep watching television and I got up to head to bed. When I passed the bedroom window, I pulled ...
Upper Peninsula Keweenaw Bay/Huron Bay: Anglers in Keweenaw Bay and Huron Bay were fishing for lake trout and salmon. Anglers were mostly trolling and had success in around 150 feet and up near 30 feet as well. Most fish were caught while using flies and spoons. Fish were biting on green, ...
ISHPEMING — In a world where most men spend their lives doing things they hate, my fishing is at once an endless source of delight and an act of small rebellion; because trout do not lie or cheat and cannot be bought or bribed or impressed by power ...” Local author and Michigan Supreme ...
By Journal Staff MARQUETTE — Hunting is, of course, a popular activity in the Upper Peninsula. But some hunters prefer to revisit the past when it comes to how they take down their deer and other game. Muzzleloading, a way of hunting used by early settlers and pioneers, involves the loading of a projectile and a propellent charge, typically gunpowder, into the muzzle of the gun rather than putting a bullet into the chamber of a rifle. This style of hunting is permitted in Michigan, but deer season for muzzleloaders is later than for rifle hunters. The regular deer license ...
