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Friday: Outdoors

Book mixes Upper Peninsula beauty with poetry

By CHRISTIE MASTRIC Journal Staff Writer MARQUETTE — The natural beauty of the Upper Peninsula is just one theme found in the next featured book of the U.P. Notable Book Club, “Superior Voyage.” The Upper Peninsula Publishers and Authors Association and the Crystal Falls Community ...

Outdoors North: U.P. provides edible bounty in August

Blackberry John left me his old recipe in his will,” – Gordon Lightfoot It was after suppertime when I backed into a makeshift parking spot off a remote two-track road. I was getting ready to wet my fishing line before the sun went down. As I came around the brushy side of my Jeep to get ...

NMU alumnus finds true calling as fishing guide

By KRISTI EVANS and IAN MCCULLOUGH Northern Michigan University MARQUETTE — Northern Michigan University alumnus Alex Ermatinger graduated in 2012 with a bachelor’s degree in environmental science and biology. After a few years working in chemical engineering and then pharmaceutical ...

Weekly U.P. fishing report from the DNR

MARQUETTE — Here are the Upper Peninsula fishing conditions as of Aug. 31 according to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources: Little Bay de Noc: Perch anglers reported slow to fair fishing, with continued success fishing and drifting minnows. Walleye anglers in the upper bay caught ...

Outdoors North: Even short trips to woods can provide much-needed respite

“Hear that lonesome whip-poor-will, he sounds too blue to fly,” — Hank Williams From a weary world of blue-black skies and gathering darkness, I stood alone in the woods along the riverbank. There hadn’t been much happening in any real sense as I walked the narrow angler’s trail, ...