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What's Flying: A great time to be out

“One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.” – Henery David Thoreau Well, we should get a bit of summer in the middle of … oh, wait, it is summer! This is one of those summer types the Upper Peninsula occasionally experiences, creating a clearly different ...

Outdoors North: A good day to get out into the woods

“Takes rocks and gravel, baby, to make a solid road, make a solid road,” – Bob Dylan Growing up in a turn-of-the-20th century mining company house, within sight of a hematite mine that had been in operation for nearly a hundred years before I was born, I think I always felt that the red ...

A soothing cup of herbal tea can begin in your garden

Drink a fragrant cup of herbal tea, and the intoxicating scent of steeped herbs might calm your mind before you even take a sip. Even better is when they come from your own backyard herb garden. Mine includes several ingredients for my daily cup, and they're all easy to grow and ...

DNR weekly fishing report

Munising: Boat anglers trolling the bay and around Grand Island picked reported catching a few Chinook salmon and coho salmon, along with a few splake. Anglers trolling and jigging for lake trout also had good success. Keweenaw Bay/Huron Bay: Anglers reported good numbers of coho salmon being caught while trolling stickbaits, spoons, and flasher-fly combinations in the upper portion of the water column. Anglers also caught chinook salmon, brown trout, and rainbow trout while trolling, although in smaller numbers. Anglers reported a slow bite while jigging for whitefish. Those targeting ...