fishing

It's here again! A chance to get out in Michigan and take to the ice on our many lakes and ponds for the 2019 Winter Free Fishing Weekend.

Eight waterways, totaling 540-plus miles that flow through more than a dozen counties, have been selected.

A kayaker who was fishing for salmon in Lake Michigan Monday morning got quite the surprise, but also likely helped save the life of an animal.

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources says that Lake Michigan salmon fishing is "on fire" right now, especially in the southern portion of the lake.

Troubling fish disposal along the banks of the Kalamazoo River appears to have been resolved.

A popular boat launch into the Kalamazoo River near downtown Kalamazoo has been closed temporarily.

A Madison Heights fisherman reeled in a bigmouth buffalo that broke DNR records for the state...previously held by him.

Compare a fishing boat with a dead motor stuck in the channel used by the Great Lakes freighter like having your car die on railroad tracks. The train can't stop on a dime in the same way a big boat can not either.
That's the situation a group fishing in the Detroit River found themsel…