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Michigan’s 2015 Big-Game, Furbearer Seasons Look Good
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Michigan’s 2015 big-game, furbearer seasons look goodProspects for the 2015 Michigan big-game hunting and furbearer hunting seasons are very good, say DNR wildlife biologists. Michigan offers a diversity of species and a wide variety of seasons to maximize recreational opportunity.
Here's a quick overview of some of the upcoming seasons:
Bear
Season: Bear licenses are issued by a preference-point system for specific time periods and geographic areas. A total of 6,951 licenses were available.
Hunting on the mainland of the Upper Peninsula runs Sept. 10-Oct. 26. On Drummond Island, the season is Sept. 10-Oct. 21. In the northern Lower Peninsula, the season is Sept. 20-28 and Oct. 2-8 (archery only) in the Red Oak unit; Sept 11-26 in the northern Baldwin unit and Sept 20-28 in the entire unit; and Sept. 20-28 in the Gladwin unit. In the Upper Peninsula, the first five days are for bait-only hunting only. In the Lower Peninsula the first day of the season is bait-only and the Red Oak archery-only season is bait-only. The last two days of the Red Oak, Baldwin and Gladwin area are dogs-only.
Bowfishing - Combining Two Pastimes into One Sport
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Bowfishing - combining two pastimes into one sport.Roy Beasley grew up fishing, but when he discovered bowhunting, he changed his technique. He became a bowfisherman.
“I still bass fish at my parents’ cottage or with the guys at work,” he said. “But I like doing this more.”
A research vessel captain with the DNR, Beasley is one of a growing number of sportsmen and women who like to combine hunting and fishing, using bows and arrows to take a wide variety of fish, including many that are generally not targeted by hook-and-line anglers.
Bowfishing is legal for bowfin, bullheads, burbot, carp (including goldfish), catfish, cisco, drum, gizzard shad, longnose gar, smelt, all species of suckers - including buffalo and quillback - and whitefish.
Beasley has taken most of them, including a number of Master Angler fish of six different species. But he particularly likes chasing gar and gizzard shad, because their narrow bodies make them more of a challenge.
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