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Nine months after two cougar kittens were documented in the Upper Peninsula, a new trail camera photo indicates the elusive animals are still alive and living with their mother.
Bass pros fish for a living. What could be better, right? Sit down with a professional angler at a  boat show, and it comes out that they do enjoy their gig, mainly because they genuinely love to fish. One perk of the job is that the tournament season doesn’t run all year long, so they do have a true offseason.
New Gear
The popularity of leader material grew exponentially after the dawn of braided fishing lines, aka superlines. Despite their prowess, these incredibly strong-for-their-diameter braids presented two significant drawbacks.
Newsflash
Au Sable River's North Branch Gets a Facelift
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Workers arrange woody debris in the North Branch of the Au Sable River. (Michigan DNR photo)Fisheries managers have been adding woody cover, often whole trees, to trout streams for close to a century. During the 1930s, the federal Civilian Conservation Corps spent countless hours building what have come to be known as “lunker structures” in some of the state’s most notable trout streams.
Over the course of the last two decades, the Michigan DNR and fisheries conservation groups have reinvigorated the campaign to increase woody cover in streams, led by efforts along the Au Sable River that use helicopters to drop whole trees into the various branches of one of America’s most famous trout streams.
But the placement of woody debris in streams can provide benefits in addition to giving trout a place to hide. Properly placed, woody cover can improve the function of streams, including helping to manage and move sediment that covers up gravel – valuable spawning and aquatic insect habitat in the stream.
Club Hosts Traditional Bowhunters Rendezvous
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The Berrien County Sportsman's Club will host its 13th annual Compton Traditional Bowhunters Rendezvous June 14-16.
This is a non-competitive traditional only event with shooters coming from all over the U.S. and Canada as well as several foreign countries.
Admission is $5 for adults while youths 15 and under are FREE. Saturday is Kids Day with free instruction for all youth.
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