Northern Michigan Deer Hunting Headed for a Comeback

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Published: 06 November 2012

(Provided by Michigan DNR)

You really don’t have to have a lot of gray in your hair to remember when deer hunting was largely a northern Michigan endeavor. There was a long tradition of going to deer camp somewhere north of Clare, and reports of traffic jams on northbound I-75 a couple of days prior to Nov. 15 were commonplace.

That trend changed through the 1990s, and somewhere around the turn of the century, the pattern reversed itself. More hunters spent more time – and killed more deer – in the southern third of the state than in the northern Lower and Upper peninsulas.

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St. Joseph River ‘Eyes Doing Fine in Indiana

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Published: 06 November 2012

By Louie Stout

Barry Ukele with the Michiana Walleye Association shows off a nice walleye he caught from the St. Joe recently. The club helps the DNR stock walleyes in the river, and, according to recent surveys, last year’s young fish survived quite well.There’s good news for St. Joseph River walleye fishermen.

Fall surveys conducted by the Indiana DNR last month revealed better-than-average success of fish stocked by the DNR and the Michiana Walleye Association in 2011.

Biologist Neil Ledet spent October evenings cruising shallow river areas between Elkhart and Twin Branch dams with electro-shock equipment looking for one-year-old fish. The fish were temporarily stunned, captured, counted, measured and released.

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