Welcome to Michiana Outdoors News, an online source for outdoors from across northern Indiana and southern Michigan.

Our plan is to provide you timely outdoors information not found in traditional news outlets. You’ll get reports of regulation changes, fishing and hunting tips, inside scoop on trophy kills and catches taken from Michiana woods and waters, fishing and hunting conditions, our assessment of new gear pertinent to our region and more.

Some of you may recognize my name from more than 30 years of magazine and newspaper reporting. I continue to produce weekly outdoors columns for the South Bend Tribune and Goshen News as well as features for Bassmaster and B.A.S.S. Times magazines. This endeavor will serve as a timelier, detailed platform and extension of what you might find in weekly newspaper columns.

Of course, it’s going to be a work in progress and evolve as we develop new ideas. We will rely on Michiana sportsmen to share their photo, how-to tips or any other viable info that we believe you’d like to see and hear about.

If you have information or photos to share, send them to info@louiestout.com.

We want to provide a current schedule of events, to include bass tournaments, hunter education courses, seminars and other Michiana activities that readers email to us.

Think of Michiana Outdoors News as YOUR connection to what’s happening on both sides of the state line, from Lake Michigan to the Ohio/Indiana border.

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