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Michigan’s catch-and-release bass season opens Saturday along with walleye, pike, muskie and inland trout seasons.

Indiana’s bass season never closes.

Michigan’s regular season opens the May 24.

During the catch-and-release period, anglers may fish for bass, but it’s illegal to string ‘em up or put them in a livewell.

There could be a change coming next year. A bill in the Michigan Legislature would open the bass season year-round. The bill has passed the Senate and now sits in the House Natural Resources Committee.


The Eagle Lake Improvement Association continues attempts to stall a public access development on Eagle and Juno lakes.

According to local newspaper reports, the association, Eagle Lake Dock LLC, Michael Mrocezk and Glenn Neely have filed a lawsuit against Ontwa Township, the Ontwa Zoning Board of Appeals and the Michigan DNR with hopes of overturning the ZBA’s Feb. 25 decision that approved the DNR’s zoning application. The lawsuit charges that the DNR access doesn’t constitute a park.


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The proposed DNR access site on Eagle and Juno lakes took another step forward this week when Michigan officials met with the Ontwa Township Plan Commission to discuss its design concept.

The DNR will meet with the Cass County Road Commission next to discuss the concept, details on traffic flow on Eagle Lake Road and what it needs to do to meet Road Commission requirements.

Meanwhile, the Plan Commission provided a list of items it would like the DNR to consider in the final design before getting the township’s final approval.

(Click here for Commission’s complete document)

Those include coordination with the Cass County Road Commission for permits; signage for pedestrian and vehicle traffic; a traffic impact study; site maintenance; modern bathrooms tied to the township sanitary sewer system; Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) approvals; a buffer zone for residential areas; a drainage system; efforts to prevent spreading of invasive species; park amenities, shelters and pier/shore fishing areas.


Some really good news is coming for Cass County, Michigan anglers.

Not only did Ontwa Township Zoning Board of Appeals vote down an attempt by lake residents to block the DNR’s new access on Eagle and Juno lakes, but the state moved forward with purchase plans of the 2.2 acres between the two bodies of water.

DNR Project Manager Paul Yauk said the purchase papers were signed the day after the ZBA vote and now await the closing.

The DNR must now present its conceptual development plan for approval to the Ontwa Planning Commission March 5 at 7 p.m.