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DNR meets with road commission on Eagle Access
The development of the Eagle Lake public access near Edwardsburg, Mi. will take a small step forward this week.
The Michigan DNR will meet with the Cass County Road Commission at Thursdays morning meeting to finalize the lease agreement and is expected to grant the DNR rights to develop a boat launch along Eagle Lake Road.
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Welcome to our new look as we start our fifth year with Michiana Outdoors News.
As you can see, weve redesigned this site to make it a little more flexible, livelier and hopefully easier for our loyal visitors to navigate.
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What in the world is going on?
Weve got a real, live bear wandering northern Indiana and gray wolves have moved into Michigans Lower Peninsula.
And then last week, the Michigan DNR put out a report that a bear attacked a hunter in ground blind just north of Mt. Pleasant.
Get used to it, says Indiana wildlife biologist Budd Veverka, Indianas newly appointed bear biologist. Wildlife is expanding and adapting.
This wont be the last bear we see in Indiana, insisted the biologist who has studied bears since he was 14 years old. It will take a few years, but theyre going to expand their range into Indiana.
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By Louie Stout
The next time you go to the gas pump, pay attention the ethanol rating before you stick that nozzle into your boats gas tank.
In fact, you should note the type of gas youre putting in your lawn mower, chain saw, snowmobile, motorcycle or any other small gas-fired equipment you have around the house.
While the warning may be premature around here, the day is coming when gas pumps will be offering fuels that contain 15 percent ethanol (E15). Its already offered at some pumps in 24 states.
That might burn fine in your car or truck, but its bad news for smaller engines and outboards.
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Humans werent the only creatures affected by the long, hard winter and cold, wet spring.
The freakish weather patterns also played havoc with the fish community and might explain why anglers are cleaning fish that still have eggs, according to Michigan fisheries biologist Jay Wesley.
In this part of the country, bass typically spawn in late April and into May while bluegill bedding starts in late May and can run into July.
But this is August and some anglers report that theyre still finding fish containing eggs. One angler reported finding eggs in every bass he cleaned from Eagle Lake recently.
Of course, not all fish spawn at once and bluegill have been known to spawn twice in the same summer season. But these bass should have been done with that.
Wesley says that a bass retaining eggs this late in the year is either the result of conditions not being right for that fish to spawn in the spring, or the fish was carrying immature eggs that are in early stages of development for next springs spawn.