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Friday, December 05, 2025
Friday, December 05, 2025
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Several area fly tiers will come together March 23 at the Elkhart Conservation Club for the annual Tie-A-Thon to create flies for the charity group, “Reel Recovery.”
Woolly Bugger is a great fly that catches a ton of fish. It is easy to tie and a great fly to donate to the Tie-a-thon.The premise of the annual Tie-a-thon is like an old fashion barn raisin’, as several fly tiers gather to tie as many flies as they can to donate to the cause. Joining forces again this year to tie flies are with members of the St. Joseph River Valley Fly Fishers, Kalamazoo Valley Chapter of Trout Unlimited, The Brotherhood of the Jungle Cock, Reel Women, Reel Men of Indianapolis, Grand Rapids Fly Tyers, Fly Girls, Anglers of the Au Sable, Little Elkhart Chapter of Trout Unlimited, Duneland Fly Fishers and individuals.
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The 2012 Capt. Dave Johnson Memorial Polar Bear Tournament for steelhead fishermen will be held Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012.
Tournament waters are St. Joseph River from the Twin Branch Dam to the railroad bridge in St. Joseph, Mich. Tributaries to the river are off limits. Only steelhead can be weighed in.
Anglers can sign up at Starboard Choice Marine (574-257-7827) in Mishawaka until 4 p.m. Friday. Entry fee is $10 per person and there is an optional $5 Big Fish Pot. Fishing time is from 7 a.m. to noon with the weigh-in at 1 p.m. Central Park.
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(Provided by Indiana DNR)
Fishing in the area near the new sea lamprey barrier that was completed earlier this year on Trail Creek in Michigan City has been prohibited by the DNR by emergency rule.
The purpose is to protect migrating trout and salmon.
The rule, which took effect last week, prohibits the taking or possession of fish within 100 feet upstream of the barrier and from the barrier downstream to the Pottawatomie Country Club Golf Course property line, which is located adjacent to Springland Avenue in Michigan City.
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The Michigan DNR has proposed to establish a new trout stream category. Currently, there are four categories of trout streams; this proposed additional category is referred to as a Type 5 trout stream. This effort is in response to requests from anglers to increase the daily possession limit on brook trout across the Upper Peninsula.
On Type 5 stream segments, the daily possession limit for brook trout would be 10 fish and the minimum size limit would be 7 inches. All or portions of 10 Upper Peninsula rivers and tributary streams are being proposed for the Type 5 category and have been selected from existing Type 1 streams (which have a daily possession limit of five fish and 7-inch minimum size limit).
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(Provided by Michigan DNR)
Michigan Fisheries staffers at the Platte River State Fish Hatchery arrived for work a week ago to find 5,700 coho salmon dead in one of the maturation ponds at the Upper Weir.
All signs indicate the loss was from a late Thursday night vandalism act, as it appears the fish were forcibly crowded into a small area which blocked water flow through the screens and created conditions in which the dissolved oxygen concentrations became lethal.