Michigan Changes Master Angler Program

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Published: 25 January 2013

The Michigan DNR has announced that multiple changes have been made to the state's Master Angler program that recognizes large fish caught by recreational anglers.

To determine whether changes were necessary for the Master Angler program, the DNR’s Fisheries Division reviewed entries from the past five years and determined the minimum entry weight and length needed to be updated for several species, including: Atlantic salmon, brook trout, brown trout, bullhead, channel catfish, Chinook salmon, coho salmon, crappie, freshwater drum, muskellunge, rainbow trout, rock bass and smallmouth bass.

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Get Those Reels Ready for Spring

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Published: 22 January 2013

Make your reels feel new again.Has this ever happened to you?

It’s mid-summer, you’re on the lake, the fish are bitin’ and your favorite reel begins to act up.

Make your reels feel new again.

Maybe it growls, develops a strange vibration with every turn of the handle, or the spool won’t engage.

Something like that happens to me every year. Not that I don’t have good reels; I just don’t take very good care of them.

That’s why I dropped some off at Moe Ranieri’s place the other day. In addition to working part-time in the reel department at Lunker’s, he has a tackle repair service in his Edwardsburg, Mich. home.

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