Many Michigan anglers are versatile, multi-season, multi-species generalists. Not so much, members of the Fillmore family. “We were raised on a farm,” said my friend Don Fillmore, who now lives in Coleman but was raised in rural Hope. “There wasn’t time to fish in the…
If there’s an animal that’s an emblem of Michigan winter, it might be the hare. Varying hare, snowshoe hare, call it what you want. Just don’t call it a rabbit, they’re different species despite their similarity–hare are born with fur and with their eyes open,…
My friend Alan Popp returned from a business trip in the northernmost tip of the Lower Peninsula just after Thanksgiving, and called me on his return. “It’s nothing I’d take a chance walking on, but some of the lakes along the highway have a skim…
Of all the Michigan lakes that anglers are watching for the formation of ice, likely none are getting the anxious attention focused on Houghton Lake. A certain type of angler is looking at (or rather, eager to look into) what is by surface area the…
There was no reason for me to be envious. After all, we had an eight-point buck in the bed of the pickup, carried in the same little square-stern canoe from which I’d shot it on a float hunt. But still, the spawning-colored brown trout hanging…
