Fishing Michigan

Once upon a time, these pesky, fish killing birds were kept under control, then the tree huggers got involved.  Like the explosion in rabies cases in New York when they banned trapping,  Michigan had a population explosion of these fish killers.  The perch population around Drummond Island was almost wiped out.

If you see those birds who resemble those cute Loons from “On Golden Pond”, you can report them to the DNR.  They want information for tracking, nesting and numbers to better handle the situation.

Click on ” Cormorants “  if you have info to share.

If you have ever caught something and were not sure what it was exactly, now the DNR has an online resource available for folks to find out.

On the ” Identify Your Fish ” page, you can click on a common name, scientific name and the family in which the fish belongs to find out what it looks like, and lots of background information.

So if you were fishing on the Detroit River for bass or walleye and caught this:

And you knew it was a sturgeon, but not sure what type, you could go to the page and look it up.  This pic is what you would find on the website when you click on Lake Sturgeon.