Category Archives: Hunting & Fishing

Photo Friday: Fishing on the Dock by pablohart

June 12, 2009 – 11:26 am

pablohart (Paul Hart) lives in Grand Rapids.
His sets include Labor Day Bridge Walk, Farmer's Market and Michigan Select (slideshow). He was also recently in the Big Apple.
Cast your line in his Flickriver.

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Camping at the Sleeping Bear Dunes

June 11, 2009 – 11:12 am

This feature by former Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore park ranger Bill Herd appears courtesy Leelanau.com. It's part of a summerlong feature America's Lakeshore: A Comprehensive Guide to the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. There's tons more information available at that link!
by Bill Herd
Camping is as American as apple pie—oops, I mean cherry pie. It’s [...]

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Michigan morels and the Boyne City Mushroom Festival

April 20, 2009 – 7:30 am

morel mushroom by Latitude 45
The Boyne City National Morel Mushroom Festival takes place May 14-17, 2009. This year is the 49th annual*, and the 4 day celebration of the morel mushroom includes a morel seminar and guided mushroom hunt on Friday and of course the Boyne Valley Lions National Mushroom Hunt on on Saturday (be [...]

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Trout Fishing in Michigan in the 1950s

April 13, 2009 – 10:46 am

Seeking Michigan has a cool video from the 1950s by Walter Hastings about trout fishing, trolling, spincasting, and fly fishing on Michigan lakes.

Fishing Fun from Seeking Michigan on Vimeo.
Much more Michigan history at Seeking Michigan.

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Ultimate Sport Show Ticket Giveaway

March 4, 2009 – 12:32 pm

***The contest is now over*** Even if you were not one of the winners we strongly encourage you to go check out the show and keep your eye out for more ticket giveaways and contests on Absolute Michigan!
In cooperation with ShowSpan, Absolute Michigan is giving away 10 pair of tickets to the Ultimate Sport Show [...]

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Fish & Tell

January 2, 2009 – 11:58 am

Head over to Michigan in Pictures and share your favorite Michigan fish. We'll give away some free tickets to next weekend's Ultimate Fishing Show in Novi as well!
The photo is Fly Fishing by Murtasma.

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Weird Wednesday: The Giant Wolf of Flint

December 31, 2008 – 9:23 am

The last Wednesday of every month is a "Weird Wednesday" on Absolute Michigan, when Linda Godfrey brings you 100% of the USRDA of Michigan weirdness. You can listen to Linda's latest podcasts and read her blog at uncannyworld.com and also check out her books including Weird Michigan & Strange Michigan.

One consistently described feature [...]

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Changing Gears Thursday: Cars, Guards & 100 Pound Carp

November 13, 2008 – 9:51 am

Tom's Vision by G0Da
From the Pistons changing point guards and changing Tayshaun Prince to "point forward" to a Presidential campaign in which change was the overwhelming theme, "change" has been very much in the air of late.
One part of Michigan that is certain to see change is the auto industry. The Globe & Mail notes [...]

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What about water Wednesday?

November 12, 2008 – 11:34 am

AuSable river flood waters by sunrisepenny
Michigan is known as The Great Lakes State, but we could easily be called "The Water State". 10,000 lakes? Please. Michigan has over 11,000 lakes (15,000 if you count the little ones!). All that water - FRESH water - means that Michigan has a big responsibility.
Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation [...]

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Deer Diary, it's Monday and there's snow in Michigan

November 10, 2008 – 10:06 am

Better Hide! by reddeviltj
There's a light dusting of snow on the ground, something that no doubt has Michigan's 3/4 of a million deer hunters counting the days until Saturday. Our Opening Day of Michigan deer hunting season post from last year has links to all the details about the November 15-30 firearm deer season.
mLive is [...]

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