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SPECIAL TO THE CADILLAC NEWS
Steve George, of Evart, one
of a growing band of archery
hunters anticipating the arriv-
al of Michigans archery deer
season, was busy enhancing
the property where he hunts.
He stood gazing across an
irregularly shaped, tilled area
where he intends to plant a
food plot. Hell use a seed mix
that includes turnips, rye and a
couple of other grasses mixed
in.
Deer like the turnips, he
said. Theyll even come in to it
after the rst snow.
George begins thinking
about bow season each year
late in the summer. He puts in
his food plot. He puts his stands
back in trees. He practices with
his bow. I like to get procient
shooting, he said.
George likes to hunt deer, and
he is good at it. He has shot a lot
of deer, and a lot of bucks were
among them. It is not just the
deer, though, that draw him to
the woods. He puts his stands
where he can watch a variety
of wildlife.
At the edge of his future food
plot stands a tall, white pine.
He likes to put his tree stands
in white pines because he
believes the fragrance of the
pine helps cover up his scent.
He likes that particular tree be-
cause it is near a creek. While
sitting in the tree, he has seen
ducks, geese and otters in the
creek. He tossed an apple core
out of his stand one fall day.
Before long, an opossum wan-
dered by and nished the apple.
During the rut, he sometimes
watches bucks wade right up
the creek.
George doesnt hunt just pri-
vate property. He makes some
forays into the state forest, too.
The wilderness experience
appeals to him. A little bit of
the Daniel Boone disposition
reigns in us all.
If George had to choose be-
tween rie hunting and bow
hunting, the length of the sea-
son and the quietness of the
fall woods before the guns start
banging are the things that
make bow hunting special for
him.
He is quick to tell a person
that he is a meat hunter. He
likes taking venison. He likes
the idea of antler point restric-
tions anyway.
SEE RATIO ON H2
ANDY DUFFY | SPECIAL TO THE
CADILLAC NEWS
Evart bowhunter
Steve George tests
the steps of his tree
stand. George likes to
post stands in white
pines. He believes
their fragrance helps
cover his.
Early preparation enhances the bow hunters odds of success
Deer like the turnips.
Theyll even come in to it
after the frst snow.
Steve George
Archery hunter
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There is something about seeing a deer with
an impressive rack, he says. The only way well
get those is to have some discipline and let smaller
ones go. If we all jump on the bandwagon, it will
make a difference.
George understands the importance of shooting
does. He is willing to do his part to reduce herd
numbers and to keep buck-to-doe ratio in balance.
More than 54,000 hunters bought archery licenses
in Michigan last season, and they had a success
rate that rivaled that of gun hunters. The typical
bow hunter spent more days aeld than the typical
rearms hunter, too. That just makes sense. Ar-
chers have a longer season than rearms hunters
do. During the early archery season, the weather is
pleasant, and the rut begins before rearms season
does. If the thought of rut-crazed bucks running
around doesnt draw a person into the woods, little
will.
Archery deer season opens Oct. 1 and runs
through Nov. 14. It resumes Dec. 1 and runs through
Jan. 1. If a hunters preparations have a direct
impact on his deer harvest, at some point in the
season, George will have more venison to put in his
freezer. Even if all the deer in the woods elude him,
though, he will probably have gathered more mem-
ories of ducks and geese. He will have heard a buck
splashing up the creek. He may see another opos-
sum wander by and nish up an apple. As all hunt-
ers know, the success of a hunt is not measured by
the amount of game that makes it to the freezer.
ANDY DUFFY | SPECIAL TO THE CADILLAC NEWS
Evart bowhunter Steve George surveys the soil he has worked up and ready to get seeded. The purchases hunters make help support a vari-
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Keeping buck to doe
ratio in balance
BY ANDY DUFFY
Stand up straight,
Michiganians! Thrust your
chests out. Walk tall. The
Lions havent won a cham-
pionship in half a century,
the highly-touted Tigers
are clawing for a playoff
berth, of all things, and
the Pistons and Red Wings
are coming off less-than-
stellar seasons.
Michigan, though, is the
champion woodcock-hunt-
ing state.
In 2012, for example,
Michigan hunters took 35
percent of all the harvest-
ed birds. Minnesota hunt-
ers were a distant second.
What was the harvest in
the Land of 10,000 Lakes?
A measly 14 percent of
the total.
The Dairy State?
Um, 14 percent
And then the statistics
get laughable. Louisiana
hunters accounted for 8
percent of the nations
woodcock harvest. Penn-
sylvania came in at 5 per-
cent. Maine and New York?
Four percent each. If the
Lions go to the Super Bowl
this season, a lot of Las Ve-
gas odds makers will lose
their shirts, but were the
champions of the wood-
cock woods.
So a lot of woodcock mi-
grate through here, huh?
Well, yeah.
But Michigan is a top
producer of woodcock, too,
and the state will continue
to produce woodcock. Give
our tag alder bogs and
aspen forests the credit for
that.
Most hunters are prob-
ably familiar with the link
between woodcock and
thick aspen thickets. But
woodcock in the tag alder
bogs?
Well, perhaps the birds
arent in the bogs because
of the alders. Perhaps the
birds and the alders merely
like the same, soft soils.
At any rate, the woodcock
frequently it off when
Im struggling through the
tangled little trees.
Hunters not familiar
with tag alders should get
to know the species. Tags
inhabit the soft bottom-
lands along creeks and sur-
rounding swales.
I frequently hunt an area
of state forest that is dry.
Any little gullies that in
the spring are hoping to
become creeks someday al-
ways give up the aspiration
by mid-summer because of
a dearth of water. In little
hollows, though, enough
water collects during the
spring freshets and seeps
in throughout the long,
hot summers to keep the
ground moist clear into the
fall. In the hollows, alders
grow. When Ive exhausted
the cutover areas where as-
pen are springing upward
and have despaired of ever
seeing a bird, Ill struggle
down into those moist hol-
lows. Frequently Ill be
rewarded with a utter of
wings and the peenting
call of a eeing woodcock.
Last year, Michigans
woodcock hunters spent
more than 200,000 days
aeld and harvested more
than 100,000 birds, said Al
Steward, Upland Game
Bird Specialist, Michigan
DNR. The surveys DNR
operatives conduct suggest
that numbers may be down
slightly this year, perhaps
because 2013s cold, wet
spring hurt nesting suc-
cess. Still, Steward expects
that hunters aeld this fall
will see nearly as many
woodcock as they did last
year.
The summer range of the
woodcock extends well into
eastern Canada and south
into the Great Lakes States.
Most of the birds spend
their winters in the Gulf
States where the ground
doesnt freeze and they
can continue probing in
the soil for their staples
worms and grubs. Because
they are migratory, the
federal government insists
on having a say regarding
season dates. Michigans
woodcock season this year
began on Sept. 20 and con-
tinues for 45 days.
Michigan hunters should
nd resident woodcock
right from the beginning
of the season. When the
fall migration begins
and birds cavorting in
from Canada start ying
through, the hunting often
improves. Hunters should
keep checking prime
woodcock habitat. Where
no birds lurk one day, good
numbers may be hanging
out the next. Ah, the joys
of having birds come to
you.
A person never knows
when the ights will end,
either. Ive seen the oc-
casional woodcock after
Michigans season ends in
early November. A person
can often guess the sex of
a woodcock because the
males will sometimes be
nearly half-again as large
as a female. Although Ive
never asked a biologist to
give scientic credence to
this observation, it seems
to me that a substantial
number of the late migra-
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they are or not, theyre go-
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I picked my way down
the hill and through the
bracken and brambles.
Aspen branches swiped
my face. I crossed the old
logging road and entered
a different age class of
trees. Then the grouse
erupted from the ground,
sounding as if it were a
speeding drone rushing
off on another mission. I
stopped and stared after
the bird, using the mo-
ment to wipe the sweat off
my forehead. It was the
rst pat Id seen after an
eternity of walking in the
hot, September sun, and it
went up way out of range.
As if urban sprawl, clus-
ters of leaves, thick brush
and steep hills didnt give
Michigan grouse hunt-
ers enough to contend
with, there is the biggest
bugaboo of them all: the
wretched grouse cycle.
They go like clockwork,
population uctuations
regular enough that biolo-
gists take an interest in
them. After a population
peak, grouse numbers
decline for ve years
before gradually build-
ing to another peak. The
pens of biologists have
spilled enough ink over
the cycle to oat a boat.
And although the commu-
nity of those who observe
such a phenomenon and
comment upon it still are
unsure what causes it, the
consensus is that the cycle
occurs.
In Michigan, we are a
step up from the bottom
of the 10-year-cycle, said
Al Stewart, Upland Game
Bird Specialist for the
Michigan Department of
Natural Resources. The
data the DNR collects sug-
gests Michigans grouse
population peaked in 2010,
right on schedule after the
most-recent low occurred
about 2004 or 2005. So
this season will be a bust,
right?
Um, maybe not. Field
biologists are reporting
more broods than last
year, Stewart said. He
believes that Michigan
hunters could actually see
a slight increase in ruffed
grouse numbers this year.
Michigans ruffed grouse
season started Sept. 15.
What is it about grouse
that hunters nd so attrac-
tive?
Oh, thats a tough ques-
tion.
A person might as well
explain why he enjoys
trying to duck meteors or
catching a housey on the
wing. Grouse are a difcult
quarry. Shooting a grouse
is huntings equivalent to
getting around on a Max
Scherzer fastball or keep-
ing Ndamukong Suh out
of a quarterbacks space.
Yeah, thats it. People hunt
grouse because attempts
to bag a bird pose so many
challenges.
The rst obstacle is the
birds rarity. Oh, theyre
around. Theyre not on
the Endangered Species
List or anything like that.
Try to nd many of them,
though, especially dur-
ing the bad years of the
cycle. Sometimes theyre
near water; sometimes
theyre up on the slopes.
They might be on the
ground feeding in the
gray dogwood, or they
might be bedding high up
in a tree. It takes a seer to
know where to nd them.
It might take more than
a seer. I never heard that
Jeane Dixon shot many
grouse.
Then theres the second
obstacle to contend with:
The birds have an uncanny
knack for keeping brush
between themselves and a
hunter. How do they know
a hunter has projectiles he
can hurl at them?
If a person searches
through the outdoor
magazines, he can nd
plenty of photographs of
pheasants caught in ight.
How many times does a
photographer snap a photo
of a ruffed grouse? In fact,
I just looked through a
brand new bird-hunting
journal that arrived in my
mailbox a day or two ago.
On the cover is an artists
depiction of a grouse sail-
ing across a wide sky. In
the magazine is one photo
of a grouse in ight. The
bird is a little speck in the
background, a dot so tiny
I had to scrutinize the pic-
ture to nd it.
Hunters who further
complicate matters by us-
ing dogs have to contend
with a grouses reluctance
to hold for points. You
think Im going to sit here
while youre dog is stand-
ing there staring at me?
a bird will cackle. Forget
that! Im outta here. Then
the thing will y off, mak-
ing sure it stays behind
the only curtain of brush
around. Yeah, were at the
bottom end of the grouse
cycle, but any dearth of
birds isnt the result of
hunters efforts to bag
them.
Grousing about the pat cycle?
Tis season may not be so bad
Its a grouse. It looks a little bedraggled from the effects of Matt Hildebrands load of birdshot, and the English springer at Matts side
looks none too happy about being one of the subjects of the photograph. Still, it is a grouse, one of the magnets that draws thousands
of hunters to Michigans woods each fall.
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Hunters should not
handle or consume deer or
other wild animals that ap-
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regardless of the cause.
Always wear heavy rub-
ber or latex gloves when
eld dressing deer or other
wild game.
Keep a separate set of
tools to use only for butch-
ering deer.
If intestinal contents
contact meat, consider the
meat contaminated; cut off
and discard affected area.
Proper carcass care in the
eld is vital to preserving
wild game. Big game ani-
mals should be eld dressed
immediately to cool the
carcass and then hung by
the head to allow the body
cavity to drain thoroughly.
In warm weather carcass-
cooling can be hastened
and maintained with bags
of ice. For big game ani-
mals, ice bags can be placed
directly into the body cav-
ity. Unlike venison, bear are
marbled with fat and can
spoil quickly at tempera-
tures above 40 degrees. Ven-
ison can survive for several
days at temperatures as
high as 50 degrees as long
as the carcass is kept out of
the sun and protected from
ies. Placing the carcass
into a cheesecloth game
bag or applying a liberal
application of black pepper
to the body cavity will dis-
courage y contamination.
Wash hands with soap
and water before and after
handling meat.
Thoroughly clean equip-
ment and work areas; then
sanitize with a 50/50 solu-
tion of household chlorine
bleach and water after pro-
cessing. Wipe down coun-
ters and let them dry; soak
knives for one hour.
Dispose of the hide,
brain and spinal cord, eyes,
spleen, tonsils, bones and
head in a landll or in your
normal garbage pickup.
Safety practices when
cooking wild game
The Michigan Depart-
ment of Community Health
recommends proper food
safety practices when
cooking venison, as well as
any other meat or poultry.
Thoroughly cooking meat
is important to reduce the
likelihood of any bacterial
disease. All meat, including
venison, should be cooked
until the meat is no longer
pink and the juices run
clear. If cooked according
to the guidelines below, the
likelihood of any disease
transmission to individu-
als consuming this meat is
extremely small.
Use a meat thermometer
to cook meat to proper in-
ternal temperatures (mini-
mum 165-degrees for all
types of meat from ground
or fresh venison, 170-de-
grees for the breast of game
birds and waterfowl, and
180-degrees for the whole
bird), as this will help en-
sure harmful bacteria are
killed and meat is not over-
cooked. The color of meat
is an unreliable indicator
of proper preparation.
For jerky, steam, boil or
roast meat to 165-degrees
using a meat thermometer
prior to dehydrating. Dry
at 130 to 140 degrees until
thoroughly dry. Jerky is
properly dried when it
cracks on bending but
doesnt break.
For more information on
venison eld dressing, meat
preparation and recipes,
see the DNR publication
How to Field Dress a White-
Tailed Deer, available on
the DNR website at www.
michigan.gov/deer.
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BY DAVE FOLEY
Since I moved to Cadil-
lac 40 years ago Ive been
catching and eating sh.
Most come from Lake
Mitchell, with occasional
meals from Lake Michi-
gan or area trout streams.
Almost every week, sh
will be a headliner on our
dinner menu. Yet appar-
ently there can be other
things besides good pro-
tein lurking in Michigan
sh. The presence of mer-
cury, PCBs, and dioxin can
be disconcerting for those
looking to include aquatic
vertebrates in their diet.
Maybe we need to eat few-
er sh or at least consume
them less frequently. With
my love of sh dinners, I
needed do some research.
Working from educa-
tional materials developed
by the Michigan Depart-
ment of Community
Health, I learned that
most sh swimming Mich-
igan waters do have some
harmful chemicals, prin-
cipally mercury, though
there can be traces of
PCBs and dioxins in some
species. These chemicals
build up in river and
lake bottoms where they
are consumed by small
creatures called macro in-
vertebrates as they dig in
the sediment. These tiny
invertebrates are eaten by
minnows which, in turn,
are preyed upon by big-
ger sh. Larger sh and
longer living sh are more
likely to have more impu-
rities in their bodies. In
other words, youre going
to ingest fewer chemicals
in a meal of pansh, like
bluegills and perch, than
you would encounter eat-
ing pike, bass or salmon.
Since chemicals are
more likely to be depos-
ited in the fatty areas of
sh, you can eliminate
these by cutting away the
belly strips, the dark meat
along the lateral line on
the side of the sh, and
meat along the top of the
back. These are where
chemicals are concen-
trated.
Cooking sh on a grill or
broiling them allows fatty
oils to drop away. Mercury,
which is embedded in the
esh, however, will not
drip away. Eating sh al-
lows chemicals to build
up in your body, however,
if sh are only consumed
occasionally, the level of
chemical is low and your
body has a chance to get
rid of these impurities.
There is some possibility
that in some individu-
als the chemicals in sh
might cause cancer or
diabetes and the growth
and brain development of
children may be affected.
It should be noted that
the incidence of health
problems resulting from
the consumption of sh is
very low.
While there are con-
cerns about eating sh
from Michigan waters,
there are also signicant
benets. Fish provide an
excellent source of low-
fat protein, heart healthy
omega-3s and are consid-
ered brain food. A recent
study showed that the
fatty acids in Omega-3s
may cut prostate cancer
risk in half.
To better pinpoint the
levels of chemicals found
in sh, tests were done by
the Michigan Department
of Community Health on
various lakes, including
Lakes Mitchell and Cadil-
lac. Tests on these local
lakes yielded the follow-
ing results: Low levels
of mercury was found
in pansh like sunsh,
bluegills, perch and crap-
pie; these species could
be eaten every week. Of
the larger sh, pike was
safe enough to be eaten
every week while for bass
and walleye the recom-
mendation was only once
or twice a month. Those
bragging-size sh, like
a four-pound bass and
northern pike longer than
30 inches, had greater
concentrations of chemi-
cals. The test results on
the chemical levels found
in our our local sh were
similar to readings found
in most northern Michi-
gan inland lakes.
For those eating sh
caught in Lake Michigan,
the concern is about PCBs
in brown, steelhead, coho
and king salmon and the
presence of dioxin in
lake trout. The recom-
mendation is that, in
general, these sh only
be eaten about six times
a year. More specic in-
formation on these Great
Lakes sh can be found
at http://www.michigan.
gov/documents/mdch/
MDCH_EAT_SAFE_FISH_
GUIDE_-_NORTHWEST_
MI_WEB_455357_7.pdf.
For another perspective,
it should be noted that
the American Heart Asso-
ciation recommends two
meals of sh per week,
particularly oily sh such
as lake trout, salmon
and steelhead. However,
children and pregnant
and nursing women may
be at increased risk for
exposure to excessive
mercury from sh. For the
rest of the population, es-
pecially middle-aged and
older men as well as post-
menopausal women, the
benets of eating sh far
outweigh the risks within
established standards.
To help determine how
much sh can be eaten,
portion sizes have been
developed based on a per-
sons weight. For a person
weighing 45 pounds, two
ounces is considered a
portion. If you weigh 90
pounds the portion dou-
bles to four ounces, and
those weighing 180 pounds
can safely consume eight
ounces at one sitting. For
every 20 pounds, greater
or less than these weights,
you add or subtract one
ounce of sh.
A serving size can be es-
timated by using the adult
hand. The outstretched
full hand including the
ngers is equivalent to
about eight ounces. Four
ounces is about the size
of an adult palm. Half
the size of the adult palm
is about the size of a two
ounce portion.
Obviously there are
concerns about eating sh
from Michigan waters,
but Mark Breederland of
the Michigan Sea Grant
Extension of Northwest
Michigan notes that,
There may be perspec-
tives but an often unsaid
perspective is that some
publics assume that ocean
sh sold at the markets
are good and that we
need to be more worried
about Great Lakes sh.
Actually some/much of
the ocean sh are worse to
eat for your health.
The benets of includ-
ing sh in our diet are un-
deniable, and Cyndy and
I love the taste of sh. By
making sure to cut away
fatty sections that tend
to retain chemical, and
broiling or grilling Lake
Michigan sh, we will
try to minimize the risk.
Based on what I learned,
if we eat a variety of sh
types, we can continue to
have sh as a regular part
of our diet. Thats good
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WINTER
BY BRANDON HODGINS
For many Michigan whitetail
hunters, the open season doesnt
start on Oct. 1. It starts Nov. 15
with the rearm opener. By that
time most of the leaves have fall-
en and the mercury has really
started struggling to rise.
This is when old traditions
are carried on and new tradi-
tions are made. This is when
hunting camps sprawl across
wooded acreage and farm elds
of Michigan.
For a few short weeks, cer-
tain sects of state land start
to look like a pumpkin patch,
peppered with orange stock-
ing caps. Fathers are starting
to dust off grandpas old rie
and hand them to their young
sons and daughters to tune in
before opening day. Some people
will shoot their rst deer; some
people will shoot their last. A
few things are certain; Guns will
bang, bucks will hang and tradi-
tions will carry on.
It was about 14 years ago when
I dropped my rst deer. It was
a big-bodied spike horn taken
from the Gladwin Field Trial ar-
ea. I was just a young boy, sitting
on a bucket with my Winchester
Model 94 lever action 30-30 on
my lap. My dad was in a stand of
pines not far from me.
I had a pocket full of pista-
chios and avored Tootsie Roll
candies, so lovingly packed up
by my grandparents before the
hunt. A doe came strolling by
with her head down, bleating
loudly. She wasnt concerned
with me sitting on my bucket
just 10 yards from the trail. My
heart was pounding, just think-
ing of what might be coming
behind her.
Sure enough, just a few mo-
ments later, hot on her trail
came my rst whitetail buck.
He looked much bigger than
he actually was. I was certain
that I was staring down the
barrel at an absolute Michi-
gan Monster. He knew I was
there, and I was in his way. He
thrashed his head around and
stomped his feet at me. He was
telling me to get out of there so
he could continue his hot pur-
suit of a willing doe.
I raised up that lever action 30-
30 and pointed the barrel toward
brown. With one quick trigger
squeeze, that deer dropped in
his tracks. I hit him in the spine
and he was dead before he hit
the ground.
A lot has changed since I
pulled the trigger on my rst
deer during rie season. Just
as much has stayed the same.
I still hunt with that 30-30 that
my dad and grandpa gave me
as a gift. Im a much better shot
with it nowadays though. I still
snack on pistachios while in the
woods, but Im much more care-
ful about the noise and smells I
create while doing so.
I still hunt from the ground
and until this day, Ive never
spent a moment hunting from
a tree stand. Today, Id let that
spike horn walk, in hopes that
he makes it through another
rearm hunting season in Mich-
igan.
In some Michigan counties
it would be illegal to shoot that
rst deer of mine during the
2014 season. New Antler Point
Restrictions are changing the
way people hunt, in hopes to
change the caliber of deer
theyll hunt in the future.
A batch of counties in Michi-
gan have adopted Antler Point
Restrictions (APRs), limiting
hunters kills to deer with three
or more points on a side.
New counties with APRs in ef-
fect include Emmet, Charlevoix,
Antrim, Kalkaska, Grand Tra-
verse, Benzie, Manistee, Wex-
ford, Missaukee, Mason, Lake,
Osceola and Leelanau. Beaver
Island, DMU 487, South Fox Is-
land and the entire Upper Penin-
sula remain under APRs as they
have in the past. Deer Manage-
ment Unit 487 is a multi-county
unit that consists of Presque
Isle, Montmorency, Alpena, Al-
cona, Oscoda and Iosco.
A new license structure is in
effect for the state for the 2014
season as well. Every hunter is
required to have a base license
before theyre able to buy any
other additional licenses. The
base license costs $11 and it
includes the right to hunt small
game. Under the new structure,
a combination hunt and sh li-
cense will cost $76 for Michigan
residents and includes a base
license, an all species shing
license and a combination deer
license. Deer hunters can go
with a single license option or a
combination deer license, cost-
ing $20 and $40 respectively.
Much of the 2014 rearm
regulations are the same as they
always have been. Some things
have changed, though, so its
important to keep a copy of the
2014 Michigan Hunting Digest
handy. Theyre usually available
for free wherever licenses are
sold.
The safety zone still exists. Its
unlawful to discharge a rearm
or bow within 150 yards of an
occupied building, house, cabin,
barn or other farm buildings.
Of course, rearm hunters must
still wear hunter orange. It can
be a hat, vest, cap, jacket or rain
gear. It can even be mixed with
camo, as long as the garment
is at least 50 percent hunter or-
ange. Some things never change,
and thats a good thing.
Its important to know whats
legal and whats not while mov-
ing about the woods this season.
While carried in or on a motor
vehicle, ries, shotguns, muzzle-
loaders and other rearms
must be unloaded. This applies
to both the magazine and the
chamber.
They must also be in a case
or carried in the trunk of the
vehicle. Its also important to
remember that a person carry-
ing a rearm, crossbow or bow
and arrow in the eld during the
rearm deer season must have a
valid deer, deer combo, or antler-
less deer license for the appro-
priate DMU in possession.
Again, its the hunters respon-
sibility to know whats legal or
not in their own state. The 2014
Michigan Hunting Digest leaves
no questions unanswered and
its a good idea to get one.
Much of what we all learned
about hunting didnt come from
a pamphlet though. It came from
dads and granddads who wanted
to make sure the tradition car-
ries on. It came from moms
and grandmas who packed the
snacks for the hunters before
they left. It came from aunts and
uncles who sat in the woods with
us, hoping to make bagging big
bucks a tradition of their own.
The nights are getting colder.
The days are getting shorter.
The sweet smell of spent gun-
powder lls the air as people
practice their shooting skills.
The velvet is gone from the ant-
lers and the chase is about to
commence.
There is a lot of uncertainty
in the sport of hunting. Thats
why it isnt called killing. But
one thing that Michigan sports-
men and women can count on,
is the season will always come.
Someone will get their biggest
buck this year. Someone new
will get hooked on hunting and
new favorite memories will be
made. Thats the rearm deer
season in Michigan. Where guns
bang, bucks hang and traditions
carry on.
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The relative calm and
solitude of summer shing
is about to be replaced.
As the fall salmon run
starts, it will not be uncom-
mon for there to be count-
less anglers lining the
banks of rivers at any time
of the day trying to hook
a sh traveling up stream.
For some, that is the best
time of year, while others
believe it brings the worst
out in people.
Regardless where you sit
on that debate, one thing
that isnt up for discussion
is the fact that fall run is
about to start and if you
want to catch a salmon,
you need to know where to
go. At the same time, while
the rivers are crowded,
inland lakes are all but
empty and full of opportu-
nities.
2014 FALL SALMON
OUTLOOK
According to DNR
Fisheries Biologist Mark
Tonello, this years salmon
run has been strange so
far. The Betsie River has
seen several good pushes
of Chinooks, starting
on Labor Day weekend.
This also beneted Betsie
Lake anglers. However,
Manistee did not see those
same pushes of sh. An-
glers in the Manistee River
and Manistee Lake have
struggled thus far with low
numbers of sh. However,
the big weather switch this
week will likely have the
sh moving, and shing
should pick up. By mid-
September, most of the big
kings will be through the
pierheads and into the riv-
er systems. He mentioned
that when there is a good
north wind that pushes the
warm water into different
parts of Lake Michigan
and pushes cold water
closer to shore, that is what
really brings the sh in.
He also mentioned that
this could be a slower year
for overall numbers of
salmon.
Most of the sh running
in the fall of 2014 will be
from the 2011 Chinook year
class. Weve known that
the 2011 year class was not
the best, mostly because
we had very little alewife
production that year. Ju-
venile Chinooks do very
well in years where there
is good alewife production,
because they feed on the
larval alewives. If theres
not good alewife produc-
tion, the juvenile Chinooks
struggle to nd food and
survival can be low.
He also wanted to remind
anglers that snagging is
illegal as is lining sh. If a
person is shing for salm-
on they have to be trying to
get them to hit their lure.
He added that a person can
get a ticket for attempting
to snag, too.
You dont have to be
caught snagging to get a
ticket, he said. Last year,
our Conservation Ofcers
mounted a huge effort on
the Manistee and Betsie
Rivers and wrote hundreds
of tickets for illegal sh-
ing activity. We plan to be
even more proactive this
year in certain areas; for
example, the vicinity of
Tippy Dam.
HOT SPOTS
For the next couple
weeks, Tonello said there
will be decent shing off
piers, such as those in
Frankfort or Manistee. He
also said small boat an-
glers will be able to troll
in the harbors near the
piers.
By the third week of
September, Tonello said
sh should be in the riv-
ers. He added that weath-
er can change that by a
week, but they are usually
past the pier heads by the
end of September. The
three main rivers are the
Big Manistee, Betsie and
Pere Marquette.
As it gets later in Sep-
tember and into October,
they get to the gravel and
start spawning. Usually
the peak of spawning is
the second week of Octo-
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In 2012, the Department
of Natural Resources
closed a portion of the
lower Betsie River and
the eastern end of the
Betsie Bay to shing due
to low water levels. That
closure remains in effect.
Betsie Bay is also known
as Betsie Lake and that
area will be closed to sh-
ing until further notice
to protect the fall salmon
run in the Betsie River.
Water levels are up and
it is not as problematic as
it was last year, he said.
Fall rains should come
soon and we should get
more water.
STEELHEAD
Once Halloween is
around the corner, Tonel-
lo said anglers looking
to hook a steelhead or
Rainbow Trout should
head out on the Pere Mar-
quette, Little Manistee,
Betsie, Manistee rivers
and Bear Creek. He added
that the fall steelhead run
occurs when there is a lot
of rain in October and
November.
If we have a dry, cold
fall, we wont get a good
fall steelhead run, he
said. The steelhead that
come in the fall just hang
out in the river and wait
for the spring spawn.
Like the salmon run
earlier in the fall, Tonello
said there are opportuni-
ties to hook one off the
piers on Lake Michigan
in Ludington, Manistee
and Frankfort. There also
is a chance to hook one
off the surf in those ar-
eas north or south of the
piers.
While that will last
until January, a person
would have to be really
tough to deal with the
cold, icy and potentially
dangerous conditions. For
that reason, he wouldnt
recommend it.
OTHER FISHING
OPPORTUNITIES
While the river banks
will be crowded for a
month or so, inland lakes
will be vacated and open.
Tonello said shing for
walleye this summer on
lakes Cadillac and Mitch-
ell has been good. It typi-
cally tails off in July and
August, but picks back
up as the water tempera-
tures cool off. With that in
mind, Tonello said wall-
eye shing should be good
in September, October
and November.
When it comes to pan
sh, bass and pike, it is
some of the best shing
of the year. He attributed
that to the fact that the
water temperatures are
dropping and species like
northern pike like the
cooler temperatures.
Pan shing also can be
good, especially for perch
or crappie. That remains
until the lakes freeze, he
said. The lakes he recom-
mended were Cadillac,
Mitchell, Missaukee,
Houghton Lake, Tippy
Pond and Hodenpyl Pond.
WINTER FISHING
Tonello said the area
has two of the better
northern pike and crap-
pie lakes in northern
Michigan in lakes Cadil-
lac and Mitchell. Last
winter was a tough one
for ice anglers, mostly be-
cause of the intense cold
and abundant snow.
He expects this winter
will again be good for us-
ing tip-ups and spearing
for pike. He added that
walleye shing should
continue to improve on
Lakes Cadillac and Mitch-
ell, as it has for the past
several years.
Lake Missaukee is good
for pansh, bluegill and
sunsh, in particular,
Tonello said. Although
the rst two weeks and
last two weeks of ice
are considered the best
ice, Tonello said on local
lakes pike and crappie
can be caught throughout
the season.
The free shing week-
end this winter is sched-
uled for Feb. 14 and 15.
During that weekend,
anyone can sh without a
license, but still must fol-
low state shing laws.
The Cadillac area has two of the better northern pike and crappie lakes in northern Michigan in lakes Cadillac and Mitchell. Last winter was a tough one for ice anglers,
mostly because of the intense cold and abundant snow, but this winter will again be good for using tip-ups and spearing for pike.
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the best
pansh,
bass and
pike
shing of
the year
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We arrive at the landing
next to Red Bridge at dawn.
A thin cloud of fog oats
just above the Manistee
River, but in the brighten-
ing October sky the air is
quickly clearing. Cyndy
and I unstrap our kayaks
from the car roof rack, lift
them off, and carry them to
the edge of the stream. Nor-
mally Id next be loading
shing gear in my kayak.
Today Im a photographer
not an angler. The bass get
the day off. Instead of pitch-
ing lures their way, Ill be
seeking to capture digital
images of fall colors.
The paddling is easy. As it
should be since were going
downstream. The current
here is slow, the waters
energy being sapped by the
widening stream as forms
Tippy Dam Backwaters.
We bear to the left to catch
a shortcut past an island
and then proceed down to
the mouth of a cove. I tell
Cyndy to paddle into the
bay and then cross in front
of me. Im shooting into the
sun, something youre not
supposed to do. But the ef-
fect is exactly what I want.
Cyndy is in shadow, but her
outline is rimmed in light
and the mist rising off the
water catches the bright-
ness and makes her silhou-
ette appear to be glowing.
We continue into the
reservoir as the sun rises,
bathing the land in a muted
blaze of dusky gold light. In
the autumn the sun hangs
lower in the sky and its
rays, passing through the
atmosphere, gives the light
a yellowish hue adding
more brilliance to the land
it illuminates. The colors
this time of year are richer
recalling lighting used by
artists during the Renais-
sance.
A ock of at least several
dozen Canada geese break
into raucous honking when
we appear. They swim
nervously about as if try-
ing to determine if were
a threat. Then a couple
rise up, wings apping and
feet quick-stepping across
the waters surface before
getting airborne. The rest,
apparently deciding we are
dangerous, spring from
the water and make their
airborne retreat amid
a cacophony of hoarse
squawks.
A pair of mute swans
handle our arrival more
gracefully, swimming away
slowly at our approach.
These elegant white birds
with s-curved necks and
raised wing feathers are
beautiful, but also these
birds are invasive. When
they take up residence
they drive off, the native
waterfowl and other swans.
I extend my telephoto lens
and capture both birds in
my viewnder catching
their image and their shim-
mering reections laid out
below them in the glassy
water.
We tour the edge of
the backwater looking
for splashes of color. The
maples are the most strik-
ing and are among the
rst trees to turn, as their
leaves lose their green chlo-
rophyll content. Most red
maples offer a leafy display
of crimson red though
some may have a pinkish
hue, turn yellow or carry
splotches of several shades
of color. Stands of birch
and poplar decked in yellow
foliage add to this autumn
palette of color.
Cyndy paddles close to
shore and I angle my kayak
to put her in back light
which makes the leaves
look like they are their own
source of light. Add to that
the dazzling kaleidoscope
of reected color swim-
ming in the water beside
her kayak and the effect
is stunning. I know that
these scenes now being
caught digitally can only
approximate the reality of
what I am seeing so after I
click the shutter, I put the
camera in my lap and take
a moment to absorb the
scene rsthand. We stop
for lunch at Eagle point a
spot weve named because
of the enormous raft of
sticks that sits high in an
oak. Today we think we
can see an eagle sitting on
the nest, but it is hard to
tell. On other trips we have
observed the bird perched
there and on one occasion
it ew off using powerful
wing strokes to carry it
across the bay and into the
forest.
Paddling back toward the
landing, we look to explore
new areas. The backwater
has so many islands, bays,
and passages that we can
chart a course that will re-
veal sites we didnt see ear-
lier in the day. This variety
is a welcome change from
having to back track on the
return along an out-and-
back route. As we enter the
last mile before Red Bridge,
the current becomes notice-
able and we paddle harder.
Theres a stretch of shallow
water, that requires some
maneuvering to avoid be-
ing grounded in the sand,
but we zigzag across it and
remain aoat. The river
makes a nal right turn
and we can see the landing,
we dig in, pushing against
the ow until we arrive at
the boat launch. Its been a
great day to be out on the
water. We left some chores
undone at home, but they
can be put off until the
weather sours. Today we
couldnt resist breaking
away to celebrate the beau-
ty of autumn in northern
Michigan.
Catching peak color is
not hard. In this area its
usually the rst week of
October. The shortening of
days is the prime predic-
tor of when the leaves will
turn, although extended
drought, excessive rain,
and early hard freezes can
result in muted autumn
foliage. Warm, sunny days
followed by cool, not freez-
ing nights, that is the ac-
cepted recipe for maximum
fall color.
Best views of fall colors might be from a canoe or kayak
DAVE FOLEY | SPECIAL TO THE CADILLAC NEWS
Reections in water make the splendor of autumn color even
more stunning.

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