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Winds were somewhat down today and temperature was somewhat up. We hit Torch Lake after it warmed up a tad and went after perch. Found plenty of perch, with a couple of surprises. Become a member and head on over to our Members Only page for all the details See MoreSee Less

🚨Monster Buck Alert🚨

Date Taken: 10/18/2023 by Tyler C
Time Of Day: Evening
Method: Compound Bow
Number of Points: 11
County: Lenawee County
Property: Private
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Nice buck

Awesome buck hope he passed on some genes

Good for you that’s a trophy

Nice Wall Hanger!! what a Horse!! 🤔👍

Beautiful deer-filled morning! Started with a group of spikes whom came busting through raking trees, sparing and scraping like they were the studs. Watched them work off up a hill and just out of sight, one blew 3 times. Figured the thermals shifted and I was busted. Five minutes later, this hog popped out 20yds down. I was so excited I couldn’t get my bow drawn. He circled back behind a huge oak and I was able to hammer her back to poke his off-switch 30yds out. Piled up 40yds from there. -Chelsea Z

Date Taken: 10/21/2023
Time Of Day: Morning
Method: Compound Bow
Number of Points: 9
County: Van Buren County
Property: Private
Dressed Weight: 192
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Congratulations

Nice!

Congrats

👍 awesome 👍 congratulations 👍

Great trophy! Congratulations!

Good for you. Nice job beautiful dear.

Nice buck

Nice to see someone using a bow! Great job!!

Very Nice

That’s very cool that you shot that with a compound bow!

Nice Buck

Would be “beautiful” if it were still alive!!

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Week 6 of our conservation officer training academy was packed with big game, small game, processors and taxidermists.

Keep up with these future conservation officers through our weekly blog series, found at www.michigan.gov/dnr/managing-resources/laws/co/academy/ta-12-week-6
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The smile of a very happy deer hunter.
Alicia Lynne Fullmer- “Bow season, opening day!”

Congratulations Alicia! Good memories and venison for the freezer. Enjoy!

Share your 🦌 photos here on Messenger or email me at MiWhiteTailHunter@yahoo.com
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Outstanding!

Nice job but would've held out for a bigger one

Its 2023 Buck Pole TIME!
Minnow Bucket
Buck Pole Rules

This year we are offering two events, 1st we will continue our season long buck pole and award prizes to the top 5 biggest bucks, 2nd we will be having a buck pole event on 11/18 the event will run from 9am-9pm at the store we will be offering food and refreshments all day. Prizes will be awarded in multiple categories. Stories mostly embellished will be given freely! Bring the family and relive all your best hunting stories.

Hunters from Roscommon, Crawford, Oscoda and Ogemaw counties are eligible, no fee for entry, hanging deer for at least 1 hour requested! Register at The Minnow Bucket @ Exit 222, 776 N Saint Helen Rd, Saint Helen, MI 48656. Entries will be accepted during normal business hours from 10/01/2023-01/01/2024.
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Congratulations

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Sweet… Now they need a few years 🎣🎣👍

How much did that cost?

Trying to get walleyes for Todd Lake in Osceola Co.

Should be planting millions everywhere in the state with the bumper crop we have in Saginaw and Detroit

That's way better than just 4 that were planted in a jackson co.lake

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Does anybody know of a person who digs wigglers with a commercial license to sale in michigan. Thanks See MoreSee Less

Does anybody know of a person who digs wigglers with a  commercial license to sale in michigan. Thanks

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Michigan Wholesale Bait

Can’t someone dig for you under your license ?

Wendy Cluchey

Me and my Grandfather used to dig them in creek perch loved them!!!.

Nikko from Japan has artificial with same elastomer that z man used and they have jug heads too

Back cast Beulah MI?

I never thought this would be an issue

Shawn Jacobs

How do you dig them ,?what time of year,how do you find them?

Hard to find any more

Yeuh amazon

Shawn Jacobs??

Caleb Fisk

No

Doesn't pay enough these days, for all the trouble you have to go through

A guide told me that there was an old timer in Manistee that dug wiggies….locals knew him. I understand his son now digs. Thats all I can tell you.

Is it me or does it seem like there are no wigglers? Or no one to dig them and sell to retail stores?

Fish fly larvae

If you had a place to DM I’d contact you with info. Not gonna post publicly.

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Perch fishing in Northern Michigan is starting to get hot with the cooler weather and minnows starting to school.

Getting reports from Lake Leelanau, Glen Lake, long lake by traverse city, green Lake that perch are starting to school and fishing has been good. Portage Lake has been fair for perch.

Bowers Harbor is picking up with some nice perch being caught, some reports out of Northport but most are keeping quiet as they don’t want the landing shut down.

Walleye fishing has been good on Lake Leelanau and long lake.

Some huge smallmouth are coming out of east grand traverse bay, by Elk Rapids.
Minnows, wigglers, worms and perch pounders have been working best
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Perch fishing in Northern Michigan is starting to get hot with the cooler weather and minnows starting to school.
Getting  reports from Lake Leelanau, Glen Lake, long lake by traverse city, green Lake  that perch are starting to school and fishing has been good. Portage Lake has been fair for perch.
Bowers Harbor is picking up with some nice perch being caught, some reports out of Northport but most are keeping quiet as they dont want the landing shut down.
Walleye fishing has been good on Lake Leelanau and long lake.
Some huge smallmouth are coming out of east grand traverse bay, by Elk Rapids.
Minnows, wigglers, worms and perch pounders have been working best

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What a great picture!!!

David Cholger

Jordan Downing

funny they want to keep quiet but you do not

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Where were the perch caught at

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Is that northern Michigan

September is Tree Stand Safety Month, and archery deer season begins in just a few days.

We know these are safety measures many of you are familiar with, but a refresher is always good – especially if it prevents an injury or even death.

🔸 Always maintain three points of contact when climbing up to or down from the stand.

🔸 Wear a full-body harness that is properly attached above your head.

🔸 Ensure your tree stand is securely attached and stable before using it.

🔸 Use a haul line to get your hunting gear to and from the stand.
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More than 9 million fish have been stocked so far in 2023. That’s a LOT of fish!

We like numbers, so let’s drill down into what it takes to stock that many fish throughout Michigan’s waterways.

269 – tons of fish stocked
2,233 – hours it took to stock them
89,000 – miles of traveling it took
17 – number of trucks used to stock them
375 – number of trips taken by those trucks
705 – different sites stocked with fish

There are even more stats on this year’s current fish stocking efforts, found in the full article: midnr.info/3t2H1Mq

If you’re interested to see if a specific lake has been stocked, you can see our full database at www2.dnr.state.mi.us/fishstock/
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Thanks for sharing.

Need walleyes in Todd Lake, Osceola Co.

I like how much the DNR is bragging there selfs up when it's the job they are paid to do.

We’re loaded up for all you fall perch fishermen!
Open 7 days
Monday-Saturday 9-5
Sunday 9-3
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Lake Michigan and Saginaw bay lol

Where are the perch biting? 👁 🧐

Jonathan Stoye reports from Higgins Lake My fiancée Danielle landed her first laker this morning. She had a blast and I’m so thankful we had this experience together!#bucsbait #higginslake #laketrout See MoreSee Less

Jonathan Stoye reports from Higgins Lake My fiancée Danielle landed her first laker this morning. She had a blast and I’m so thankful we had this experience together!#bucsbait #higginslake #laketrout

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I love to catch lake trout like catching small mouth

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Paige MacKinnon

Steven Rinella

Are there some in west traverse bay? We marked some large blobs when salmon or bass fishing and wondered what they were. Bait schools don't show up solid like this pic.

Why not perch

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