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Steve George, of Evart, oneof a growing band of archeryhunters anticipating the arriv-al of Michigans archery deerseason, was busy enhancingthe property where he hunts.

He stood gazing across anirregularly shaped, tilled areawhere he intends to plant afood plot. Hell use a seed mixthat includes turnips, rye and acouple of other grasses mixedin.

Deer like the turnips, hesaid. Theyll even come in to itafter the first snow.

George begins thinkingabout bow season each yearlate in the summer. He puts inhis food plot. He puts his standsback in trees. He practices withhis bow. I like to get proficient

shooting, he said.George likes to hunt deer, and

he is good at it. He has shot a lotof deer, and a lot of bucks wereamong them. It is not just thedeer, though, that draw him tothe woods. He puts his standswhere he can watch a varietyof wildlife.

At the edge of his future foodplot stands a tall, white pine.He likes to put his tree standsin white pines because hebelieves the fragrance of thepine helps cover up his scent.He likes that particular tree be-cause it is near a creek. While

sitting in the tree, he has seenducks, geese and otters in thecreek. He tossed an apple coreout of his stand one fall day.Before long, an opossum wan-dered by and finished the apple.During the rut, he sometimeswatches bucks wade right upthe creek.

George doesnt hunt just pri-vate property. He makes someforays into the state forest, too.The wilderness experienceappeals to him. A little bit of

the Daniel Boone dispositionreigns in us all.

If George had to choose be-tween rifle hunting and bowhunting, the length of the sea-son and the quietness of thefall woods before the guns startbanging are the things thatmake bow hunting special forhim.

He is quick to tell a personthat he is a meat hunter. Helikes taking venison. He likesthe idea of antler point restric-tions anyway.

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Evart bowhunterSteve George teststhe steps of his treestand. George likes topost stands in whitepines. He believestheir fragrance helpscover his.

Early preparation enhances the bow hunters odds of successDeer like the turnips.

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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 herdnumbers 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 afield than the typical

firearms hunter, too. That just makes sense. Ar-

chers have a longer season than firearms hunters

do. During the early archery season, the weather is

pleasant, and the rut begins before firearms 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 finish 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-ety of businesses. Hunters often share their spoils, too, and help charitable organizations feed the hungry.

Keeping buck to doeratio in balance


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BY ANDY DUFFY


Stand up straight,

Michiganians! Thrust yourchests out. Walk tall. TheLions havent won a cham-pionship in half a century,the highly-touted Tigersare clawing for a playoffberth, of all things, andthe Pistons and Red Wingsare coming off less-than-stellar seasons.

Michigan, though, is thechampion woodcock-hunt-ing state.

In 2012, for example,Michigan hunters took 35percent of all the harvest-ed birds. Minnesota hunt-ers were a distant second.

What was the harvest inthe Land of 10,000 Lakes?

A measly 14 percent ofthe total.

The Dairy State?Um, 14 percentAnd then the statistics

get laughable. Louisianahunters accounted for 8percent of the nationswoodcock harvest. Penn-sylvania came in at 5 per-cent. Maine and New York?Four percent each. If theLions go to the Super Bowlthis season, a lot of Las Ve-gas odds makers will lose

their shirts, but were thechampions 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 continueto produce woodcock. Giveour tag alder bogs andaspen forests the credit forthat.

Most hunters are prob-ably familiar with the linkbetween woodcock andthick 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 woodcockfrequently flit off whenIm struggling through thetangled little trees.

Hunters not familiarwith tag alders should getto know the species. Tagsinhabit the soft bottom-lands along creeks and sur-rounding swales.

I frequently hunt an areaof state forest that is dry.Any little gullies that inthe spring are hoping tobecome creeks someday al-ways give up the aspirationby mid-summer because ofa dearth of water. In little

hollows, though, enoughwater collects during thespring freshets and seepsin throughout the long,hot summers to keep theground moist clear into thefall. In the hollows, aldersgrow. When Ive exhaustedthe cutover areas where as-

pen are springing upwardand have despaired of everseeing a bird, Ill struggledown into those moist hol-lows. Frequently Ill berewarded with a flutter ofwings and the peentingcall of a fleeing woodcock.

Last year, Michiganswoodcock hunters spentmore than 200,000 daysafield and harvested morethan 100,000 birds, said AlSteward, Upland GameBird Specialist, MichiganDNR. The surveys DNRoperatives conduct suggestthat numbers may be downslightly this year, perhaps

because 2013s cold, wetspring hurt nesting suc-cess. Still, Steward expectsthat hunters afield this fallwill see nearly as manywoodcock as they did lastyear.

The summer range of thewoodcock extends well into

eastern Canada and southinto the Great Lakes States.Most of the birds spendtheir winters in the GulfStates where the grounddoesnt freeze and theycan continue probing inthe soil for their staples worms and grubs. Becausethey are migratory, thefederal government insistson having a say regardingseason dates. Michiganswoodcock season this yearbegan on Sept. 20 and con-tinues for 45 days.

Michigan hunters shouldfind resident woodcockright from the beginningof the season. When thefall migration beginsand birds cavorting infrom Canada start flyingthrough, the hunting oftenimproves. Hunters shouldkeep checking primewoodcock habitat. Whereno birds lurk one day, goodnumbers may be hangingout the next. Ah, the joysof having birds come toyou.

A person never knowswhen the flights will end,either. Ive seen the oc-

casional woodcock afterMichigans season ends inearly November. A personcan often guess the sex ofa woodcock because themales will sometimes benearly half-again as largeas a female. Although Ivenever asked a biologist togive scientific credence tothis observation, it seemsto me that a substantialnumber of the late migra-tors are males. Whetherthey are or not, theyre go-ing to keep Michigan theNo. 1 woodcock-hunting

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I picked my way downthe hill and through thebracken and brambles.Aspen branches swipedmy face. I crossed the oldlogging road and entereda different age class oftrees. Then the grouseerupted from the ground,sounding as if it were aspeeding drone rushingoff on another mission. Istopped and stared afterthe bird, using the mo-ment to wipe the sweat offmy forehead. It was thefirst pat Id seen after aneternity of walking in thehot, September sun, and itwent up way out of range.As if urban sprawl, clus-ters of leaves, thick brushand steep hills didnt giveMichigan grouse hunt-ers enough to contendwith, there is the biggestbugaboo of them all: thewretched grouse cycle.

They go like clockwork,population fluctuationsregular enough that biolo-gists take an interest inthem. After a populationpeak, grouse numbers

decline for five yearsbefore gradually build-ing to another peak. Thepens of biologists havespilled enough ink overthe cycle to float a boat.And although the commu-nity of those who observesuch a phenomenon andcomment upon it still areunsure what causes it, theconsensus is that the cycleoccurs.

In Michigan, we are astep up from the bottomof the 10-year-cycle, saidAl Stewart, Upland Game

Bird Specialist for theMichigan Department ofNatural Resources. Thedata the DNR collects sug-gests Michigans grousepopulation peaked in 2010,

right on schedule after themost-recent low occurred

about 2004 or 2005. Sothis season will be a bust,right?

Um, maybe not. Fieldbiologists are reportingmore broods than lastyear, Stewart said. Hebelieves that Michiganhunters could actually seea slight increase in ruffedgrouse numbers this year.

Michigans ruffed grouseseason started Sept. 15.

What is it about grousethat hunters find so attrac-tive?

Oh, thats a tough ques-tion.

A person might as wellexplain why he enjoystrying to duck meteors orcatching a housefly on thewing. Grouse are a difficultquarry. Shooting a grouseis huntings equivalent togetting around on a MaxScherzer fastball or keep-ing Ndamukong Suh outof a quarterbacks space.Yeah, thats it. People huntgrouse because attemptsto bag a bird pose so manychallenges.

The first obstacle is thebirds rarity. Oh, theyre

around. Theyre not onthe Endangered SpeciesList or anything like that.Try to find many of them,though, especially dur-ing the bad years of thecycle. Sometimes theyrenear water; sometimestheyre up on the slopes.They might be on theground feeding in thegray dogwood, or theymight be bedding high upin a tree. It takes a seer toknow where to find them.It might take more thana seer. I never heard that

Jeane Dixon shot manygrouse.

Then theres the secondobstacle to contend with:The birds have an uncannyknack for keeping brush

between themselves and ahunter. How do they knowa hunter has projectiles hecan hurl at them?

If a person searches

through the outdoormagazines, he can findplenty of photographs ofpheasants caught in flight.How many times does aphotographer snap a photo

of a ruffed grouse? In fact,I just looked through abrand new bird-hunting

journal that arrived in mymailbox a day or two ago.

On the cover is an artistsdepiction of a grouse sail-ing across a wide sky. Inthe magazine is one photoof a grouse in flight. Thebird is a little speck in the

background, a dot so tinyI had to scrutinize the pic-ture to find it.

Hunters who furthercomplicate matters by us-

ing dogs have to contendwith a grouses reluctanceto hold for points. Youthink Im going to sit herewhile youre dog is stand-ing there staring at me?

a bird will cackle. Forgetthat! Im outta here. Thenthe thing will fly off, mak-ing sure it stays behindthe only curtain of brush

around. Yeah, were at thebottom end of the grousecycle, but any dearth ofbirds isnt the result ofhunters efforts to bagthem.

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 sidelooks none too happy about being one of the subjects of the photograph. Still, it is a grouse, one of the magnets that draws thousandsof hunters to Michigans woods each fall.

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Hunters should nothandle or consume deer orother wild animals that ap-pear sick or act abnormally,regardless of the cause.

Always wear heavy rub-ber or latex gloves whenfield dressing deer or otherwild game.

Keep a separate set oftools to use only for butch-ering deer.

If intestinal contentscontact meat, consider themeat contaminated; cut offand discard affected area.

Proper carcass care in thefield is vital to preservingwild game. Big game ani-mals should be field dressedimmediately to cool the

carcass and then hung bythe head to allow the bodycavity to drain thoroughly.In warm weather carcass-cooling can be hastenedand maintained with bagsof ice. For big game ani-mals, ice bags can be placeddirectly into the body cav-ity. Unlike venison, bear aremarbled with fat and canspoil quickly at tempera-tures above 40 degrees. Ven-

ison can survive for severaldays at temperatures ashigh as 50 degrees as longas the carcass is kept out ofthe sun and protected fromflies. Placing the carcassinto a cheesecloth gamebag or applying a liberalapplication of black pepperto the body cavity will dis-courage fly contamination.

Wash hands with soapand water before and afterhandling meat.

Thoroughly clean equip-ment and work areas; thensanitize with a 50/50 solu-tion of household chlorinebleach and water after pro-cessing. Wipe down coun-ters and let them dry; soakknives for one hour.

Dispose of the hide,

brain and spinal cord, eyes,spleen, tonsils, bones andhead in a landfill or in yournormal garbage pickup.

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any other meat or poultry.Thoroughly cooking meatis important to reduce thelikelihood of any bacterialdisease. All meat, includingvenison, should be cookeduntil the meat is no longerpink and the juices runclear. If cooked accordingto the guidelines below, thelikelihood of any diseasetransmission to individu-als consuming this meat isextremely small.

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to cook meat to proper in-ternal temperatures (mini-mum 165-degrees for alltypes of meat from groundor fresh venison, 170-de-grees for the breast of gamebirds and waterfowl, and180-degrees for the wholebird), as this will help en-sure harmful bacteria arekilled and meat is not over-cooked. The color of meatis an unreliable indicatorof proper preparation.

For jerky, steam, boil or

roast meat to 165-degreesusing a meat thermometerprior to dehydrating. Dryat 130 to 140 degrees untilthoroughly dry. Jerky isproperly dried when itcracks on bending butdoesnt break.

For more information onvenison field dressing, meatpreparation and recipes,see the DNR publicationHow to Field Dress a White-Tailed Deer, available onthe DNR website at www.michigan.gov/deer.

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Since I moved to Cadil-lac 40 years ago Ive beencatching and eating fish.Most come from LakeMitchell, with occasionalmeals from Lake Michi-gan or area trout streams.Almost every week, fish

will be a headliner on ourdinner menu. Yet appar-ently there can be otherthings besides good pro-tein lurking in Michiganfish. The presence of mer-cury, PCBs, and dioxin canbe disconcerting for thoselooking to include aquaticvertebrates in their diet.Maybe we need to eat few-

er fish or at least consumethem less frequently. Withmy love of fish dinners, Ineeded do some research.

Working from educa-tional materials developedby the Michigan Depart-ment of CommunityHealth, I learned thatmost fish swimming Mich-igan waters do have someharmful chemicals, prin-cipally mercury, thoughthere can be traces ofPCBs and dioxins in somespecies. These chemicalsbuild up in river andlake bottoms where theyare consumed by smallcreatures called macro in-vertebrates as they dig inthe sediment. These tinyinvertebrates are eaten byminnows which, in turn,are preyed upon by big-ger fish. Larger fish andlonger living fish are morelikely to have more impu-rities in their bodies. In

other words, youre goingto ingest fewer chemicalsin a meal of panfish, likebluegills and perch, thanyou would encounter eat-ing pike, bass or salmon.

Since chemicals aremore likely to be depos-ited in the fatty areas offish, you can eliminatethese by cutting away thebelly strips, the dark meatalong the lateral line onthe side of the fish, andmeat along the top of theback. These are wherechemicals are concen-

trated.Cooking fish on a grill or

broiling them allows fattyoils to drop away. Mercury,which is embedded in theflesh, however, will not

drip away. Eating fish al-lows chemicals to buildup in your body, however,if fish are only consumedoccasionally, the level ofchemical is low and yourbody has a chance to getrid of these impurities.There is some possibilitythat in some individu-als the chemicals in fishmight cause cancer ordiabetes and the growthand brain development ofchildren may be affected.It should be noted thatthe incidence of healthproblems resulting fromthe consumption of fish isvery low.

While there are con-cerns about eating fishfrom Michigan waters,there are also significantbenefits. Fish provide anexcellent source of low-fat protein, heart healthyomega-3s and are consid-ered brain food. A recent

study showed that thefatty acids in Omega-3smay cut prostate cancerrisk in half.

To better pinpoint thelevels of chemicals foundin fish, tests were done bythe Michigan Departmentof Community Health onvarious lakes, includingLakes Mitchell and Cadil-lac. Tests on these locallakes yielded the follow-ing results: Low levelsof mercury was foundin panfish like sunfish,bluegills, perch and crap-

pie; these species couldbe eaten every week. Ofthe larger fish, pike wassafe enough to be eatenevery week while for bassand walleye the recom-mendation was only onceor twice a month. Thosebragging-size fish, like

a four-pound bass andnorthern pike longer than30 inches, had greaterconcentrations of chemi-cals. The test results onthe chemical levels foundin our our local fish weresimilar to readings foundin most northern Michi-gan inland lakes.

For those eating fishcaught in Lake Michigan,the concern is about PCBsin brown, steelhead, cohoand king salmon and thepresence of dioxin inlake trout. The recom-mendation is that, ingeneral, these fish onlybe eaten about six timesa year. More specific in-formation on these GreatLakes fish can be foundat http://www.michigan.gov/documents/mdch/MDCH_EAT_SAFE_FISH_GUIDE_-_NORTHWEST_MI_WEB_455357_7.pdf.

For another perspective,

it should be noted thatthe American Heart Asso-ciation recommends twomeals of fish per week,particularly oily fish suchas lake trout, salmonand steelhead. However,children and pregnantand nursing women maybe at increased risk forexposure to excessivemercury from fish. For therest of the population, es-pecially middle-aged andolder men as well as post-menopausal women, thebenefits of eating fish far

outweigh the risks withinestablished standards.

To help determine howmuch fish can be eaten,portion sizes have beendeveloped based on a per-sons weight. For a personweighing 45 pounds, twoounces is considered a

portion. If you weigh 90pounds the portion dou-bles to four ounces, andthose weighing 180 poundscan safely consume eightounces at one sitting. Forevery 20 pounds, greateror less than these weights,you add or subtract oneounce of fish.

A serving size can be es-timated by using the adulthand. The outstretchedfull hand including thefingers is equivalent toabout eight ounces. Fourounces is about the sizeof an adult palm. Halfthe size of the adult palmis about the size of a twoounce portion.

Obviously there areconcerns about eating fishfrom Michigan waters,but Mark Breederland ofthe Michigan Sea GrantExtension of NorthwestMichigan notes that,There may be perspec-

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For many Michigan whitetailhunters, the open season doesntstart on Oct. 1. It starts Nov. 15with the firearm opener. By thattime most of the leaves have fall-en and the mercury has really

started struggling to rise.This is when old traditionsare carried on and new tradi-tions are made. This is whenhunting camps sprawl acrosswooded acreage and farm fieldsof Michigan.

For a few short weeks, cer-tain sects of state land startto look like a pumpkin patch,peppered with orange stock-ing caps. Fathers are startingto dust off grandpas old rifleand hand them to their youngsons and daughters to tune inbefore opening day. Some peoplewill shoot their first deer; somepeople will shoot their last. Afew things are certain; Guns willbang, bucks will hang and tradi-tions will carry on.

It was about 14 years ago whenI dropped my first deer. It wasa big-bodied spike horn takenfrom the Gladwin Field Trial ar-ea. I was just a young boy, sittingon a bucket with my WinchesterModel 94 lever action 30-30 onmy lap. My dad was in a stand ofpines not far from me.

I had a pocket full of pista-chios and flavored Tootsie Rollcandies, so lovingly packed upby my grandparents before thehunt. A doe came strolling by

with her head down, bleatingloudly. She wasnt concernedwith me sitting on my bucketust 10 yards from the trail. My

heart was pounding, just think-ing of what might be comingbehind her.

Sure enough, just a few mo-ments later, hot on her trailcame my first whitetail buck.

He looked much bigger thanhe actually was. I was certainthat I was staring down thebarrel at an absolute Michi-gan Monster. He knew I wasthere, and I was in his way. He

thrashed his head around andstomped his feet at me. He wastelling me to get out of there sohe could continue his hot pur-suit of a willing doe.

I raised up that lever action 30-30 and pointed the barrel towardbrown. With one quick triggersqueeze, that deer dropped in

his tracks. I hit him in the spineand he was dead before he hitthe ground.

A lot has changed since Ipulled the trigger on my firstdeer during rifle season. Justas much has stayed the same.I still hunt with that 30-30 thatmy dad and grandpa gave meas a gift. Im a much better shotwith it nowadays though. I stillsnack on pistachios while in thewoods, but Im much more care-ful about the noise and smells Icreate while doing so.

I still hunt from the groundand until this day, Ive neverspent a moment hunting froma tree stand. Today, Id let thatspike horn walk, in hopes thathe makes it through anotherfirearm hunting season in Mich-igan.

In some Michigan countiesit would be illegal to shoot thatfirst deer of mine during the2014 season. New Antler PointRestrictions are changing theway people hunt, in hopes tochange the caliber of deertheyll hunt in the future.

A batch of counties in Michi-gan have adopted Antler PointRestrictions (APRs), limitinghunters 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. BeaverIsland, DMU 487, South Fox Is-land and the entire Upper Penin-sula remain under APRs as theyhave in the past. Deer Manage-ment Unit 487 is a multi-countyunit that consists of PresqueIsle, Montmorency, Alpena, Al-cona, Oscoda and Iosco.

A new license structure is in

effect for the state for the 2014season as well. Every hunter isrequired to have a base license

before theyre able to buy anyother additional licenses. Thebase license costs $11 and itincludes the right to hunt smallgame. Under the new structure,a combination hunt and fish li-cense will cost $76 for Michiganresidents and includes a baselicense, an all species fishinglicense and a combination deerlicense. Deer hunters can gowith a single license option or acombination deer license, cost-ing $20 and $40 respectively.

Much of the 2014 firearmregulations are the same as they

always have been. Some thingshave changed, though, so itsimportant to keep a copy of the

2014 Michigan Hunting Digesthandy. Theyre usually availablefor free wherever licenses aresold.

The safety zone still exists. Itsunlawful to discharge a firearmor bow within 150 yards of anoccupied building, house, cabin,barn or other farm buildings.Of course, firearm hunters muststill wear hunter orange. It canbe a hat, vest, cap, jacket or raingear. It can even be mixed withcamo, as long as the garmentis 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 motorvehicle, rifles, shotguns, muzzle-loaders and other firearmsmust be unloaded. This appliesto both the magazine and the

chamber.They must also be in a caseor carried in the trunk of thevehicle. Its also important toremember that a person carry-ing a firearm, crossbow or bowand arrow in the field during thefirearm deer season must have avalid 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 ornot in their own state. The 2014Michigan Hunting Digest leavesno questions unanswered andits a good idea to get one.

Much of what we all learnedabout hunting didnt come froma pamphlet though. It came fromdads and granddads who wantedto make sure the tradition car-ries on. It came from momsand grandmas who packed thesnacks for the hunters beforethey left. It came from aunts anduncles who sat in the woods withus, hoping to make bagging bigbucks a tradition of their own.

The nights are getting colder.The days are getting shorter.The sweet smell of spent gun-powder fills the air as peoplepractice their shooting skills.The velvet is gone from the ant-

lers and the chase is about tocommence.

There is a lot of uncertaintyin the sport of hunting. Thatswhy it isnt called killing. Butone thing that Michigan sports-men and women can count on,is the season will always come.Someone will get their biggestbuck this year. Someone newwill get hooked on hunting andnew favorite memories will bemade. Thats the firearm deerseason in Michigan. Where gunsbang, bucks hang and traditionscarry on.

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The relative calm and

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As the fall salmon run

starts, it will not be uncom-

mon for there to be count-

less anglers lining thebanks of rivers at any time

of the day trying to hook

a fish 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

OUTLOOKAccording 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 benefited Betsie

Lake anglers. However,

Manistee did not see those

same pushes of fish. An-glers in the Manistee River

and Manistee Lake have

struggled thus far with low

numbers of fish. However,

the big weather switch this

week will likely have the

fish moving, and fishing

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 fish in.

He also mentioned that

this could be a slower year

for overall numbers of

salmon.Most of the fish 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 find food and

survival can be low.

He also wanted to remind

anglers that snagging is

illegal as is lining fish. If a

person is fishing 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 becaught snagging to get a

ticket, he said. Last year,

our Conservation Officers

mounted a huge effort on

the Manistee and Betsie

Rivers and wrote hundreds

of tickets for illegal fish-

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 fishing 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 saidfish 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

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closed a portion of the

lower Betsie River and

the eastern end of the

Betsie Bay to fishing 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 fish-

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

OPPORTUNITIESWhile the river banks

will be crowded for a

month or so, inland lakes

will be vacated and open.

Tonello said fishing 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 fishing should be good

in September, October

and November.

When it comes to panfish, bass and pike, it is

some of the best fishing

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 fishing 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 fishing should

continue to improve on

Lakes Cadillac and Mitch-

ell, as it has for the past

several years.

Lake Missaukee is goodfor panfish, bluegill and

sunfish, in particular,

Tonello said. Although

the first two weeks and

last two weeks of ice

are considered the best

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lakes pike and crappie

can be caught throughout

the season.

The free fishing week-

end this winter is sched-

uled for Feb. 14 and 15.

During that weekend,

anyone can fish without a

license, but still must fol-

low state fishing 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.

Fall offerssome ofthe bestpanfish,

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BY DAVE FOLEY


We arrive at the landingnext to Red Bridge at dawn.A thin cloud of fog floatsust above the Manistee

River, but in the brighten-ing October sky the air is

quickly clearing. Cyndyand I unstrap our kayaksfrom the car roof rack, liftthem off, and carry them tothe edge of the stream. Nor-mally Id next be loadingfishing gear in my kayak.Today Im a photographernot an angler. The bass getthe day off. Instead of pitch-ing lures their way, Ill beseeking to capture digitalimages of fall colors.

The paddling is easy. As itshould be since were goingdownstream. The currenthere is slow, the watersenergy being sapped by thewidening stream as formsTippy Dam Backwaters.We bear to the left to catcha shortcut past an islandand then proceed down tothe mouth of a cove. I tellCyndy to paddle into thebay and then cross in frontof me. Im shooting into thesun, something youre notsupposed to do. But the ef-fect is exactly what I want.Cyndy is in shadow, but heroutline is rimmed in lightand the mist rising off thewater 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 mutedblaze of dusky gold light. Inthe autumn the sun hangslower in the sky and itsrays, passing through theatmosphere, gives the lighta yellowish hue addingmore brilliance to the landit illuminates. The colorsthis time of year are richerrecalling lighting used byartists during the Renais-sance.

A flock of at least several

dozen Canada geese break

into raucous honking whenwe appear. They swimnervously about as if try-

ing to determine if werea threat. Then a couplerise up, wings flapping andfeet quick-stepping acrossthe waters surface beforegetting airborne. The rest,apparently deciding we aredangerous, spring fromthe water and make theirairborne retreat amida cacophony of hoarsesquawks.

A pair of mute swanshandle our arrival moregracefully, swimming awayslowly at our approach.These elegant white birds

with s-curved necks and

raised wing feathers arebeautiful, but also thesebirds are invasive. When

they take up residencethey drive off, the nativewaterfowl and other swans.I extend my telephoto lensand capture both birds inmy viewfinder catchingtheir image and their shim-mering reflections laid outbelow them in the glassywater.

We tour the edge ofthe backwater lookingfor splashes of color. Themaples are the most strik-ing and are among thefirst trees to turn, as theirleaves lose their green chlo-

rophyll content. Most red

maples offer a leafy displayof crimson red thoughsome may have a pinkishhue, turn yellow or carrysplotches of several shadesof color. Stands of birchand poplar decked in yellowfoliage add to this autumnpalette of color.

Cyndy paddles close toshore and I angle my kayakto put her in back lightwhich makes the leaveslook like they are their ownsource of light. Add to thatthe dazzling kaleidoscopeof reflected color swim-ming in the water besideher kayak and the effectis stunning. I know thatthese scenes now beingcaught digitally can onlyapproximate the reality ofwhat I am seeing so after Iclick the shutter, I put thecamera in my lap and takea moment to absorb thescene firsthand. We stopfor lunch at Eagle point aspot weve named becauseof the enormous raft ofsticks that sits high in anoak. Today we think wecan see an eagle sitting onthe nest, but it is hard totell. On other trips we haveobserved the bird perchedthere and on one occasionit flew off using powerfulwing strokes to carry itacross the bay and into theforest.

Paddling back toward thelanding, we look to explore

new areas. The backwaterhas so many islands, bays,and passages that we canchart a course that will re-veal sites we didnt see ear-lier in the day. This varietyis a welcome change fromhaving to back track on thereturn along an out-and-back route. As we enter thelast mile before Red Bridge,the current becomes notice-able and we paddle harder.Theres a stretch of shallowwater, that requires somemaneuvering to avoid be-ing grounded in the sand,

but we zigzag across it and

remain afloat. The rivermakes a final right turnand we can see the landing,we dig in, pushing againstthe flow until we arrive atthe boat launch. Its been agreat day to be out on thewater. We left some choresundone at home, but they

can be put off until theweather sours. Today wecouldnt resist breakingaway to celebrate the beau-ty of autumn in northernMichigan.

Catching peak color isnot hard. In this area itsusually the first week ofOctober. The shortening ofdays is the prime predic-tor of when the leaves willturn, although extendeddrought, excessive rain,and early hard freezes can

result in muted autumnfoliage. Warm, sunny daysfollowed by cool, not freez-ing nights, that is the ac-cepted recipe for maximumfall color.

Best views of fall colors might be from a canoe or kayak

DAVE FOLEY | SPECIAL TO THE CADILLAC NEWS

Reflections in water make the splendor of autumn color evenmore stunning.

outdoor guide 2014

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