Editors' Picks, 10.09.10
 It is no secret the Great Lakes are one of the globe’s most incredible natural resources. Erie. Huron. Michigan. Ontario. Superior. Just hearing the names alone stir the passions of the people who live within the region. The Great Lakes Basin is home not only to these majestic sweetwater seas, but also countless inland lakes of all shapes and sizes, thousands of miles of incredible streams and rivers, all in addition to millions of acres of forest that sustains countless species of flora and fauna. … read on → Welcome to StreamsideJournal.com
Kurt Kuban, 10.03.10
 The anticipation that builds up within a deer hunter as Nov. 15 approaches can be all consuming. Days spent at the shooting range, or at the sporting goods store stocking up on ammunition or the bottled doe piss that we hope will draw in the monster buck, just elevate our anticipation even more. … read on → Deer Camp: Why We Return
Freelance Contributor, 09.03.10
 DR. LEE FOOTE: “All it’s going to take is one good movie by Robert Redford and we’ll see yuppies heading into the woods in their SUVs to bag a deer.” Dr. Lee Foote, a biologist and associate professor at the University of Alberta, recently invited students to his backyard for a class on how to gut a deer. Among them were vegetarians and anti-hunters who prefer ramen noodles to venison. … read on → Let Us Prey: Hunting as a Green Activity
Jeff Counts, 08.05.10
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In the late 1970s, years before the Internet, a young Rusty Gates started compiling a weekly report on the Au Sable River for anglers who patronized the family lodge near Grayling. He took the river’s temperature, checked fly hatches and kept track of the fish caught. He also … read on → Home Water, Holy Water: Rusty Gates & the Good Fight
P.A. Rech, 08.04.10
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Why would you do it? Why would you find yourself in the depth of winter in a cold dark shack, on a frozen lake no less, staring intently into a big hole in the ice? Big fish. REALLY big fish up close, that’s why. Fish that if you play your … read on → Tales from the Darkhouse
Kurt Kuban, 08.03.10
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If the Upper Peninsula had a heart, the Whitefish River would slice right through it, which is fitting, because the river shares many of the characteristics people admire about the UP. It is rugged, relatively wild and certainly scenic.
With their origins in Marquette and Alger counties, the … read on → The Whitefish River: Journey Through the Heart of the Upper Peninsula
Kurt Kuban, 07.03.10
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Driving northeast on M-94 heading into Munising in late October, one will encounter a dazzling display of autumn colors. For when fall casts its spell on the wooded hills that shroud the hamlet on Lake Superior’s southern shore, they beam with so many shades of orange, one would swear they … read on → A Superior State of Mind
John Counts, 07.02.10
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You’re picked up at 5 a.m. knowing the rest of the neighborhood is asleep. How couldn’t they be? Day after Thanksgiving, who else is up at this time? The neighborhood is quiet. You rub your eyes, a bit cloudy. You probably shouldn’t have had that last holiday cocktail … read on → Winter Steelheading: We Do It Because We Can
Jeff Counts, 07.01.10
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The Upper Peninsula isn’t a kind a gentle place. In spring and summer the fly hatches are erratic and most times non-existent. Spring is a non-event, and fall, well; it turns to winter all too quickly. So, why go? In the summer it’s for uncrowded trout streams, and in the … read on → Grousin’: It Happens Every Year
Kurt Kuban, 06.20.10
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Most people familiar with his work know about Ernest Hemingway’s love for the Fox River in the Upper Peninsula, which he immortalized in his celebrated short story “Big Two-Hearted River.”
But fewer people know Hemingway, perhaps the state’s most famous fly fisherman, also had a real affection for the … read on → Land of Three Rivers: Black, Pigeon & Sturgeon Rivers form the Backbone of Pigeon River Country
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