In three or four days, we celebrate a special day, that being Mother’s Day. There are two important females in all sportsmen’s lives; those are their Mother and their Wives. Both have to be the most forgiving persons in the world.
     Growing up, I watched many a day, which my mother stayed home, taking [...]

CLARE- Clare City Commissioner Bill Horwood is an avid hunter and fisherman.
He has spent time all over the country, hunting deer, ducks and small game, as well as fishing for salmon, trout and steelhead.
“I was born and raised in the Upper Peninsula,” Horwood said. “I also started trapping when I was 12-years-old.”
Horwood said he has [...]

CLARE COUNTY- The baiting ban and slow economy are two things people are blaming for the slower than normal deer season around the area this year.
Ron Morell from Johnston Elevator in Clare said things have definitely slowed down since the baiting ban was put on shortly before deer season.
“I have really seen a cutback in [...]

CLARE COUNTY- As a general rule, if there is a good, solid four inches of ice, the Department of Natural Resources normally deems it safe to fish on.
“Four to six inches is normally best,” Creig Grey, Lieutenant with the law enforcement division of the DNR, Roscommon station, said.
The color of the ice is generally a [...]

CLARE COUNTY- For the second year in a row, Sheriff-elect John Wilson has shot a five-point buck on opening day of deer season with his son.
Wilson said he has been hunting for the last 30 years, since he was 12. The first buck he ever shot was with his bow, and it was an 11-point.

HARRISON- Every year, hunters around the county don blaze orange and camouflage, to take to the woods, in hopes of shooting a deer.
Once they have shot a deer, they have the option to take it to a Department of Natural Resources deer check station, to have it checked for bovine tuberculosis and chronic wasting disease, [...]

CLARE — Because of one of the classes he teaches, seventh-grade conservation, Clare Middle School teacher Jason Koch finds himself in a somewhat unique position: being able to tie one of his hobbies, hunting, into the class lessons he teaches.
This tie between hobby and classroom can be seen before one even walks into Koch’s room, [...]