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Turkey permits available for UP

Outdoors report

IRON MOUNTAIN — Spring turkey licenses remain available for an Upper Peninsula hunt that begins April 22 and runs through May 31.

You can buy a license from any license agent, online at Michigan.gov/DNRLicenses, or through the Michigan DNR Hunt Fish app. More information is available at https://www.michigan.gov/dnr/things-to-do/hunting/turkey.

Wisconsin’s spring turkey season opens with a statewide youth hunt April 15-16. Youth hunters must have completed hunter education or participated in the mentored hunting program to be eligible.

Wisconsin’s spring turkey season consists of six one-week hunting periods beginning April 19 and running through May 30. As of Friday, a few dozen harvest authorizations were available for the final hunting period in Zone 5, which includes the eastern half of Florence County and all of Marinette County.

For more, go to https://dnr.wisconsin.gov/permits/springturkey.html.

Anglers are reminded that a new license year starts today in both Michigan and Wisconsin. Anglers must carry a paper copy of their license/stamps while fishing on Lake Michigan, Lake Superior and the Wisconsin-Michigan boundary waters.

In Marinette, Wis., most fishing was taking place below the Hattie Street Dam on the Menominee River, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources said. A few browns and walleyes were caught and most the river was fairly ice-free.

The Michigan DNR reported this Upper Peninsula activity:

Little Bay de Noc: Anglers reported fair to good perch fishing, with varying degrees of success day-to-day. Anglers were fishing the mud flats, as well as deep water near reefs. Anglers were having most action when using wigglers. Anglers on the mud flats, and in front of Kipling, were having to sort through small fish.

Keweenaw Bay: Anglers were out every day in front of the Falls River and out in deeper water from the Baraga boat launch. The main catch in front of the Falls River was coho salmon with a mix of rainbow trout and brown trout occasionally. Anglers used a wide range of tactics to pull in these fish from using artificial and natural baits to using tip-ups and active jigging techniques. In the deeper water, anglers were actively jigging with both natural and artificial baits and mostly caught whitefish with herring being a substantial portion of the catch as well. Anglers in both locations found their best fishing during the mornings and early afternoons. Some anglers were fishing through the ice for smelt as they are reporting clouds of smelt below the ice.

Les Cheneaux: Anglers were doing well catching splake in Wilderness Bay, however just recently the ice conditions have deteriorated out there. Hessel Bay was slowly breaking up. Anglers were still catching a few

Munising: Anglers reported that the best time for fishing was in the mornings. Fishing pressure was low with a few more coho reported over the weekend. Anglers also reported scattered catches of splake and herring. Whitefish anglers reported low catches. Only scattered reports of smelt/burbot for night anglers.

Marquette: Rainbow trout were slowly running in the Carp River, but no word on any fish species other than brown trout out of the Chocolay.

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