IRON MOUNTAIN — The U.P. Ice Fishing and Hunting Expo continues today and Sunday in and around the Ruth Butler Building on the Upper Peninsula State Fairgrounds in Escanaba.

Hours today are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Eastern time. On Sunday, hours are 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Admission is free, though visitors are asked to bring a item that can be donated to either a food pantry or the Delta County Animal Shelter. Activities include a virtual reality shooting range, a perch pond, fish bingo, hunting seminars, fishing seminars, and games and prizes for children.

Food trucks will be on site and vendors from at least four states — Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio and Minnesota — will be part of the expo. You can find out more at https://www.facebook.com/upicefishing/.

Upper Peninsula Recreational Off-Road ATV Riders, or UPROAR, will host a fall color ride on Saturday, Sept. 28, based at Silver Lake Resort on M-95 in Channing. For information, go to https://www.uproar906.com/current-events.

Tri-County Snowmobile Club will hold a work bee starting at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 5. More information is available at http://www.tricountysnowclub.org/.

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources Wildlife Through Forestry Series returns to the River Rock Lanes and Banquet Center in Ishpeming from 6 to 9 p.m. Eastern time Thursday. The sessions, which are free and open to the public, link wildlife topics to the ways habitat for birds and animals may be enhanced for a range of species on private lands.

Pine marten and fisher are the focus of Thursday’s program. Featured speakers are Jeff Bowman, a researcher for the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry; Jonathan Pauli, a wildlife biologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; and Cody Norton, Michigan DNR bear, furbearer and small game specialist specialist.

More than 150 professional foresters and 20 wildlife biologists develop Forest Stewardship Plans for forest landowners in Michigan. For information about these plans or the Commercial Forest Program, contact Jason Caron, DNR forester at 906-235-4361.

Pink salmon were in the lower Menominee and Peshtigo rivers this week, drawing anglers, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources said. Fly fishing and casting small baits was best as most fish were not actively hitting lures.

A few anglers reported getting limits of perch on the lower Peshtigo River. Minnows were the most popular bait.

The Michigan DNR reported this activity:

Little Bay de Noc: Anglers reported coho salmon in the Escanaba River and around the mouth. Although coho salmon were present in these areas, getting them to bite was tough. Walleye anglers reported fair fishing and had to work hard for any bite. The east shoreline and black bottom were productive when drifting crawler harnesses or jigging. Yellow perch anglers reported fair fishing when launching out of Kipling and around the Escanaba River.

Manistique: Little to no fishing activity in the lake; most anglers were focusing on the river. The pink salmon run was reported to be in full swing. Shore anglers reported good fishing for pink salmon when drifting beads, swinging colorful streams or bright reaction baits such as spinners and jerk baits. Anglers targeting Chinook salmon reported slow fishing and anticipate the push with the next rainfall. Slow fishing activity for walleye.

Marquette: Lake trout were still caught consistently with the most successful anglers making their way out towards the clay banks west of Granite Rock or out toward the sand hole east of the upper harbor’s break wall. The upper harbor still seemed to be the popular choice for anglers to leave from on days that the weather cooperated. Excellent numbers of lake trout were caught jigging or trolling around the northeast side of White Rocks. Low numbers of salmon were caught by anglers. Steelhead numbers continued to increase around thermocline in 30 to 60 feet of water. Black/green UV Devil Dancers or gold/orange from Finn Spoons did well for anglers along with the tried-and-true watermelon and fire tiger patterns. Jigging either a chartreuse/silver or white tube jig worked well around the northeast side of White Rocks, especially with a little cut bait. Trolling between White Rocks towards Granite Rock or the clay banks in around 130 to 160 feet of water was a popular depth range for lake trout and 30 to 60 feet for steelhead and pink salmon.

Au Train: Most boat anglers that made it out fishing did quite well. Lake trout were caught by anglers jigging with cut bait in approximately 160 feet of water north to northeast of Au Train Island. Most anglers trolling reported catching lake trout while in waters around 130 to 180 feet north to northwest of the Au Train Island in the flats or out towards the Laughing White Fish Clay Banks. Hot pink/white Spin-n-Glos, multicolored glow or UV spoons or green/silver flasher flies were all good color combinations. Jigging or trolling with Wonder Bread or chartreuse cowbells produced very well at deeper depths of 130 to 180 feet of water, especially with a little bit of cut bait.

Ontonagon/Silver City/Union Bay: These ports saw very strong fishing efforts over the past week. Reports show that lake trout were caught in high numbers, with many anglers reaching their possession limit in relatively short trips. Anglers had success in finding these fish when trolling across a variety of water depths.