Michigan Fishing News

HARRISON TOWNSHIP, Michigan- Boater Chip Harrison of Bremen, Indiana, won the Wal-Mart Bass Fishing League® Michigan Division tournament on the St. Clair River Saturday with a five-bass catch weighing 24 pounds. The victory earned Harrison $3,727, plus a $657 Ranger Bonus, and placed him one step closer to qualifying for the Cherokee Lake Regional Championship in Morristown, Tenn., Oct. 16-18, where he could ultimately win a new 198VX Ranger boat and a Chevy truck.

DETROIT, Michigan - High winds meant rough waters for the anglers competing in the $1.5 million Wal-Mart FLW Tour Chevy Open on the Detroit River, but in the end Team Kellogg's pro Alvin Shaw of State Road, North Carolina, caught a final-round total of 10 bass weighing 39 pounds, 11 ounces to win $200,000. Shaw topped his closest rival, Team Pringles pro Vic Vatalaro of Kent, Ohio, by only three ounces to earn the win and 200 points toward qualifying for the $2 million Forrest Wood Cup in Columbia, S.C., where the winner will earn as much as $1 million - the biggest award in bass fishing - Aug. 14-17.

DETROIT, Michigan - Odenville, Alabama, native Scott Canterbury, who made his mark in the Wal-Mart Bass Fishing League before qualifying for the Wal-Mart FLW Tour, won the 2008 Duracell Rookie of the Year award with 817 points over six qualifying events.

Detroit, Michigan - David Dudley of Lynchburg, Virginia, added to his already impressive list of career accomplishments by winning the Land O'Lakes Angler of the Year title Friday at the Wal-Mart FLW Tour's final 2008 qualifier, the Chevy Open on the Detroit River, Lake Erie and Lake St. Clair.

The DNR Lake Michigan Coastal Program (LMCP) and the Coastal Advisory Board kick off the 2009 Coastal Grants funding cycle with a public input meeting, Wednesday, June 25.

The meeting will be at Valparaiso's Forest Park Golf Course Club House, 1155 Sheffield Dr., at 6:15 p.m.

Cheybogan, Michigan- The Michigan Division of the $8.8 million Wal-Mart Bass Fishing League® will visit Burt Mullet Lake in Cheboygan June 7 for the first of five regular-season events. As many as 200 boaters and 200 co-anglers are expected to compete in the tournament, which will award as much as $45,000 in cash, including a top award of $6,000 in the Boater Division.

Whitetails Unlimited Inc., a national, nonprofit conservation organization established in 1982, has a career opportunity for a highly motivated individual as a Field Director. Currently, the organization has in excess of 450 chapters and 75,000 members throughout the United States. This professional, salaried position will be located near the I-75 corridor/Saginaw County, Michigan, with a start date of September 1, 2008, and will report directly to the Vice President - Field Operations.

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The Robert J. Lytle Chapter of the Ruffed Grouse Society along with the Farmland Pheasant Hunters will conduct a Gun Dog Fun Trial on Saturday, April 12, 2008 at the Farmland Pheasant Hunters, 7104 Gosline Road, Brown City Michigan, beginning at 8 a.m.

Bainbridge Island, Washington - The top names in Fly Fishing have joined forces together to put togther a world-class fly fishing outfit as a fundraiser for Trout Unlimited-Alaska to help with their efforts protecting the Bristol Bay watershed.