Life’s never easy for smallmouth bass around Washington Island at the tip of Door County, Wisconsin, but this stalwart fish somehow weathers the toughest challenges Lake Michigan can summon. At least that’s how things looked in late May as biologists from the state's Department of Natural Resources conduct a formal checkup on this remote fish population for the first time since 1997. The crews caught smallmouths with Fyke nets at six locations in Detroit Harbor from May 13 through early June to help assess the population’s age and length composition. After measuring each bass,...
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