Author Jack Payne with a large pike.

by Jack Payne

Thump, thump, thump and wham, well more like a dead weight causing the blade rotation to stop. A good hard sweep of the rod and instantly a bass was walking across the surface doing its’ best to spit the spinner into my face.

If the jig is the ultimate multi species lure, then the spinner is second. Spinners put the hurt on the bass, pike, musky and often the crappie. More bass and pike would end up in the boat if even half the number of anglers throwing plastic worms would give this lure an honest chance.

Jim Houston made his mark on the tournament trail throwing spinners. Once the water temperature hits the 50-degree mark, spinners start coming into their own. Serious pike and musky anglers run some type of a spinner from ice out up to freeze over.

Spinners are their best when worked in and around cover. Logs, vertical uprights, stumps and concrete all beg for a spinner to bump into them. This is the hardest lesson to teach an angler. Run the spinner into something; take a chance.

New weed growth or for that matter, any cabbage weed bed, holds pike year around. Fishing around weeds provides an angler multiple options. Run the spinner just under the surface and just over the tops of the weeds.

Run the spinner through the weeds. Work the spinner through the clumps pausing at any opening. Try the same thing in and around lily pads before they get choked full.

Pike and a weed line are always good. In the early portion of the year run the spinner on the inside of the weed line. As the weeds develop and the fish complete their spawning duties, start working the deep edge of the weeds.

Start your first retrieve near the surface then steadily work deeper with each following cast. When working the deep side of the weeds cast a few times onto the flat and then when the spinner reaches the edge of the weeds let it helicopter down to the bottom. Pay close attention to your line and maintain some tension.

During a cold front run the spinner as slow as possible but just fast enough to turn the blade. Cast out and let it fall to the bottom. Once you have slack line start reeling as slow as possible.

Adding a plastic action tail to your spinner at times enhances the effectiveness. This is something we do during the heat of the summer.

Match your spinner color to the water clarity. Dark days use a dark spinner, bright days something more translucent. Murky waters go with chartreuse color. Pike anglers can’t go wrong with white. There is just something about white that drives pike nuts.

Spoons go back one hundred years and ask any old time angler what he caught his first pike on and my guess is a spoon. Spoons cast like a bullet, can be worked fast, slow, jigged or trolled.

Spoons can be fished straight out of the package or dressed up with a piece of pork or a plastic action tail. Spoons can be worked in the same locations as a spinner. In addition, a spinner can be fished deep or over the tops of suspended fish.

When fishing a spoon just remember to change things up. Change the speed of the retrieve and vary the time that you allow the spoon to sink before starting your retrieve.

The Johnson Silver Minnow Spoon is an old time favorite that we use each time out as is the Daredevle Spoon. Mepps Spinners with the squirrel dressing are great and just about any of the safety pin style bass spinners will work. Productive and easy to learn, these baits will hammer the pike.

Jack Payne lives in West Michigan, and is a member of the Outdoor Writers of American Association.

Baby birds, like these geese, will usually continue to be fed by their parents, even if it appears they’ve been left alone. The DNR advises that if you find baby animals in the wild, it’s best to leave them there.

It happens every spring. Someone finds an “abandoned” fawn and takes it upon themselves to “rescue” it. The Department of Natural Resources’ Wildlife Division staff has a word of advice: Don’t.
“When young fawns are born, they’re not very mobile and don’t appear to have much scent to them so their best defense is to just stay still, on their own, apart from their mother,” explained Brent Rudolph, the deer and elk program leader for the DNR. “Predators can’t track them down by following mom around, so she stays away and the fawns stay alone–that’s their best defense during their first few days of life.”
For the most part, does know exactly where their fawns are. “Sometimes what mom sees as a safe place to stash a fawn is a flower bed at the edge of the house or maybe underneath a deck,” Rudolph said. “So people think ‘That’s a weird place for a fawn—it must be an orphan.’ Generally they’re not orphaned. Through those first few weeks, mom will feed them, clean them, check up on them, and then take off again so she’s not drawing attention to them. So we encourage people to let them be.”
There are times—say, you find a dead doe by the side of the road with a nearby fawn—when fawns have been orphaned. Remember it is illegal to take them into your home. Call a licensed rehabilitator if you feel the need. For a list of licensed wildlife rehabilitators, visit www.michigandnr.com/dlr/.
The same advice applies to other animals as well. Though many young animals are adorable as babies, raccoons, for instance, they grow up to be less adorable as adults.
According to DNR wildlife biologist Erin Victory, wild animals do not make good pets and once habituated to humans, they generally do not do well, when returned to the wild. They also pose the possibility of bringing disease or parasites that could affect you or your pets into your home. Raccoons, for example, are not only potentially rabid, but they can carry canine distemper, not to mention round worms, fleas and mange.
“Please resist the urge to try to help seemingly abandoned fawns or other animal babies this spring,” Victory said. “We appreciate the good intentions of those who want to help, but animals are better off left alone than if they are removed from the wild.”
Tari Howard, a licensed rehabilitator in Benton Harbor, said she always tells people who have picked up young animals to check and make sure mom’s not around, especially in the case of fawns. “People say, ‘Well, I’ve already touched it,’ but that generally doesn’t seem to matter. I think it’s a myth.”
Howard said she gets a fair number of baby rabbits and squirrels that come to her “eyes closed and hairless.” It’s a 50-50 proposition as to whether they live, she said.
As for birds, the advice is the same. Remember when you were a kid and someone told you that if you touched a baby bird, its mother would either abandon it or kill it? “Not true,” said Karen Cleveland, the DNR’s all bird biologist. “If it’s completely defenseless and can’t move on its own, the short version is: Stick it back into the nest, if you can. If it’s got little feathers on it and it looks like a bird rather than a ball of fluff, odds are it already tried to fledge from its nest before it was ready to fly. Generally, mom and dad will continue to feed it.” Young birds that appear grounded may be found a good distance from the nest, Cleveland said, because they walk and search for shelter from predators.
“It’s probably not ready to fly but it thinks it is, and then it ends up on the ground, because its feathers can’t get it airborne,” Cleveland said. “Little birds have been coming out of the nest too early since little birds have been around.”
Cleveland said the DNR regularly fields calls from homeowners who have found ducks—mostly mallards—nesting in their shrubs or garden. “The thing to do is enjoy it. Back off. Leave them alone. Keep the dogs and cats and kids away from it,” she said. “They’ll be a very quiet neighbor and if the nest fails on its own—something that happens regularly—just wish her luck on her next attempt. If a nest is unsuccessful she’ll try to find someplace else to nest. And if she’s successful there, she may come back.”
Cleveland reminded folks that it is illegal to take birds, just as it is mammals, into their homes without permits to do so. “There are licensed rehabilitators who can work with them if necessary,” she said. “But it’s better for the bird to be raised by their parents, to learn all they need to know to live in the wild rather than to be raised by a human.”
For more information about specific species or wildlife viewing opportunities, visit www.michigan.gov/wildlife.

By Ranger Steve Mueller

Earth Week should help us focus on our local community and things occurring in our neighborhoods that affect our daily lives. This might help us be better citizens. If we get to know the species that enrich our soils, purify our water, remove natural and human-caused pollutants, clean the air, and enhance biodiversity, we might be more empathetic and care more about their lives.
In Florida, a man died after disappearing when his bedroom fell into a sinkhole. It is a family tragedy. We care most about those closest to us and we empathize with that family’s loss. Headlines focus on natural tragedies around the world affecting humans. We hear good stories but it seems we focus on sharing bad stories. I want to know about problems I can rectify, resolve, or avoid. Human car accident deaths make news because they happen to one of our own. It does not make news when cars kill a deer, fox, squirrel, mink, song sparrow, ruffed grouse, monarch butterfly, cecropia moth, milkweed beetle and other species. Most small things killed are not even noticed until we clean their dead bodies from our windshields. We lack empathy for their lives because we do not know them or how they benefit our community.
Abundant species biodiversity ensures better functioning ecosystems and reduces time, energy, and money required to maintain a healthy community that supports our livelihood, pleasure, and basic survival needs. We evolved in association with other species yet systematically eliminate other species, not realizing we need their presence for society to function healthy and economically.
We view some species as bothersome and would prefer they not be present. Things like black flies, mosquitoes, termites, and wasps are targets for our destruction. In our quest, we often alter environments and kill thousands of species. Most species provide benefits for fruit tree and crop pollination, natural pest control, or are food for species we desire like Baltimore Orioles. Narrow focused pest management practices damage ecosystems. Aldo Leopold revolutionized wildlife management practices from single species management to ecosystem management practices with his 1933 text Wildlife Management. We could apply those principles to pest management in our home landscape to restore damaged natural communities for the benefit of our children, grandchildren and great grandchildren.
It is not that we do not care about future generations. We have become more isolated from working the land or spending time in nature. We do not get to know our neighbors or their importance. By neighbors, I refer to species that share nature niches. Focus attention on the dozens of species of moths by the porch light. Most are helpful beneficial neighbors. Over 1000 species of moths have important functions in our community. Most people might only think of tomato hornworms, clothes moths, or exotic Gypsy Moths and conclude all moths are bad. This Earth Week start encouraging others to notice the beneficial creatures in ecosystems instead of focusing on those we consider bad.
Most of the moths in the yard are food for the birds we hope to see. Many pollinate plants we hope establish in wild areas of the yard. Wasps eat a great many caterpillars and prevent them from causing serious damage to plants. Spend more time getting to know nature niche neighbors that share your yard. There is more than a lifetime’s effort and enjoyment within footsteps. The variety of species is great and can only be protected once we get to know the species that share the yard. Begin to empathize with their lives this Earth Week, the entire year, and your lifetime.
Natural history questions or topic suggestions can be directed to Ranger Steve (Mueller) at the odybrook@chartermi.net Ody Brook, 13010 Northland Dr, Cedar Springs, MI 49319-8433.

From the Michigan DNR

Several fishing seasons open Saturday
You may want to get ready for the opening of several fishing seasons coming this Saturday, April 27!
The statewide trout season; Lower Peninsula inland walleye, northern pike and muskellunge seasons; and the catch-and-immediate release seasons for largemouth and smallmouth bass in the Lower Peninsula all open that day.
It should be noted that in Upper Peninsula waters, the walleye, pike and muskellunge seasons don’t open until May 15, which is the same date the catch-and-immediate-release season for bass opens in those same waters.
Possession season for bass opens statewide on Saturday, May 25, except for Lake St. Clair, St. Clair River and the Detroit River which open on Saturday, June 15.
The new license season began on April 1, so anglers need to be sure they have purchased a new fishing license for this season. The 2013 fishing licenses remain valid until March 31, 2014. For information on purchasing a license, visit www.michigan.gov/fishinglicense.

The 2013 Michigan Fishing Guide and Inland Trout & Salmon Maps are available online, visit the DNR website at www.michigan.gov/fishingguide for more information.
Walleye daily possession limit for Lake Erie to stay at six
Again this year the daily possession limit for walleye in Michigan’s waters of Lake Erie will be six starting May 1, 2013.
Michigan’s daily creel limit for walleyes on Lake Erie is based on its share of the Total Allowable Catch (TAC) for the lake, which is determined by the Lake Erie Committee under the guidance of the Great Lakes Fishery Commission.
The TAC is based on the overall abundance of walleyes. The committee establishes quotas for each jurisdiction based on the percentage of habitat for adult walleyes in each jurisdiction’s waters of the lake. The daily limit is based on a formula that projects how many walleyes anglers can keep but still remain within the quota.
The 2013 Total Allowable Catch for Lake Erie is 3.356 million fish, making Michigan’s quota 196,000 fish. This equates to a daily possession limit of six fish. 
For 2013, there are no changes to either the fishing season or size limit for walleyes on Lake Erie.

Sue Harrison, of Nelson Township, sent us this adorable picture of three baby bunnies. She wrote: “When my husband Phil was cleaning out some of our flower beds, he discovered these three baby bunnies in a nest about the size of half a softball. When we first saw them, they were covered up with Mama rabbit’s fur and leaves, and were about 1-inch long. In just a short week, each baby has grown to about 1 ½-inches now. So cute! A sure sign that spring is around the corner!
That’s a great sign! And kudos to Sue and Phil for leaving the bunnies in their nest. This time of year, too many folks disturb the young, thinking they are abandoned, when they are not. See the other story on this page, “Leave wildlife in the wild” to learn what to do if you find baby animals.

It’s now time for the frogs to begin singing, including ones like this spring peeper. Photo by the US Geological Society.

Ranger Steve’s Nature Niche

By Ranger Steve Mueller

The long winter wait is over. Up from the mud thousands of frogs are making an appearance. They broadcast for a few weeks and then seem to disappear. Those of us that cling to youth activities of getting wet and muddy will be able to enjoy slippery slimy amphibians until October.

Frogs live unique lives in places that intrigue many of us. Part of their life is spent fishlike. They breathe with gills and swim with tails. Then an awkward transition from youth to adulthood begins. Stubby legs grow and the tail withers. Lungs develop and gills disappear. The tadpole frogs eat algae bacteria and organic matter but change to a carnivore diet with age.

I have not searched my 34 journal volumes thoroughly for beginning dates for the annual spring chorus. My impression is the wood frogs begin singing before other frogs. As soon as ice begins to melt by the shore of vernal pools and temperature reaches about 40 F, the wood frogs start singing. Soon after western chorus frogs and spring peepers sing.

Looking at some of my data, I noted the wood, chorus, and spring peepers began singing on the same date. When it was different the wood frog sang first except for one year when the chorus frog sang first.

The wood frogs sound like a bunch of ducks quacking. Chorus frogs make a sound similar to that of rubbing a thumb across the teeth of comb. Spring peepers simply repeat a single peep. Thousands of peepers are deafening. If you approach a small pond, singing frogs quiet. Sit and wait a few minutes and one will start. Others quickly follow. Soon your ears will physically hurt from the massive volume. Cup your hands behind your ears if you dare. The volume will be more than you can tolerate for long. Then cup your hands in reverse in front of your ears. It is amazing how much the sound is reduced.

Gray tree frogs make a trilling sound but not until temperatures are a bit warmer. The first three species are anxious to call mates when temperatures are about 40 F.

As spring progresses other frogs join the singing and wood frogs are the first to cease singing. Leopard and Pickerel frog populations seem to be declining rapidly. When temperatures are about 70 F, Green frogs join the songfest. American toads are about the last to start but continue well into summer. If lucky, you might hear the croak of a bullfrog. The green frog sounds like someone plucking a guitar or banjo string. The bullfrog sound resembles a bull or cow bellow. The American toad has a most distinctive trill call that seems to continue endlessly. It may only last 30 seconds but that is a long call.

Those mentioned are the most encountered frogs in our area. To help them survive, protect small wet pools that last only through spring to early summer. This is where most frogs reproduce. Fish are not present to eat the eggs and young in temporary pools that only last several weeks. Some larger frogs like green and bullfrogs require permanent water because the young take two years to grow up.

Many frogs head to the woods and gardens for the summer. American toads dig holes in my garden and under some rocks. At night they find it to be a great restaurant. Avoid insecticides in the garden because they kill amphibians and other desirable wildlife. Gray tree frogs tuck themselves into the vinyl siding corners during the day and come out to eat insects at night. We love their reverberating trill during the night.

Michigan DNR requests help documenting the occurrence and abundance of frogs. This is the 18th year of the annual statewide Frog and Toad Survey. Those interested in helping survey are asked to contact SargentL@michigan.gov or 517-373-9418, and to leave your name and address.

Natural history questions or topic suggestions can be directed to Ranger Steve (Mueller) at the odybrook@chartermi.net Ody Brook, 13010 Northland Dr, Cedar Springs, MI 49319-8433.

Monday, April 15, was the beginning of the yearly window when oak wilt can be transmitted from diseased to healthy red oak trees, according to the Department of Natural Resources announced.

According to Dr. Robert Heyd, forest pest management program manager for the DNR’s Forest Resources Division, oak wilt is a serious disease of oak trees—mainly red oaks, including northern red oak, black oak and pin oak. Red oaks often die within a few weeks after becoming infected. White oaks are more resistant, therefore the disease progresses more slowly.

“The normal time-tested advice is to prevent oak wilt by not pruning or otherwise ‘injuring’ oaks from April 15 to July 15,” Heyd said. Heyd added that the spread of oak wilt occurs during this time of year as beetles move spores from fungal fruiting structures on the trees killed last year by oak wilt to wounds on healthy oaks. As warmer weather melts away snow and ice, the beetles that move oak wilt become active. “Anyone who has lost trees to oak wilt knows not to prune or otherwise wound trees from mid-April to mid-June,” Heyd explained.

He said although oak wilt hasn’t been detected in every Michigan county, the need for vigilance is present statewide. “With the transport of firewood and other tree-related activities, you have to assume the risk is present, whether you live in metro Detroit or in the Upper Peninsula.”Oak wilt has already been detected in the following counties: Alcona; Allegan; Alpena; Antrim; Barry; Benzie; Berrien; Calhoun; Cass; Cheboygan; Clinton; Crawford; Dickinson; Genesee; Gladwin; Grand Traverse; Iron; Kalamazoo; Kalkaska; Kent; Lenawee; Livingston; Macomb; Manistee; Menominee; Midland; Missaukee; Monroe; Montcalm; Montmorency; Muskegon; Newaygo; Oakland; Ogemaw; Oscoda; Ottawa; Roscommon; Saginaw; Shiawassee; St. Joseph; Van Buren; Washtenaw; Wayne; and Wexford.

Spring is a popular time for people to move firewood to vacation properties and other locations. During this April-to-July period, Heyd said it’s vital not to move wood from oak wilt-killed trees. These trees are often cut into firewood and moved, sometimes many miles from their original locations. Any wounding of oaks in this new area can result in new oak wilt infections as beetles move spores from the diseased firewood to fresh wounds on otherwise healthy trees.

The DNR recommends that anyone who suspects they have oak wilt-tainted firewood should cover it with a plastic tarp all the way to the ground, leaving no openings. This keeps the beetles away and generates heat inside the tarp, helping to destroy the fungus. Once the bark loosens on the firewood, the disease can no longer be spread. New oak wilt sites have been traced to spring and early summer wounding from tree-climbing spikes, rights-of-way pruning, nailing signs on trees and accidental tree-barking. If an oak is wounded during this critical time, the DNR advises residents to cover the wound immediately with either a tree-wound paint or a latex paint to help keep the beetles away. Once an oak is infected, the fungus moves to neighboring red oaks through root grafts. Oaks within approximately 100 feet of each other—depending on the size of the trees—have connected or grafted root systems. Left untreated, oak wilt will continue to move from tree to tree, progressively killing more red oak over an increasingly larger area. These untreated pockets also serve as a source of inoculum for the overland spread of the disease.To get more information on the background, symptoms and prevention of oak wilt, as well as other forest health issues, visit www.michigan.gov/foresthealth and take a look at the DNR’s 2012 Forest Health Highlights Report.

By Ranger Steve Mueller

Aldo Leopold revolutionized wildlife management with his 1933 Game Management textbook. He is most famous for his 1949 Sand County Almanac that formulated “Land Ethic” concepts. He and Rachel Carson share the distinction of being “Conservationists of the 20th Century.”

Leopold changed how wildlife is managed by changing the practice from single species focus to ecosystem focus. He maintained that we must look at the whole natural community. For centuries people only focused on one species at time and did not consider the impact of narrow focus in regards to environmental health.

Following his publication, scientists and the general public began looking at how the ecosystems function and how our lives and economy are impacted by our practices. Rachel Carson brought it to public attention that DDT and other chemicals were not only harming wildlife and destroying biodiversity but were harming humans.

There will always be those that do not care if negative impacts affect families if they can make more money for themselves. When it became apparent that the sleeping aid Thalidomide caused children to be born with stubs for legs and arms, the medicine was outlawed. More testing was required on drugs while some people do not think public protection merits laws to protect people or wildlife.

There is always a struggle between self-interest and public interest. There are efforts to persuade public opinion away from public interest so that individuals can do more activities without considering their impacts on the general public and health of the environment that supports us.

As Earth Day approaches (April 22) there is controversial legislation in Michigan (Senate Bill 78) that will prevent wildlife biologists from considering biodiversity in management practices if passed. SB 78 redefines “biological conservation” and restricts the ability of the Department of Natural Resources to consider “biodiversity” when managing state lands.

The bill would amend several parts of the Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Act to do the following:

– Prohibit the DNR and the Natural Resources Commission from enforcing a rule that designates an area of land specifically for the purpose of achieving or maintaining biological diversity.

– Delete the conservation of biological diversity from the DNR’s duties to balance its management activities with economic values.

– Eliminate a requirement that the DNR manage forests in a manner that promotes restoration.

– Provide that a State department or agency would not have to designate or classify an area of land specifically for the purpose of achieving or maintaining biological diversity.

– Revise the definition of “conservation” with regard to biological diversity.

– Delete a legislative finding that most losses of biological diversity are the result of human activity.

Perhaps the best thing you can do for our community this Earth Day is read the bill and contact your legislators with your thoughts.

Natural history questions or topic suggestions can be directed to Ranger Steve (Mueller) at the odybrook@chartermi.net Ody Brook, 13010 Northland Dr, Cedar Springs, MI 49319-8433.

Hungry bears emerging from their winter hibernation are often attracted to bird feeders. To avoid problems with nuisance bears, the Department of Natural Resources advises Michigan residents to take bird feeders down temporarily until natural food sources become available.

Although it is still quite cold outside, Michigan’s wildlife knows the spring season is here (based on the increase of daylight hours) and is beginning to wake up from its winter hibernation. Bears are one of the animals starting to emerge from their dens. Food and mating are the two drivers behind the increase of wildlife that Michigan residents may be seeing lately. Since bears typically mate in June or July, food is the primary cause for the increase in bear activity during the spring.

“At this time of year, bears are looking for food,” said DNR bear and furbearer specialist Adam Bump. “They are hungry after spending months in their dens, and while we might not think of bird feeders and trash cans as food sources, a hungry bear certainly may.”

Each spring, as bears leave their winter dens and resume daily activity, wildlife officials begin receiving calls about bear sightings and even the occasional bear damaging bird feeders, trash cans and grills. Birdseed is especially attractive to bears because of its high fat content and easy accessibility. Once bird feeders are discovered, bears will keep coming back until the seed is gone or the feeders have been removed.

“The majority of complaints we receive about nuisance bears in the spring involve a food source. The easiest thing people can do to avoid creating a problem is to temporarily take in their bird feeders and store other attractants, like grills, trash cans and pet food, in a garage or storage shed,” Bump said. “Once the woods green up, bears tend to move on to find more natural sources of food, as long as they haven’t become habituated to the birdseed or garbage cans.”

Bears that are rewarded with food each time they visit a yard can become habituated to these food sources unintentionally provided by people. This can create an unsafe situation for the bear and become a nuisance for landowners if a bear continuously visits their yard during the day and repeatedly destroys private property in search of food.

DNR Wildlife Division staff members are unable to respond directly to each nuisance bear complaint, and instead ask that landowners do their part to help reduce potential food sources in their yards first before calling for further assistance. The trapping of nuisance bears is only authorized by DNR wildlife officials in cases of significant property damage or threats to human safety when other techniques have failed. Anyone who is experiencing problems with nuisance bears and has taken the appropriate action to remove food sources for a period of two to three weeks, but has not seen results, should contact the nearest DNR office and speak with a wildlife biologist or technician for further assistance.

For more information, go to www.michigan.gov/bear.

The Department of Natural Resources today reminded anglers that a new fishing license season begins Monday, April 1. All 2012 fishing licenses expire on March 31, 2013.

Anglers have a choice of a variety of licenses and prices are unchanged from 2012. Fishing license options include:

24-hour license (good for all species)

72-hour license (good for all species)

Restricted license (good for the entire season for all species except trout, salmon, lake sturgeon, lake herring,

amphibians, reptiles or crustaceans)

All-species license (good for the entire season for all species)

Visit the online version of the 2013 Fishing Guide for license fee details.

Fishing license fees fund a variety of activities, including fish management work on Michigan’s waters, habitat rehabilitation and protection, fish stocking, information distribution, education and outreach efforts to anglers and the public, and much more. Fisheries Division does not receive any general funds and depends on angler fees, through license sales and federal excise tax dollars for fishing tackle, to manage Michigan’s fisheries. The purchase of a fishing license, even for someone who does not plan to fish, can make a big difference to the future health of Michigan’s prized waters and fisheries.

There are three simple ways to purchase a fishing license in Michigan:

1. Visit a local license retailer or DNR Operations Service Center and make a purchase in person.

2. Use the E-License system to buy a license online 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Just visit www.mdnrelicense.com to get started.

3. Visit the Mobile Fish website on your smartphone at www.mi.gov/fish to buy a 24-hour all-species fishing license. All that’s needed is the purchaser’s driver’s license number and a credit or debit card.

For more information on fishing in Michigan, visit www.michigan.gov/fishing.