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			<title><![CDATA[St. Clair breathalyzers rankle anglers]]></title>
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			<author>(Dave Spratt)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[We've all heard Jeff Foxworthy's line about being too drunk to fish.
The cops who patrol Lake St. Clair aren't laughing.
Word around the lake is that they're stopping anglers and performing breathalyzers to make sure everybody is boating sober.
I'm sure they'd tell you that they're getting tired]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 2:11 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Take a kid fishing]]></title>
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			<author>(Dave Spratt)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[If you've wanted to take a kid fishing, here's an excellent opportunity.
The Lake St. Clair Walleye Association is sponsoring its annual kids fishing outing on July 27 at Metro Beach Metropark.
The event is designed to pair fishing with fun, which is crucial to getting kids interested. Besides]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 11:33 AM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Dang, missed again]]></title>
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			<author>(Dave Spratt)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[OK, I understand the odds of drawing an Michigan elk tag. Even with five chances this year, my odds were one in don't-even-think-about-it-chump.
Still, whenever I go to the 

DNR Web site to  check the drawing, my reaction is the same.
I start out thinking -- KNOWING -- there's not a snowball's]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 3:03 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Egads! They're cleaning fish on CNN!]]></title>
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			<author>(Dave Spratt)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[Is this what we've come to?
The CNN video opens with this disclaimer: "This report contains graphic content. Viewer discretion is advised."
Oh my, what could it be? Horrible images from a war zone? Brutality of innocent people?
Ah, no. This graphic content shows ... some guys cleaning fish. The]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 3:23 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Wolf plan sure to stir controversy]]></title>
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			<author>(Dave Spratt)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[Remember the mourning dove?
You know, the drab little bird with the tasty breasts that we can't hunt in Michigan?
Even though the vast majority of them fly to Ohio and Indiana to get shot at?
And they reproduce so furiously that they cheerfully withstand 70-percent mortality rates and come back]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 12:27 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Help keep VHS in check]]></title>
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			<author>(Dave Spratt)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[The DNR is asking anglers to help keep viral hemmorhagic septicimia (VHS) in check this summer. Considering the devastation that incurable disease could wreak on our fish populations, that's not asking much.
It's this simple:
-- Don't move water. When you leave a lake or river, empty the live well]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 2:59 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Smallmouth deaths likely from spawning stress, fishing pressure]]></title>
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			<author>(Dave Spratt)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[A friend who lives on Lake St. Clair reports that he saw 35 dead smallmouth bass in several hours on the lake last night.
The Lake St. Clair message boards suggest he's not the only one.
But Mike Thomas, a biologist at the DNR's Lake St. Clair Fisheries Research Station, says that's not enough]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 2:41 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Only hunters can fix Michigan's out-of-whack herd]]></title>
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			<author>(Dave Spratt)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[My friend Bob hunts Wexford County in the northwestern Lower Peninsula.
His 2007 hunt looked like this: 22 does, zero bucks and nothing killed. That's because last year there were no antlerless tags issued for Wexford.
So he's delighted that this year the Natural Resources Commissions added]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 3:09 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Proposed U.P. buck rule isn't honest]]></title>
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			<author>(Dave Spratt)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[Changes to antlerless regulations?
Check.
Add albino and all-white deer to the list of animals that can be hunted legally?
Check.
Make substantive, measurable changes to buck regulations in response to the growing number of hunters who want to let little bucks walk so they can improve their]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 10:54 AM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The most important lesson]]></title>
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			<author>(Dave Spratt)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[My daughter Natalie said the magic words:
"It's weird holding a lethal weapon."
Yeah, she really said it. In those words.
It was her first hunt as a shooter. Sure, she's been along, but only as a spectator. A buddy. Along for the ride, but still not in.
 The quarry was turkey. Her weapon was a]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, May 29, 2008 at 3:29 PM</pubDate>
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