Fishing Hunting

Fishing and hunting has always been a major pursuit of the humans that have inhabited Boyne Valley. Native Americans that lived along Lake Michigan and Lake Charlevoix undoubtedly fished and hunted for food. The first settlers depended heavily on fish and game for food. In fact some of the earliest settlers were a group of fishermen that lived at the mouth of the Pine River (Charlevoix). Sportsmen found the Boyne River very early in history. A. G. Aldrich visited the Boyne and Jordan Rivers in 1858 and found them both to be "alive with grayling". There are still people living in the valley that supplement a major portion of their diet with fish and game.

Fishing and Hunting in the "Good Old Days" in Boyne Valley
and the Surrounding Country

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"Horse and Buggy" trout fishing.	A catch of "hammer handles".	14 lbs of Brook Trout.

John Kawjawski and a Lake Charlevoix northern pike.	Margaret Tooley Goephrich and a successful hunt with a long bow.	Adolph with a Walloon Lake large mouth bass on a fly rod.

Big lake trout.	Boyne River Rainbow.	Lake Charlevoix Lake Trout

Deer camp in the old days.	Bear hunt in the old days.	Elwood Dunlop with his big bear

Harold Aimesbury and Norman LaCroix with bobcat.	Boyd Heaton and Harold Aimesbury with another bobcat