Eric Sharp

MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. -- Busted!

Only 25 yards away and nibbling steadily closer, the big doe grazing on the left already had been converted into 50 pounds of chops, steaks, roasts and venison burger in my mind when something caught her eye.

She gave me a laser stare for 10 seconds without raising her head, then whistled an alarm snort, wheeled and bounded over the side of the hill with her two companions hot on her heels.

I thought I was pretty well camouflaged in my tree, which was at the edge of an open area with a thick screen of leaves behind the stand to help hide movement. But she apparently picked up something when I turned on the camera to take a photograph.

MANISTEE, Mich. -- They were tough, brave young men who during World War II flew long, dangerous missions in airplanes that seem incredibly primitive to us today.

On a bombing run over Germany in 1943 flight engineer Frank Lopetrone got shrapnel in his hand from anti-aircraft fire but didn't know he was wounded until he got back on the ground and stripped his glove off.

The unpressurized B-24 bombers were so cold at 30,000 feet that the crew's hands were always half-frozen, and he didn't feel the pain until they thawed after the plane returned to its base in Italy.

DETROIT -- Between them, Ted and Nick Voutsaras have 150 years of deer hunting experience.

GRAYLING, Mich. -- A young man named James Schafer has been in China with an American trade delegation working on a deal to have his family-owned Schafer Fisheries ship Asian carp from the Mississippi and Illinois rivers to China.

BAY CITY, Mich. -- American carp are patsies compared to their European cousins, which have been targeted by anglers for centuries. That's why we can still catch the smartest fish in fresh water easily with corn and bread balls.

LINWOOD, Mich. -- A lot of anglers were bummed after warm temperatures and high winds broke up the ice on Saginaw Bay a couple of weeks ago. As the water re-froze, there were a lot of thin spots and open cracks that made it unsafe to run 5-10 miles offshore to the traditional walleye grounds.

If you're going to hunt turkeys this spring, now is a good time to start scouting the area you will hunt. The turkeys will often be gathered in big flocks that make it easier to spot them, especially when there's snow.