Fishing Michigan

Michigan, the Great Lakes state, is a great state for anglers. It has more than 11,000 inland lakes, 36,000 miles of streams and more shoreline than any other state other than Alaska. More than one million Michiganders buy licenses every year to fish for a wide variety of species.

In Fishing Michigan, Detroit Free Press outdoors writer Eric Sharp describes the state's major game fish and where and how to catch them. He also writes about some of his adventures -- and misadventures -- in pursuit of a quarry we never can quite figure out.

Eric Sharp, the outdoors writer for the Detroit Free Press, has been a reporter for 35 years. He previously worked for the Buffalo Evening News, the Associated Press and the Miami Herald. Sharp, a native of Scotland, came to this country when he was 10. He has hunted and fished around the world, produced several books on outdoors issues and won numerous awards for his writing.