BY: Bob Campbell ESLA will partner again this summer with Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council to offer three boat wash days at the newly paved DNR Baggs Road public boat launch and the Whitewater Township public ramp. Anyone launching or retrieving a watercraft will be offered a free hull and trailer high pressure spray washdown aimed to removing any invasive plant or animal species that may have been transported from the last waterway where the craft was used. The boat wash schedule is: May 29 (Saturday), 12-4 p.m., DNR Baggs Road ramp on the south side of Skegemog Lake…. Read More »

By Kenneth Krentz Every summer from late June to early July we have a hatch of the biggest mayflies, Hexagenia Limbata, aka Hex flies, on Elk Lake, Skegemog Lake, Rapid River, and most Michigan bodies of water. They also are called giant mayfly, Michigan mayfly or simply fish fly. Their adult life cycle occurs over just a couple days from emergence, mating and egg release, to death. In that short adult stage, they cling to just about anything; boats, docks, hoists, houses, trees, etc. They die over the water and form the big mats of floating corpses we observe. It… Read More »