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Coho Season September 23, 1967, started as an exciting day for thousands of anglers along Michigan’s Lake Michigan shoreline. Coho salmon fishing was at a peak, drawing fishermen from across the Midwest eager to take advantage of the highly anticipated fall salmon run. What followed was a tragic and unforgettable event—the 1967 Coho Salmon Fishing Disaster. There was a sudden, fierce squall that capsized over 150 small fishing boats, caused at least eight deaths, and left dozens injured. The story of this disaster begins a few years earlier. In 1965, Michigan stocked rivers feeding into Lake Michigan with coho salmon… Read More »

🎉 Paul Bunyan Day: Celebrating Oscoda’s Legendary Logger On August 20, 1971, the small town of Oscoda threw a big party, the Paul Bunyan Festival. With pancakes stacked high, folklore flying thick, and a papier-mâché giant lumberjack at the center of it all. Oscodans were on a mission to stake their claim as the true birthplace of Paul Bunyan. And they had receipts. Oscoda’s claim rests on the first known published story of Paul Bunyan. The story written by journalist and former lumberjack James MacGillivray in the Oscoda Press on August 10, 1906. Titled “Round River,” the story was based… Read More »