Free Fishing on Valentine’s Day

Still trying to think of a Valentine’s gift for your sweetheart? What’s more romantic than packing a thermos of hot chocolate and cuddling up in an ice shanty? Valentine’s Day just so happens to fall on Michigan’s Winter Free Fishing Weekend – an annual effort to promote Michigan’s plentiful fishing opportunities. That means you don’t need a license to fish on Saturday or Sunday, though all other regular fishing rules apply. Michigan has been celebrating the Winter Free Fishing weekend annually since 1994 as a way to promote the state’s vast water resources and fishing opportunities. Among them are more than 3,000 miles of Great Lakes shoreline, tens of thousands of miles of rivers and streams, and 11,000 inland lakes.