Cheboygan News & Rant-Rave Info Page

01/06/2026

House fire in Cheboygan

01/06/2026

01/06/2026

Wow

A Rochester Hills man who got engaged on Skybridge Michigan at Boyne nearly had the proposal ruined when the ring slipped through his fingers and through the grate, falling 118 feet to the snow below.

See the video and more on the story at the link in the comments.

01/06/2026

01/05/2026

From the DNR:

2026 Black Lake sturgeon season opens Feb. 7

The 2026 lake sturgeon fishing season on Black Lake in Cheboygan County, Michigan, will begin at 8 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 7. All anglers must register online to participate in the fishing season, and those age 17 or older must have a valid Michigan fishing license.

The harvest limit for the 2026 season on Black Lake is six lake sturgeon. Officials will close the season when one of two scenarios occurs:

The sixth fish is harvested.
Five fish have been harvested at the end of any fishing day.
Fishing hours are 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. each day of the season. The season will end either at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 11, or when one of the above scenarios is met, at which point anglers will be notified via text message and on the ice by Michigan Department of Natural Resources personnel that they must immediately stop fishing for lake sturgeon.

Anyone who wants to participate must register online by close of business Friday, Feb. 6. Get more registration and season information at Michigan.gov/Sturgeon.

The 2025 Black Lake sturgeon season ended after only 17 minutes of fishing, at 8:17 a.m. Feb. 1.

Participating anglers must bring their own bright red flags (1-foot diameter or larger) to hang on their fishing shanties. Season officials emphasize that anglers are required to hang one or more flags in highly visible locations on their shanties so DNR personnel can readily identify which anglers are sturgeon fishing.

Anglers harvesting a lake sturgeon must immediately contact DNR personnel on the ice. Official registration of each harvested fish will take place at a DNR trailer located on or near the ice at the end of Zollner Road in the northwest part of Black Lake. Harvest registration may include an examination of the fish's internal organs and removal of a piece of fin tissue for DNA analysis or aging.

Lake sturgeon rehabilitation efforts in Black Lake over the last two decades have been a successful collaboration between the DNR, Sturgeon for Tomorrow, tribal agencies, Michigan State University and Tower-Kleber Limited Partnership. This population has increased in the past 20 years due to lake sturgeon rearing and stocking efforts, research and protection of spawning adults, and this trend is expected to continue.

Information on identification, fishing, habitat and more on Lake Sturgeon in Michigan.

01/05/2026

The Dirty DUCK

01/05/2026

Looks like Snickers and Oreo are looking for a forever home.

01/05/2026

01/05/2026

The USA can do great things.
We are wealthy.
We are powerful.
We can drop into Venezuela and pick up their guy.
We can interrogate him for 12+ hours on a super-duper ship.
We can then drop him off in New York City for prosecution.

But we can’t release the Epstein files?