Marie has been certified as the Michigan 20-pound test line record by the International Game Fish Association.
Seasons vary by area.
Opens April 28 statewide. Instruction in more than two dozen outdoors activities from mountain biking to shooting. For women 18 and older, limited to 100 participants. Orchard Lake Rd., West Bloomfield. Ellen Elliott Weatherbee, head of the adult education program at the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens, will lead the group on a hike through the area, identifying trees, spring flowers and mushrooms.