# @outdoor_life on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DIwG8QERCa2
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/29701465-outdoor-life-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-04-22T14:10:14.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Outdoor Life (@outdoor_life) — https://gondola.cc/outdoor_life

## Caption

Some might call it sacrilegious. But for Jon Durtka, the outcome of spearing a keeper walleye in Lake Huron isn’t that much different than catching one with a rod-and-reel for the cooler.⁠
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Targeting game fish with a speargun is no less sustainable than hook-and-line fishing, Durtka says, and it’s arguably more challenging. Which is why he and a few other divers from Michigan are trying to normalize the sport in the Great Lakes even as traditionalists oppose their efforts.⁠
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#fishing #fishingseason #fishingtrip #walleye #walleyefishing #spearfishing #spearfish #greatlakes #outdoors #conservation #outdoorlife⁠
📷: purelymispearfishing⁠
Story by: dac.collins

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## Tags

greatlakes, conservation, outdoors, walleyefishing, spearfish, fishing, walleye, spearfishing, fishingseason, outdoorlife, fishingtrip

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