Hunting
If you are new to this activity, you can still learn how to hunt, in one of the Escanaba schools found in the region and offering all the facilities that you require. If you are not interested in hunting, then you might try your hand at fishing as well as golfing. The areas offer various golfing facilities, including a country club as well as various Escanaba schools that offer lessons by a golfing pro.
Hunting is another favorite of locals and tourists. Hunting game include Elk, Bear, Turkey, Deer and other small game. Hunting seasons vary for each animal so it is important to check with the Michigan DNR to confirm dates and regulations.
Deer hunting and deer camp were also the focus of the 2001 movie “Escanaba in da moonlight” starring Jeff Daniels, a resident of Michigan. The file is filmed and set in Escanaba and makes fun of local traditions including the local “accent.” The film’s plot focuses on Reuben Soady (Daniels) who goes to the hunting camp cottage, otherwise known as deer camp, with his father Albert (played by Harve Presnell), brother Remnar (Joey Albright) and Jimmy “the Jimmer” Negamanee from Menominee (Wayne David Parker). If Reuben, now 42, doesn’t manage to shoot a buck by the end of the season, he will become the oldest Soady in recorded history not to have achieved this task, a taboo that leads people in the community to believe he is jinxed. Reuben breaks with tradition, taking advice from his Native American wife Wolf Moon Dance (Kimberly Norris), who offers him spiritual remedies involving a drink made with moose testicles, and porcupine urine to protect him from evil spirits. After various unexplainable phenomena, they meet a DNR officer, Tom T. Treado (Randall Godwin), who claims to have literally seen God on the ridge. At various times, Reuben, Jimmer, and ranger Tom all get possessed by spirits. Eventually, Reuben runs out into the cold wearing only his long underwear and a hat, and finds himself face-to-face with his dead great-grandfather Alphonse, who guides him to shooting a buck sent for him by the spirits. Reuben returns triumphantly.