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It’s the week before the brown drakes. Yellow bug week. Popcorn caddis (okay, cream and olive), two sizes of sulphurs, march browns, yellow sallies. Tie on a Robert’s Yellow Drake, size 14, and blind fish. If the fish are rising, fine tune a bit. Yesterday evening the fish in the
[…] to the spawn and now on to the post-spawn. Here’s the latest from the frontlines of the Grand River and it’s tributaries. […]
It seems like within a matter of days the smallmouth have gone from the pre-spawn to the spawn and now on to the post-spawn. Here’s the latest from the frontlines of the Grand
The shop is currently open 8am to 6pm daily. We are stocked up on everything you might need (or want) for all our local streams and lakes. We are still seeing some items that are not available, but we have supplemented substitute products to fill those voids. Lots of dry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEoTnoWh1bI #marquette #northtrails #mountainbiking Myself and two buddies decided to travel to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to the outdoor town of Marquette for some much needed destination mountain biking. We spend time at South and North Trails. These trails are incredible and feel as out West as anything could
(Marks Incredible 17lb Muskegon River Steelhead)
You remember it more when you gotta work for it. It’s one thing to hook large steelhead and another to get it in the boat. I think Mark would agree, it’s not easy but it’s so much fun to fight these powerful fish
(Johns beautiful Muskegon River Steelhead)
What originated into a trout trip quickly became a steelhead dream as the recent rains yet again pushed up another run of fresh steelhead.
John from Minnesota with a gorgeous Muskegon river steelhead.
(John with another brought to the net)
Haven’t seen incredible flows
After two days of Spring it seemed like we went right to Summer with last week’s temperatures and weather. Hatches are kind of jumbled on the trout streams (Manistee and Au Sable rivers), but if headed out, be sure to have Hendricksons and Caddis. Pack some Sulphurs and Mahoganies, too,
Muskegon River Fishing Report – May 18, 2022 – Newaygo, Michigan
A very chunky Muskegon river brown trout !
The Muskegon river fishing report for May 18, 2022 in the Newaygo, Michigan area is about the transition from the spring steelhead run, into prime trout dry fly fishing below Croton
This is the bug soup season: Multiple hatches that can epitomize the best parts of fly-fishing. The angler must play by the rules of the trout. Sometimes all the trout are eating the same thing, which makes for easy fishing if you can figure that one thing out. More commonly, the
