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https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qQBMNFHZths Driving around the lower Manistee River boat ramps checking out ice flow. Rainbow Bend completely frozen, but High Bridge has open water but bring your shovel and a lot of sand and salt to get out safely.
Happy Belated New Year and all that! (I hope you enjoyed the holidays and are surviving this brutal winter! ) It’s been wayyyyy longer than a little while since I’ve posted here and I’m sorry to disappoint, but this still isn’t “much” of a river or fishing report… I’ve been
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UioBtgSSYSQ Promo for Steelhead Camp with Dark Waters Fly Shop.
Here is a list of our upcoming events:
January 16 and 17: We will be at the Heartland Fly Fishing Festival in Lebanon, Indiana. Kevin will be giving a tying demo on January 16. On January 17, Matt Zudweg will be tying flies and Kevin will
This Saturday, January 17, from 9 am – 12 pm, we’ll be hosting the first of our Free Fly Tying Saturdays! Bring your vise, your tools and your materials and we will help you tie some flies. If you don’t have a vise, or tools, or materials…we will provide them free
The last few weeks’ warmup/rain cycles have added some much needed flow to the Manistee. After peaking on January 11th, it is dropping and is in great shape. These bumps in flow should bring us more pushes of fish. Fishing has been pretty darn good the past couple of weeks
(17lbs, 33-Inches of Twisted Crimson Red Steel!)
What makes the Muskegon River such a world-class steelhead river? The fact that any given moment it can produce steelhead of a lifetime over and over again every year!
Not only the size, but the sheer volume / quantity of
It’s time to tie some bugs!
This Saturday, January 10, from 9 am – 12 pm, we’ll be hosting the first of our Free Fly Tying Saturdays! Bring your vise, your tools and your materials and we will help you tie some flies. If you don’t have a vise, or
(Jack with a Muskegon River Silver Bullet!)
I’ve had the great pleasure of knowing Jack ever since he was a young man introducing him to dry fly fishing for trout at such a young age several years ago. Since then, Jack has learned a lot. He’s become such an incredible
Winter came and went, and then it came again! We’ve seen some big air temperature swings in the last few weeks which has opened up some really strong windows of fishing. With water levels up, the streamer fishing has had its moments. Black circus peanuts with some contrasting heads continue
