Gateway to Michigan's finest fly-fishing
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.
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
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
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