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The Manistee River below Tippy Dam is in great shape for spring. Now that the snow from the last apocalypse has almost left, we are still running a bit high at around 3000 and rising after the rain last night and today. As we mentioned in the last report, the
(Chris with a magnificent Muskegon River Steelhead)
Here’s my good friend Chris from Grand Rapids, MI with an absolute monster steelhead! Picture perfect naturally reproduced Muskegon River steelhead! Doesn’t get much better than this. Congrats Chris!
We had to pull up the anchor for this big
(Devin with a hard fighting male Steelhead)
With a 22-degree start this past Saturday morning the only way to heat up quickly is to catch an incredible Muskegon River steelhead at the break of dawn. And Catch it he did. Please meet my good friend Devin from Muskegon Michigan with
The water levels on the Manistee and Betsie Rivers have been dropping after some high water which encouraged more fish to come up from Lake Michigan. Fishing has been good with egg patterns and a solid nymph bite.
So yeah… That was a doozy of a winter indeed, but certainly more normal than the 6 before it. It fell on us in late November, and save a few melts and lately a few milder days, we have had us a Real Michigan Winter. Water table did need it
March 27, 2026 Northern Angler Fishing Report
This week we have seen some great fishing on the Big Manistee River and I expect things to really get going this next week with the forecast of warmer temperatures and a more spring-like weather pattern. The snow is starting to melt and
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Northern Michigan’s rivers have a way of getting under your skin. The whisper of the Jordan at dawn, the deep green bends of the Manistee, the electric swirl of a rising brown on the Au Sable
The Manistee below Tippy Dam is in great shape for spring. We are running a bit high at around 3100 and the river has a really nice stain to it. The recent and sustained higher flows have brought in a nice push of steelhead that are in a variety of
Steelhead, Trout & Seasonal Conditions Update
Just when we thought winter was behind us—WHAM! Mother Nature delivered a late-season sucker punch across Northern Michigan. We’ve been busy shoveling and moving snow, but the upside
As we fluctuate between Winter and Spring, steelhead fishing continues. The water levels of local rivers are full and after an extreme snow storm the past few days, we anticipate some additional run-off, it’s just a matter of how quick the snow melts.
