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Winter has settled into northern Michigan, and fishing across the Grand Traverse region has slowed accordingly. Cold air, skim ice in the mornings, and short daylight windows have limited activity, but for anglers willing to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpCEPq0GmAA #fishing #flyfishing #smallmouthbass SMB2025E7: Floating a Michigan river, mid Spring, hooking a pile of SmallMouth Bass. We fished a stretch of river we normally hold off fishing until mid summer. Water levels were up just a bit from normal and clarity was a little off as well. Perfect for
Happy Thanksgiving!
I tried to shrug off an achy back today with a little fishing but managed, on reaching for my net to land the rainbow at the top of the report, to hurt my back even further. No Turkey Trout tomorrow! But a bright fall rainbow is worth it.
Doesn’t get much more exciting for me to experience the Mighty MO in it’s true form flexing its muscle producing incredible brown trout like this one. Words can’t explain the pure gratitude I have toward the Muskegon to have access to such a world class trout
(Alden with his first ever Muskegon River steelhead)
Here’s Alden with his very first absolutely beautiful crystal chrome Muskegon River steelhead! Congrats Alden!
New steelhead continue to enter the river systems as the daylight shortens with the time change and colder nights mixed with precipitation is
I’ve been so busy guiding this fall (which I’m totally grateful for; thank you to all the clients that trusted me with your fall fishing on the Muskegon river this season). I finally had the chance to put a line in the water myself since late August.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7-jrTCAPLs #steelhead #flyfishing #fishing Any fishing is great but there’s something different and special about swinging flies for Fall steelhead. The “take, pluck, grab, pull, yank”, whatever you want to call it is like no other in fishing. It’s a lightening bolt of electricity when a steelhead grabs your fly
Boardman River
The Boardman River continues to fish well for salmon, and there have been scattered reports of a few steelhead showing up. Bright orange and pink egg patterns have been most effective during the early morning hours, while more subtle “dead egg” colors are producing better results later in the
This week we have experienced some days of great early steelhead season with some extremely hot fish humbling the angler. There are still fresh salmon coming in early in the week. We saw big pushes of fresh coho salmon coming in the big Manistee and I hear there are still
After a hunting hiatus, it felt wonderful to be on an empty, beautiful river. My fishing stuff was in disarray and time was short before school pick-up, but Katy and I snuck in a quickt float. It was one of those clammy November days. The river was — is —
