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(Nick with a beautiful Muskegon River steelhead)
Here’s my great friend Nick from Chicago with the best of the day! A hard fighting beautiful 16lb buck from the Muskegon River.
Nick’s mature double stripe buck! New steelhead continue to enter the river systems as the daylight
It’s freezing cold and hence there isn’t much to report when it comes to fishing. There’ll be a few “warm” days in the near future and I aim to make the most of at least a few of them. I try to fish within a day or two of the
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.
Happy Thanksgiving! Christmas is just around the corner so it’s that time again!! As our way of saying thank you to all of you we are offering our Holiday Special (Until December 24, 2025) of 20% off Gift Certificates!!!! (It’s the perfect gift for that angler in your life or,
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
