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(Andrew’s Muskegon River Steelhead)
Here’s Andrew from Sacramento California with a hard fighting Muskegon river steelhead.
New steelhead continue to enter the river systems as the daylight shortens with the time change and colder nights mixed with precipitation is finally raising the water levels triggering fresh
Mid-November finds us with fishing conditions that we kind of expect this time of year. The crowds and tree leaves are gone as are the salmon, but steelhead remain in the rivers. Colder temperatures and even some snow brought the water temperatures down as they bounce around in the mid-40s
I’m tying flies. Hairy Drakes, size 10, 1280. Subbing Dirty Bug Yarn for dubbing, ribbing with copper thread, palmered body, parachute post. Modifications? Of course. Two-tone body, with pheasant tail pulled over the back of the fly and held by the aforementioned copper thread. Tails then are pheasant tail instead
Sorry for the delayed report! I have been very busy on and off the river. I have been guiding everyday while in the middle of a home renovation project….so, I have been spread thin. Being on the river feels great everyday and is time well spent! Fishing has been challenging
(Liam with his very first Muskegon River steelhead on a fly rod)
Please meet my new friends Liam and his Dad (John) from New Lenox, IL celebrating in style Liam’s first ever Muskegon River steelhead taken with a fly rod!
(Liam holding his first ever Muskegon River steelhead)
Liam’s holding
It’s easy to feel it unfair that the days get shorter in the fall, but really it’s just motivation. I don’t do a lot of fishing these two weeks of peak trout spawn. I enjoy hunting in the woods and also working around the house and the shorter days mean
It’s November and with lots of leaves off of the trees, it feels and looks like it. Steelhead fishing is our primary focus right now. We finally got some rain a bit ago and the levels have come and gone, and we continue to have low water levels that are
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8K0MStezyk #fishing #flyfishing #video Another installment of Smallmouth Bass 2025 episode 6. After a bunch of recent spring storms with torrential rains, we thought we we’d be in trouble with water levels. We to travel a little further but pivoted to an area that didn’t get as much moisture and
Hey guys, per usual, it’s been a minute, and I don’t have much of an excuse other than I’ve simply been trying to hold out for a few more Steelhead photos… (Fact is, most people don’t actually read these reports, they just look for recent photos. ) Problem is, while
