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Muskegon River Fishing Report – May 8, 2022 – Newaygo, Michigan
The Muskegon river is still seeing more fresh steelhead come in from lake Michigan on their annual spawning run. I anticipate the last of them to be coming in this week and they could stick around for a week+.
As for the steelhead, we have all 3 modes going on: fresh fish entering the system daily, actively spawning fish, and dropbacks exiting the system. With these fish you can target them in various ways such as nymphing with both insect patterns and egg patterns. The dropbacks are looking for
As for the steelhead right now you have all 3 modes going on with fresh fish entering the system daily, actively spawning fish, and dropbacks exiting the system. With these fish you can target them in various ways such as nymphing with both insect patterns and egg patterns or with
Wow, we have some fantastic weather lined up for the weekend! If you haven’t been out on the trout streams yet this season, this weekend is a great opportunity to soak up some sun and have some fun on the water.
TROUT FISHING
As you may have guessed, things
It feels like May. And Spring. Finally. Its time to transition from steelhead to trout and take advantage of the streamer fishing and hatches of Mayflies on the local rivers like the upper Manistee, Au Sable and Boardman. The rivers are running full but are clear with temps mostly in
With a very tough start to the steelhead season, it was refreshing to see the bad boys of the river starting to show up. You ask “the bad boys of the river” yes the smallmouth bass. We are in the pre-spawn’s beginning stages, which typically start when the water temperatures
With a very tough start to the steelhead season, it was refreshing to see the bad boys of the river starting to show up. You ask “the bad boys of the river” yes the smallmouth bass. We are in the pre-spawn’s beginning stages, which typically start when the water temperatures
Today — an ultra-bright scorcher of a 60 degree day to my winter-weary skin — the hendricksons finally emerged in an event that was something more than a trickle. Never mind the difficulty I, and others, had in hunting down a rising fish. Some did. Some caught trout. This evening,
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Happy Monday everyone, we hope you had a fun and safe trout opener this weekend. Heading head first into this week and weekend, there should be some really productive fishing happening in the next couple weeks, from the looks of it the weather is going to be really nice