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Shifting gears!!!
My spring steelhead season has finished up and we are prepping for the spring and summer om the big water. The Hattrick will be splashed this week and we will get the spring cleaning and prep done on it in the coming days. Tackle prep, cleaning and re-spooling
Spring has finally arrived!!!!
We are now past our spring steelhead season, and booking spring and summer river trips. We offer trips for both trout and smallmouth on the Muskegon river. Both with fly tackle and ultra-light spinning gear. The Muskegon has some pretty good hatches in May and June
Well…we finally crossed the season finish line for steelhead. It was a tough season going all the way back to October of 2023. If I had to say…the best fishing was from late January through the first week of March, with February being the best by far…this is mostly due
Jeff with a Massive Muskegon River Steelhead!)
Here’s one of the best from Western Michigan, please meet Jeff with what can only be described as a very large Muskegon river steelhead! Tipping the bogas over 19lb’s and 35-inches of twisted chrome steel. Jeff not only got this cow to feed,
(Bob with an absolute beauty Muskegon River Steelhead!)
Here’s my great friend Bob from Madison, WI with an absolute beauty of a Muskegon river steelhead!
I give Bob all the credit for sticking it out during one of the toughest steelhead runs experienced in a long
(Greg with a massive Muskegon river steelhead!)
Please meet my hometown friend Greg from Rockford, MI with a bruiser of a Muskegon river steelhead! Nice job Greg!!
Not to be outdone by Dad, here’s Greg’s son Ben with a very fresh, very chrome hen
(Ben with a monster Muskegon river steelhead!)
Here’s my brother Ben from La Cresent, Minnesota with a monstrous chromed out steelhead from the Muskegon river.
(Ben with a matching monster buck from the Muskegon)
Ben with a matching monstrous buck from the Muskegon. Very likely the “alpha male” that was
(Greg with a double strip buck)
Here’s Greg from Big Rapids, MI with a beautiful double stripe buck Muskegon river steelhead.
(Greg with a big rainbow trout)
Greg with a large rainbow trout from the Muskegon.
(Greg with another double stripe buck)
Greg with another big double stripe buck.
(Jeff with a crystal chrome Muskegon river steelhead)
Here’s Jeff from Chicago with a chrome steelhead so bright he had to wear sunglasses!
(Jeff with a hard fighting buck!)
Jeff with a hard fighting buck that took him into the backing on his fly reel in seconds!
(Todd with a well earned Muskegon River Steelhead)
Please meet my great friend Todd from Pueblo, Colorado with an absolute “bull in a china cabinet” hell of a steelhead taken out of a log jam on the Muskegon river with his fly rod.
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