November 18, 2024

New Shop Hours! 9am to 5pm daily. (231) 745-3529 for reservations.

Hey guys, once again my apologies for the delay in reporting here. (The same applies about my social media accounts as last time. They stay quite a bit more up-to-date if interested.) I’ve had quite a bit going on

A Report from Deer Camp

Ah, November.  It is the morning before the opening day of the rifle deer season,  a day immortalized in the seasonal hit:  Escanaba in Da Moonlight, which we’ll be watching tonight.    We will be closed tomorrow for Opening Day of rifle, but back open from 9 am – 2

November 11, 2024

Shop Hours 8am – 6pm Daily

It has been a very fun week of guiding the Pere Marquette River for fall steelhead!  Great conditions and fun clients in the boat.  There are fishable numbers of steelhead throughout the river system at this point…covering water is paying off.  We had a

Mid November Fishing Report

The unseasonably mild fall weather continues to make for comfortable fishing. While we have had some rain in the past, the river levels have only experienced moderate increases in levels before dropping back to the low-levels we have had for months. Still, the steelhead have been showing up as they

Rainbow hunt

Last year, Katy and I had a rare chance to fish the hex together.  It was a night that ended, uncharacteristically, in Katy hooking and landing (she has the worst luck on the big ones) a great brown trout that began rising well after we thought the hex were done for. 

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November 4, 2024

Shop Hours are 8am – 6pm Daily

Well, it’s finally November!!!  Fall and winter steelhead fishing is here and happening!  The river is still very low and clear, but it has been raining on and off today.  Plus, the forecast has rain in the area for the next several days,

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