Category: Fishing Reports

The Trout Journal | Drakes | S2 E2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mR6XEPf4hA Fly Fishing Upper Peninsula Mi Dark Waters Fly Fishing Shop, is located in upper peninsula MI, and offers remote Fly Fishing Guide Services in the heart of the U.P. To experience scenic, secluded, fly fishing that you’ll always remember, contact us today! [email protected] website: https://www.darkwatersflyshop.com​ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DarkWatersFl​… instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dark_waters​…

January 22, 2025

Hey guys, long time… I haven’t posted a whole lot here lately as almost all of my time has been spent unapologetically hibernating at home with my wife and pups while enjoying a “full reset” of sorts before tackling what is sure to be an epic, awesome and exciting spring,

Froze Over

For about four minutes on Monday, a man fished the river.  I’d say the air temperature was around 2 degrees.  He fished in front of the lodge, ice floes splitting around him, before he abandoned the pursuit.  It was something to do.  Lately, we are all very much in need

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DAM: When do we let go?

As we become more aware of outdated dams and the cost of maintenance versus benefits, we begin to realize that some 80 to 120-year-old structures no longer produce the energy output they once did to outweigh environmental concerns. Many dams, along with highways, were built/rebuilt post WWI because we had

January 20th 2025

Well if you haven’t figured it out yet, winter is here. Most of our rivers have locked up in the last few weeks, which can be good or bad depending how you look at it. 

Locked up rivers means less ice and slush mix floating down the river that poses

Small Creek Fishing Bust to Bonkers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZKzZo_LR4g #fishing #flyfishing #trout Join us as we explore a small creek in search of trout. What starts off slow crazy slow fishing quickly turns into a wild day of catching. Didn’t catch anything big but the numbers offset the lack of size. Crazy how things can go from nothing

A Fly Tying Update

It is…winter.  Today’s high should push around 12 degrees and there isn’t a day above freezing in sight.  Luckily, fly fishing comes armed with a sub-hobby: fly-tying.  We have been cranking some bugs.  The guides are tying for their trips.  The commercial tyers are filling the list of orders we

The Trout Journal | Keep the Lie Alive | Fly fishing Upper Peninsula MI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCNWWgQyD68 Season 2 Episode 1 of The Trout Journal Future episodes will follow. Dark Waters Fly Shop is located in Iron River, MI in the Upper Peninsula. Feel free to to check out our website, darkwatersflyshop.com or our instagram account. We’d love to get you on the water. -Seth

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