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November is not over….2/3’s in the books and 1/3 left to write. It has been up and down, but mostly up. A couple slower days due to low water/blue skies and/or the fish pushed through where we were that day, however we are getting
It has been gross, wet, cold, windy, gray November-goodness. I had a customer walk into today — on a dead, dead day in the fly shop — and buy two black streamers. He returned a few hours later, declared it the best day ever, held his hands wide — three
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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
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
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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
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
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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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,
(Tom with an absolute bruiser of a Muskegon River Fall Steelhead!)
Here’s Tom from Chicago with a “wall-hanger” of a Muskegon River steelhead! What started out as an introduction to fresh water big game fly fishing quickly turned into a trial by fire as Tom hooked into this mammoth steelhead
(Greg with a massive Muskegon River Brown Trout)
Here’s Greg from Chicago with an absolute beauty of a Muskegon River brown trout.
I’ve said it before and will continue to say it again the brown trout fishing on the Muskegon River is getting better and better every
