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July 11, 2024 Northern Angler Fishing Report
July is here and we are through with the Hex hatch, still seeing trout looking up only this time of year. Time for attractor patterns, ants, beetles, hoppers and really anything foam! Super fun time of year to get out
There is a little patch of the South Branch that I consider something like my home water. It’s not my favorite stretch, but I love it. As teenagers we used to do a lot of wades — long point-to-point wades, alternating who was in the lead. Inevitably such wades, often
After the often one-dimensionality of the spring, July can feel a bit like a buffet. There is some kind of fly fishing to be had somewhere all the time, often two or three kinds, each their own mini-event. This week it was tricos on the North Branch, olives on the
It’s also been great to chuck streamers as the bite has been fantastic with patterns like DNDs, Circus peanuts, zoo cougars, and triple-doubles. These larger flies, paired with sinking lines, seem to be enticing the trout effectively under these conditions.
It’s also been great to chuck streamers as the bite has been fantastic with patterns like DNDs, Circus peanuts, zoo cougars, and triple-doubles. These larger flies, paired with sinking lines, seem to be enticing the trout effectively under these conditions.
The Hex flies have mostly finished a really heavy hatch period this year on the local rivers including the Manistee. This steady stream of bugs has left the trout fat and happy and like many of us after Thanksgiving dinner – second guessing that last serving. The rivers are in
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Hey guys, just a quick update before the weekend… It’s been a bit of a rollercoaster ride around here this past week or so between water temps that were too high to safely catch and release trout without undue stress thru most of the river and then, some high water…
So by way of a hex recap: A lot of big fish were caught, I heard of no fistfights or anything like that, no one backed their truck into the river, piles of fly fishing items were lost and found and many have been returned. The bugs started once around
The warm weather of last week made for some hot and heavy hex fly action on local rivers that has tapered off due to cooler (not cool) temps and significant rainfall. While water temperatures in rivers like the Manistee and Au Sable were reaching the high 60s and in some