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Happy Thanksgiving! Best wishes to all of you for a great and safe holiday.
Every year — or maybe every season — I try new stuff. A few years ago it was upstream streamer fishing (very, very effective…but a lot of work). Sight fishing is one of my favorites, but…it’s
Rainy days and low water?
We’ve had a lot of damp rainy days the last couple weeks, but really haven’t seen enough rain to raise our rivers up. The good news is that we’re getting just enough to keep a steady trickle of fish coming
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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
I sent out a text to the crew on Thursday: “Anyone want to fish tomorrow?” All I got back was “I wish, man” or “I’ll be tied up with work”. I’d be flying solo. I don’t mind fishing from the boat by myself from time-to-time. It can be very
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.