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April 10, 2026 Northern Angler Fishing Report
After the big rain events from last week, the rivers are really starting to drop and get into great shape for fishing this weekend. I have been out most of the week and the fishing remains really good with a mix of fresh
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It’s April and it feels like I have been chasing my tail and burning the candle at both ends. However, it feels great and I am extremely thankful for being so busy on and off the river!!!! THANK YOU!!! It’s awesome to see so
After the recent rains our rivers have basically doubled in volume making fishing questionable in regards to safety and ideal fishing conditions. There has been an impressive number of fish in the systems so far this season which should continue once the water drops and clears.
Hey guys, just another quick one from me again. John has been pretty well on top of it lately and put one out on the 29th, but we have had some significant precipitation since then and extra caution should be exercised…
My “guess” would be that we’ll see these
April 3, 2026 Northern Angler Fishing Report
The fishing was really great this week before the big thunderstorm on Tuesday that cut our day short. Wednesday was really good, but cold and Thursday started out with freezing rain and then just a deluge of rain the entire day. The rivers
Spring is here and so are the fish.
Warmer temperatures and a bump in river levels have pushed a lot of fish up the river systems. Most of our rivers have just returned to normal levels or slightly higher than normal depending on where you are at. There is
(Carl with a massive 15 pound Muskegon River walleye)
Every early spring we normally catch some really nice walleye by mistake fishing steelhead during the spring steelhead run because walleye spawn just in front of the steelhead. But in over 30 years fishing the Muskegon river I’ve never seen one
The Manistee River below Tippy Dam is in great shape for spring. Now that the snow from the last apocalypse has almost left, we are still running a bit high at around 3000 and rising after the rain last night and today. As we mentioned in the last report, the
(Chris with a magnificent Muskegon River Steelhead)
Here’s my good friend Chris from Grand Rapids, MI with an absolute monster steelhead! Picture perfect naturally reproduced Muskegon River steelhead! Doesn’t get much better than this. Congrats Chris!
We had to pull up the anchor for this big
(Devin with a hard fighting male Steelhead)
With a 22-degree start this past Saturday morning the only way to heat up quickly is to catch an incredible Muskegon River steelhead at the break of dawn. And Catch it he did. Please meet my good friend Devin from Muskegon Michigan with
