Dry fly fishing for trout has been on fire past few weeks with caddis, cahills, blue wing olives, and drake hatches taking center stage. The low clear water is causing the trout to look up more than ever as the red tail sucker spawn has come to an end. The hotter air temps are raising… Continue Reading
Here’s my brother Ben from LaCrosse, WI with an absolute monster, 24″ Muskegon river brown trout. Couldn’t have happened to a better person. Ben has fished the Driftless area of Wisconsin for years and landed some beautiful brown and rainbow trout over the years but told me, “nothing like this brown!” Congrats Ben! So happy… Continue Reading
Here’s John from Chicago again with yet another fall jewel from the Muskegon river, the beautifully fall colored Muskegon river brown trout! Congrats on the brown John! John’s beautifully colored brown trout was gorging on eggs behind the salmon beds. Not uncommon to hook massive browns and rainbow trout behind the salmon beds gorging on… Continue Reading
Here’s Kenneth from the east side of the state with an absolutely incredible colored Muskegon river brown trout. Absolutely incredible the colors on these Muskegon river brown trout. Check out the amber red throughout the flank. Not uncommon to hook massive browns and rainbow trout behind the salmon beds gorging on displaced salmon eggs. Kenneth’s… Continue Reading
Fall is an absolutely beautiful time of year to fish the Muskegon river here in Michigan. The annual migration of king salmon start to enter the river system and along with it the fall steelhead and lake run browns follow suite up river in search of salmon roe discharged from actively spawning king salmon. Trout… Continue Reading
Here’s John from Chicago with a beautiful Muskegon river brown trout taken with a dry fly. Great afternoon of fishing with some really nice brown trout brought to the boat on dry flies including two very large brown trout that just didn’t want their picture taken. Nothing better than this time of year fly fishing… Continue Reading
Muskegon river brown trout taken on a dry fly. Nothing better than this time of year fly fishing the Muskegon river during the best dry fly fishing for trout of the year. Caddis, Cahills, and Gray Drakes are present throughout the river system. Mid-60 degree water temps and perfect flows are making way for some… Continue Reading
Here’s Kenneth’s long brown taken with his beautiful hand made bamboo fly rod he made this past winter. Nothing better than this time of year fly fishing the Muskegon river during the best dry fly fishing for trout of the year. Caddis, Cahills, and Gray Drakes are present throughout the river system. 60 degree water… Continue Reading
Muskegon river brown trout taken on a dry fly. Nothing better than this time of year fly fishing the Muskegon river during the best dry fly fishing for trout of the year. Check out the beautiful translucent blue gill plate on this brown. This translucent blue gill plate is a unique feature found only on… Continue Reading
Muskegon river brown trout taken on a dry fly. Nothing better than this time of year fly fishing the Muskegon river during the best dry fly fishing for trout of the year. Caddis, Cahills, and Gray Drakes are present throughout the river system. 60 degree water temps and perfect flows are making way for some… Continue Reading