Category Archives: Dry fly trout fishing Muskegon river

Beautiful Fall Colors Only Big Muskegon River Browns Can Produce!

Beautiful Fall Colors Only Big Muskegon River Browns Can Produce!

Please meet my new friends from west Michigan; Lisa on the right and her sister Linda holding the holy grail of the Muskegon river, a beautiful 19-inch brown trout sporting his beautiful fall colors!  And if I were to tell you Linda hooked, fought, and landed this big brown all from the comfort of the… Continue Reading

Bow’s That Go Bump In The Night!

Bow’s That Go Bump In The Night!

It’s amazing how the Muskegon river magically transforms itself leading into the evening hours.  What looks like flat water with no trout surface activity or bugs during the day all the sudden explodes into bugs everywhere with relentless trout rising smashing the surface in a literal feeding frenzy as the sun lowers beneath the tree… Continue Reading

It’s Time For Dries On The Fly!

It’s Time For Dries On The Fly!

It’s starting to heat up with dry fly fishing on the Muskegon river.  This cold start to late spring / early summer is finally over and it’s starting to warm up while the big browns and rainbow trout are starting to look up now more than ever. As the red tail sucker spawn comes to… Continue Reading

Flying High On Dries Again!

Flying High On Dries Again!

Absolutely love this time of year when the big game fly rods get changed up for the beloved 9 foot 5 weight dry fly rods.  This beautiful Muskegon river brown trout absolutely smashed my cinnamon caddis dry fly.  Nothing beats that first take top water from a big brown gorging in it’s feeding lane when… Continue Reading

Book Your Fall Fishing Trip Now On The Muskegon River!

Book Your Fall Fishing Trip Now On The Muskegon River!

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

Brown Trout On The Fly!

Brown Trout On The Fly!

Here’s Connor from northern California with a nice brown trout that absolutely smashed a streamer pattern during the start of a rain shower. Connor with another beautiful brown trout during the rain.  Although the mid-afternoon rain shower wasn’t very pleasant to fish through; it turned the bite on like crazy with these brown trout going… Continue Reading

Fall Caddis Hatch Heats Up On The Muskegon!

Fall Caddis Hatch Heats Up On The Muskegon!

Here’s Bill from Allegan, MI with some beautiful brown trout taken on caddis dry flies. This recent abnormal warm front has triggered massive caddis fly hatches in the upper stretches of the river sending large size brown trout into a feeding frenzy. Here’s Bill with another large size river brown that smashed his caddis dry… Continue Reading

Fall Caddis Hatch On Fire!

Fall Caddis Hatch On Fire!

Here’s Lucas from Detroit with a beautiful football size Muskegon river brown trout that smashed his caddis dry fly. The caddis hatch on the upper stretches of the Muskegon river have been on fire ever since early September. Lucas landed this beautiful 18-inch football sized brown on a caddis dry fly and had other opportunities… Continue Reading

Complete Your Drift With Dry Flies For Trout!

Complete Your Drift With Dry Flies For Trout!

Here’s a beautiful Muskegon river brown trout that absolutely smashed my caddis dry fly submerged under the water column on the swing.  This brown trout struck my dry fly submerged under the water column just as my fly line straightened out behind me and I started to retrieve the fly at the terminal end of… Continue Reading

Make The Trout See Your Fly Fall!

Make The Trout See Your Fly Fall!

Here’s a gorgeously colored Muskegon river brown trout that absolutely smashed my new Gray Drake dry fly pattern as it gently fell to the water just in front of his face in his feeding lane. In the last blog we discussed how to target rising trout and time their intervals between rises to improve your… Continue Reading