Here’s a very healthy beautiful chrome hen from the Muskegon River The spring steelhead run grows closer on the Muskegon river despite the up and down weather patterns from the past few weeks. High flows have dissipated from 5000/4500 cfs to the current levels of 3200. The higher water has brought more numbers of steelhead up… Continue Reading
Here’s Dave, his wife Corinne and his son Harry from Albion, MI who decided to take a winter steelhead trip as a getaway for his son’s return from the Navy. It’s pretty common for me to have clients who have never steelhead fished before. But, it’s very uncommon for these same clients to land every… Continue Reading
With a few minutes to do some scouting today before a guide trip, had a great opportunity at three steelhead and landing two in the boat after fishing one hole. Since early October steelhead fishing on the Muskegon River this fall has been very strong with several strikes through out the day. Although no one can… Continue Reading
Here’s Curtis from New Orleans with an awesome 24″ rainbow trout in the transition stage of becoming a steelhead. Great fish Curtis! Not to be outdone, here’s Jim from Chicago with a very healthy female king salmon from his guided trip yesterday. Curtis pictured with his first ever king salmon from the Muskegon river in… Continue Reading
Here’s todd from Indiana with a really nice king salmon from his half day trip yesterday. I think Todd will agree; it’s one thing to hook one of these monster king salmon, it’s by far another thing to land them. These kings will bring you into your backing in seconds. The pure power these fish… Continue Reading
Here’s Joe from Saint Louis, MO with an outstanding 40”, 27 pound king salmon. Believe it or not, this was the smallest one of the day. The king salmon that are here are absolutely giants. Joe, Jerry, and John learned first hand the Muskegon river king salmon are running on the large size this year.… Continue Reading
Here’s John from Indiana with some great opportunities at some awesome king salmon on the Muskegon river. This was one of them, well earned! Water levels are normal for this time of year. Rain and overcast skies any time soon would be a bonus. The high bright sun mixed with warm water temperatures didn’t help… Continue Reading
The King Salmon have started to gang up in the deep pools. These warm water temps have finally started to drop below the 70 degree point the past few days giving way for more king salmon to migrate up the river system. Here’s Charlie from New York with a hard fighting king. Next weeks weather… Continue Reading
Fall is an absolutely beautiful time of year to fish the Muskegon river here in Michigan. Leaves are changing color, air and water temps are transitioning, and trout fishing is picking up as the caddis fly hatch starts to explode. With it comes the best part of all as the yearly migration of king salmon and fall steelhead… Continue Reading
Team Byron with an outstanding half day trip bringing several fresh chrome steelhead and large rainbow trout to the net today. Here’s a few of them. Water levels have declined to 3500 cfs with a light stain. Fresh steelhead are on the move as water temps approached 39 degrees today. Evidence of gravel activity continues… Continue Reading