Here’s Ed from Hillsdale, Michigan with a beautiful Muskegon river naturally produced brown trout. Here’s Gary from Sparta, Michigan with an awesome 19-inch Muskegon river rainbow trout. With all the numbers of fresh king salmon migrating up the river system the tour fishing has been incredible. Active trout feeding on the spawning salmon eggs is… Continue Reading
Here’s Calvin from Madison, WI with an absolute brute of a Muskegon River king salmon! Fresh king salmon continue to enter the river system despite the late start due to low water and excessive heat. So good to report I haven’t seen numbers of salmon like this in a very long time on the Muskegon.… 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
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 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
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
Every once in a while the Mighty MO (Muskegon River) flexes its muscle and proves what a World-Class fishery it really is and Ed’s beautiful brown trout is the ultimate example of just how amazing of a trout stream the Muskegon River really is! Please meet my great friend Ed from Hillsdale, MI with what… Continue Reading
Here’s Calvin from Madison, WI with an absolute bruiser of a Muskegon river steelhead that smashed his fly on the swing! Great job Calvin! This one was definitely worth a photo! Here’s Dan with late season crystal chrome hen that just came up with the recent rain. Here’s Calvin with another big steelhead worthy of… Continue Reading
Here’s my great friend Jeff from Chicago with an absolute bull of a Muskegon River steelhead! Measuring just over 32-inches and 17lbs on the Boga Grips, Jeff’s steelhead put up an incredible fight bringing Jeff into his backing on the fly rod in seconds! Here’s Jeff’s guest Bob getting the hang of running the drift… Continue Reading
Here’s my great friend Jeff from Jenison, MI with an absolutely beautiful crystal chrome Muskegon River steelhead. Here’s Jeff’s son Bryce with a scrappy little buck that didn’t want to come to the net or get his picture taken. Here’s Jeff bringing another nice steelhead to the boat on a peaceful afternoon half day trip… Continue Reading