Here’s Ed from Hillsdale, MI with an exceptional 22″ Muskegon river brown trout. This river brown struck Ed’s fly like a lightning bolt and fought like a king salmon with a heck of a pull from the start. Was such a great surprise to see this wall-hanger brown come to the net! Congrats Ed! Incredible… Continue Reading
Here’s Tim from Chicago with a crystal chrome Muskegon river steelhead. Nothing beats that first tug on the fly rod and especially when it’s a Muskegon river fall steelhead ripping your fly reel into its backing in seconds! Congrats on a beautiful fall steelhead Tim! Steelhead continue to enter the river system as the water… Continue Reading
The fall steelhead run always start with the skippers; the juvenile steelhead that migrate first up the river system quickly followed by the adult steelhead. Landing skippers is the first indication the fall steelhead run is about to happen. Here’s Brian from Cincinnati, OH with a bright chrome “skipper” steelhead from the Muskegon river. We’re… Continue Reading
Here’s Josh from Kentwood, MI with a massive king from the Muskegon river that smashed his swung fly through the deep pool on the retrieve. If you’ve never experienced fighting these king salmon in the deep pools when they have all their energy fresh from Lake Michigan; you’ve got to give it a try. To… Continue Reading
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
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
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
Here’s my long time friend Greg from Rockford, MI with a very aggressive brown trout that absolutely smashed his Drake pattern dry fly just before total darkness of the night set in. We’ve talked about it before; timing the rises and how trout start feeding heavier as the sun goes down. Well that’s exactly what… Continue Reading
Here he is! The man, the myth, the legend! Bert from Rodney, MI holding a beautiful Muskegon river brown trout that absolutely smashed a dry fly! What makes dry fly fishing for trout on the Muskegon so much fun? It’s targeting and timing the rises! More times than not, trout will go into a feeding… Continue Reading
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