Words can’t describe the quality steelhead fishing we experienced with my new Friends from Madison, WI. Two solid days of nothing but 30″+ steelhead, blistering drag screams, double hitters, & two of the biggest rainbow trout I’ve seen in a long time on the Muskegon river. Here’s Bob, Mark, and Paul with some of the… Continue Reading
Oh yeah……catching steelhead on the Muskegon river. It was an absolute pleasure to guide Ed, a professional guitarist from Hillsdale, Mi and Bert from Rodney, Mi for a day of fun slamming some cold hard steel! Here’s a “few” of them from today. post by: Jon Fortuna Continue Reading
Congrats to Jim and his two kids, Karrissa & Hunter who discovered first hand why so many people are drawn to steelhead fish the Muskegon river. I always brace my self when a client says to me….”ok, last cast of the day, lets end it with a fish in the boat.” Well the steelhead gods… Continue Reading
It was my absolute pleasure to guide a two day trip (provided by the Gray Drake Lodge) this past weekend with some newly acquired friends from Boston who honestly made it more fun for me just to watch them in action catching steelhead one after the other here on the Muskegon river. Please meet Gene,… Continue Reading
Special thanks to Matt Supinski owner of the Gray Drake Lodge for allowing me to guide Greg & Jeff from Chicago. When I’m not guiding for my own Fly Fire Guide Service I guide several trips for the Gray Drake Lodge. After several hook-ups including a very, very large double stripe crimson red buck that… Continue Reading
Former Division One center for the University of Wisconsin Hockey team pictured with the best of the day, 31″ 13lb hen. Great job Joe! Notice the lack of arctic winter weather wear on Joe? Today was the first guide trip in five months I actually took my coat off feeling “too warm.” Warmer weather is… Continue Reading
Bright chrome are on the move. Here’s long time Fly Fire customer Scott from Valparaiso, IN with his friends Paul and Tony posed with some of the chrome they caught including Tony’s awesome 14lb, 31″ hen pictured below. Not bad considering this was Tony’s first steelhead ever. Great job guys! Tony’s first steelhead ever…..14 lb.… Continue Reading
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Not only is this a really nice Muskegon river brown, but what really makes this fish very interesting is, I think I caught it three different times in the past three years. Take a look, connect the dots and see what you think. This pic above was taken March, 2014. This pic was taken back… Continue Reading
Over the past 17+ years exclusively fishing the Muskegon river, one thing keeps me coming back and that’s the wide diversity of fish the river system has to offer. Here’s Jeff with some of those great fish. Nice chrome steelhead, fat Muskegon river rainbow trout (not pictured) and an awesome 20″ Muskegon river brown trout.… Continue Reading