Please meet my hometown friend Greg from Rockford, MI with a bruiser of a Muskegon river steelhead! Nice job Greg!! Not to be outdone by Dad, here’s Greg’s son Ben with a very fresh, very chrome hen from the Muskegon. Greg with a hard fighting buck that hit at the end of his swing when… Continue Reading
Here’s Tristan from Des Moines, IA with a beautiful Muskegon River brown trout. The brown trout fishing on the Muskegon has been exceptionally good the past couple years and only seems to get better! Notice the beautiful translucent blue on the gill plate of Tristan’s river brown. Brown trout are the only fish species to… 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
Here’s Mike with his king salmon taken on the swing in a deep pool staging area. Mike is pictured along with John/dad on the right and friend Dave on the left. King salmon start to enter the Muskegon river in mid September. As they migrate up the river system, the kings seek and group up… 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 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 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
Here’s my new friend Mike from Rockford, MI wet wadding in style with a nice Muskegon river brown trout that smashed his dry fly! Mike with a very healthy Muskegon river rainbow trout gorging on flies top water struck Mike’s dry fly with a vengeance! Great hook-set Mike! Dry fly fishing for trout has been… 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
You never forget your first steelhead on a fly rod and especially when your first just happens to be 34-inches of twisted crimson red steel tipping the Boga grips at 19 pounds! Congrats Ethan! Well done. Incredible fight! Okay. So, you want to learn steelhead fishing with a fly rod? Cast here, tight line going… Continue Reading