Category Archives: Muskegon river rainbow trout

May Your Holidays Be Filled with Big Bows & Killer Browns! Happy Holidays from Fly Fire!!

May Your Holidays Be Filled with Big Bows & Killer Browns!  Happy Holidays from Fly Fire!!

Here’s Jim from Ft. Wayne, IN with a big & beautiful naturally reproduced Muskegon river rainbow trout! Jim with one of several nice brown trout brought to the boat throughout the day.  From the beginning of September to now, the trout fishing on the Muskegon river has been incredible.  Never seen so many big trout… Continue Reading

Happy Thanks-Chrome-Giving!

Happy Thanks-Chrome-Giving!

Jason from Rockford, MI with an absolutely gorgeous chromed out Muskegon river steelhead! Here’s Nathan from Rockford, MI finding out first hand fishing for steelhead ain’t always easy. But, patience, perseverance, running the correct drift, and setting the hook can finally pay off in the quest for chrome! What started out slow, quickly began to… Continue Reading

Fall Fishing Charters On The Muskegon River

Fall Fishing Charters On The Muskegon River

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

Dry Flying For Bows & Browns!

Dry Flying For Bows & Browns!

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

Let It Rain!

Let It Rain!

From Chicago pictured left to right here’s Jeff, Brian, and Jim helping Brian hold his very first Muskegon river steelhead which just happened to be a 17lb double stripe buck!  Great job Brian.  Welcome to my addiction! Pictures don’t do this steelhead justice.  Here’s Jeff holding his 37-Inch, 20lb Muskegon river steelhead that nearly pulled… Continue Reading

Fall Fishing On The Muskegon River!

Fall Fishing On The Muskegon River!

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

Time To Shine!

Time To Shine!

Meet the new young fly fishing prodigy from Chicago.  Here’s Kyra holding her first ever steelhead hooked, fought, and landed all by herself with a fly rod.  Kyra’s first ever big Buck just happened to tip the scale at 30-inches and 16lbs.  Great job Kyra!!  Welcome to the steelhead club! Not to be outdone here’s… Continue Reading

Bad To The Bow!

Bad To The Bow!

Here’s Bert with one of the largest, if not the largest 24″ native rainbow trout from the Muskegon river.  Congrats on such a one in a million rainbow Bert! This rainbow was so big (two feet long!) I truly thought it was a steelhead.  In 20+ years guiding exclusively on the Muskegon river all year… Continue Reading