(Muskegon River Brown Trout) More times than not hooking big trout with dry flies is won or lost by timing the rise. Trout don’t like to waste a lot of energy when feeding and with an over abundance of spent drakes floating down stream these browns position themselves in their specific feeding lane and just… Continue Reading
(Trevor’s Muskegon River Brown) Here’s Trevor from Arizona with a beautiful Muskegon River brown trout that smashed a dry fly. Dry flies have been the top producer past days of trips. Drakes and caddis patterns have taken center stage. Trout are rising throughout the river system with some pockets producing better than others. Water levels… Continue Reading
Here’s Nick from Chicago with what started out as a first time dry fly casting instructional course and turned into a dry fly casting clinic put on by Nick as he picked up the fly casting quickly with no problem and was rewarded with this nice rainbow trout that absolutely smashed his dry fly. Great… Continue Reading
(Muskegon River Brown Trout) Finally starting to get more consistency with the dry fly fishing on the Muskegon. This nice brown pictured above smashed a gray drake dry fly pattern and is a prime example of the trout starting to “look up” as the water levels start to drop. This brown is pictured with my… Continue Reading
Here’s John from Chicago with a nice brown that took a salmon fry pattern on the swing. Trout season is off to high water start! 4,000 cfs and rising was the theme of the day as the high flows on the Muskegon just wont stop. These high flows are good for the wet flies, but… Continue Reading
(Seth with a picture perfect late season steelhead) Here’s Seth from England with some late season steelhead from the Muskegon River. Pockets of steelhead still remain but with a high flow and slightly stained water the stage is being set for the perfect transition from the steelhead to trout fishing in the next few days.… Continue Reading
Here’s Greg with a massive late season steelhead from the Muskegon River. No to be out done here’s Bert with another big late season steelhead. Greg with a beautiful hen from the Muskegon. Best of the day! Here’s Bert with a very fresh “picture perfect” late May steelhead. Go with the flow was the word… Continue Reading
Here’s Todd from Indiana with an absolute brute chrome steelhead from the Muskegon River. The recent high waters have brought up a fresh push of steelhead found in select pockets of the river. Here’s Todd with a custom jaw structured steelhead unique to the Muskegon River. Here’s Todd with another “crystal chrome” steelhead. Todd posing… Continue Reading
Top photo from right to left is John and Bert finishing up the second day of a guided two-day fishing trip with another excellent round of steelhead brought to the boat. With every new push of water comes another push of fresh steelhead including some bright chrome hens pictured above. There’s no shortage of water… Continue Reading
From left to right here’s John, Bert, and Greg with some outstanding steelhead from day one of a two-day spring steelhead fishing trip on the Muskegon river. Pictured top is John’s massive 34″ buck that crossed the river four times looking for every log jam in the river to break John off. After a drag… Continue Reading