Steelhead fishing is waning and it was a nice change of pace to strip streamers for river browns today. Water conditions are ideal while the river temperature remains a little cold yet. Slow strips near cover produced some great opportunities. Picturede is Kris with a...
Continuing the “former Jenison High School students theme,” I recently guided Scott Deemter, (the bearded one), who was a student in my American Literature class, a scant few years ago…. With him was John Meyers, who, with his wife Karen, are dear friends of my...
Former Jenison Public High School student of mine, Kevin Shrock, with his son-in-law, Ian, pose the first of numerous steelhead they hooked and brought to hand today. Occasionally, fly fishing for steelhead on Michigan's Muskegon River can be so good that the customers take a...
The Kehl group has been with us for the past few days. The steelhead were very cooperative for the guys which made up for our continued poor weather. The Muskegon River bumped up a little today, but with generally (hopefully) dry weather forecasted we’ll see...
After weeks of high river flows and more wind than I ever care to deal with again, today all the steelhead stars aligned for a beautiful morning of spring steelhead fly fishing. Morning only because Jeff and his nephew suggested that we head back to...
This hen steelhead, fresh upriver from Lake Michigan, posing here with longtime friend and customer, Pat, brightened our fly fishing morning on Michigan’s Muskegon River today. Due to extraordinarily high river flows of late, now abated, fly fishing has been challenging since the bulk of...
Probably the last steelhead trip for Kris until fall 22’. Steelhead numbers have dropped significantly as the water has receded from a sustained period of high run-off. In the big picture this security from the high water and new regulations to reduce the spring harvest...
I sure hope we saw the last of the snow until next winter today on the river! I’m truly over it at this point. Windy, snowy, and cold pretty much was the flavor of the day. Dropping water seemed to have the steelhead on the...
Dear friend, former colleague, and now retired Jenison Pubic Schools superintendent, Tom TenBrink, launched one cast and met this Muskegon River buck. Of course, I had to tease him about his magnifying it’s size by nearly having it kiss my camera phone! Steelhead are coursing the...
The Muskegon had begun to fall the last few days until more heavy rain blanketed the State. This rain was quite warm and will aid in warming and raising the river further. Steelhead fishing was decent for us yesterday until the heavy rain and fog...