Picture Perfect

Wow, quite a day! Light-winds and a steady fluffy snowfall along with a near perfect flow provided fabulous conditions to swing flies.  Last year some

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Ol-man who?

Our guides were frozen, our faces raw, toes a tad bit chilly–you’d think we’d waive the flag of surrender? Nope, not Don and Wayne! With

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Why we swing

We certainly don’t choose to swing flies off the two-hander because its the simplest way to catch a steelhead. We choose to swing flies simply

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Never stop learning

I knew today was going to be a great day when I met George in person this morning at the lodge. We quickly got the

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Art does it again

Art returned for his second ever fall steelhead trip today. A year ago he had just learned to fly fish and wanted to try swinging

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Renewal

Finally, finally, today my best fishing buddy, Don Graham, and I were able to spend some time on the Muskegon River fly fishing for steelhead.

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Getting back to normal

Conditions are headed back to normal after some unseasonally high-water from the past weekends storm. It will still likely take another day or so to

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What a Delight…

What a delight it is to host guests who respect our beloved steelhead and Muskegon River fishery.  Gary, an Ohioan who fly fishes across the

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And Even Mo’ Wind

Don’t even know how to begin to describe the conditions for today. With leftover wind from last night’s, now confirmed, tornado just south of the

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MO’ wind

Just another windy day on the Muskegon–sounds like a broken record! Seriously, I might actually buy into this whole wind energy thing if this trend

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