Wow, it's getting scary: I launch the boat, help the customers into the boat; and pull away from the landing. OK, so what's the big deal? Uh, generally, it's been found that it's a good idea to drive the truck and trailer up out of...
Good friend and first time fly fisher Lynn just kept repeating this phrase over and over again as she and her husband Steve marveled at the fall splendor and grandeur of the Muskegon River. Temps in the high 70's, the lightest brush of a breeze,...
Dad Don and son Tony spent the day chasing Chinook salmon with the fly rods today. After a big evening in the Muskegon River Lodge with four other related dads and sons, the guys were eager to have at some Michigan salmon fly fishing. No...
As one western Michigan fly fishing season wanes, another seizes center stage. So it was as Darryl and Pete joined me for a lower Muskegon River bass float earlier this week—a trip that took us mile after delightful mile down the river as the guys...
Captain Don fired these pics and more of smallies coming to his boat on poppers today. Chunky, well conditioned smallmouth that rip on 6 wt rods are the order of the day. In short, quite a show. We anticipate this fishery holding up well into...
Can't recall seeing a Pure Michigan ad featuring Michigan's wonderful fly fishing, but, man, had the PM people been on the Muskegon today with Captain Don and me, they would surely have had to give it some thought! Absolutely gorgeous day: bright skies, low...
Captain Don and I were rockin' today. And, no, the chairs with the funny bottoms weren't creaking; and no, we didn't lose count of the bass we landed because our synapses are smoked from what some tell us are our advancing years on the planet....
Fresh off a week at the cottage, I was fired up to get back on the river with fellow RiverQuest guide and best bud, Don Graham, so off we went. It proved a gorgeous day with a couple of eagles; an osprey, fish in talons;...
Sometimes, they're just camera shy. This brown TUer Tom took a couple of evenings ago on a grey drake spinner just wouldn't hold still. Just so you can get some sense, too, of the blizzard of grey drakes the MO is producing of late, here's a...
It's not often I have the privilege of guiding an 85 year old fly fisherman so an afternoon and evening on the MO with TUers Bill and his friend Tom from Chicago was a real joy. Bill has fly fished storied waters worldwide and loves...