Great day on the Muskegon River with fellow guide and bud, Don Graham. The steelhead and brown trout decided to play, even as a bald eagle soared overhead; a whitetail sunning itself looked on; and turkeys, turkeys, turkeys and more turkeys worked the shore-side oak...
Almost as rewarding as bringing steelhead to hand is releasing them. Here Don and I release hens to spawn and renew our fishery. ...
One of guide Don Graham's and my fellow guide acquaintances, upon slipping past us on the MO today, couldn't figure out why, in his words, a couple of "old guys" like us weren't in Florida. Guess he didn't get a chance to see these. Fresh...
Great day on the water with fellow RiverQuest guide Jay Allen. Temps in the low 40's, sunshine, and hungry trout: what a combination! Today was classroom time for yours truly; Jay has researched, seined, tied, experimented, and probed spot after spot in search of winning...
Doesn't get any better than this: guides' day on the MO with fellow RiverQuest guide and best bud, Don Graham, and steelhead on the swing. The bite on C & D was slow with only a nice teens brown trout taking a liking to our...
Great times on the MO! Take your pick: salmon or steelhead. Steelhead numbers are now sufficient to warrant targeting them exclusively. Eric, though, opted for salmon today so son Adam could be assured of repeated hookups. I like to use the readily available salmon as...
Sweet time with Dean and his friend, Earl, who is one big-time South Haven perch guy—some 3,400+ into his boat last year! Fly fishing, though, was a new deal for him so we broke him in well, both with C & D and indie rigs. ...
Total riot on the MO today with Patrick and colleague, Matt. The guys wanted to fish salmon and fish them we did. After putting some in the boat, we held a fly casting clinic; Pat's business associate Dan had presented him with an Orvis Clearwater...
Son Frank treated the guy who taught him to fish and love the outdoors, Frank Sr., for a day of fly fishing. Frank Sr. similarly taught the other eight of his children and now is taking his grandchildren fishing. They all apparently love it and...