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...
The 2013 spring steelhead run has run its course, but you couldn't have proved it by Gary's success today. The fishgods smiled on him all day as he hooked more steelhead than any reasonable calculation for the date would indicate. Gary is an Ausable dry...
With bamboo rod maker Ron Barch and choral director and adjudicator par excellence, Dr. Bob Oster, in my boat, the pressure was on to find some steelhead. The MO, though, is at the point in the steelhead run where the tried and true, "everyone knows"...
Want to say "Thanks!" to your pastor? Invite him to go fly fishing with you! That's what Jeff did for his former Pastor Jim who, as an outdoorsman in his own right, jumped right in, laying out some sweet casts, managing his drifts, and playing...
Non-stop laughs, "remember whens," and news of who is doing what competed with a bunch of steelhead that wanted to play today. Former Jenison Public Schools superintendent of schools and my former direct supervisor, Dave Dresslar, and current JPS super, Tom TenBrink, connected with one...
Love the family trips—today with three generations: Arlan, grandpa; Doug, dad; and Grant, grandson. Today was Grant's day; he flat-out ran a clinic on hooking steelhead. Pretty sweet for an 11 year old in the fifth grade! Wonderful time for this guide, guys! I'll remember...