With the hard hitting early winter we have been getting, things have started up a bit early this year for winter trout fishing on the Mo. Today was just a half-day w/ John but it was good enough to consider charging for a full day....
Got a call from Jack late last week who had a trip booked for the 9th. He was bringing his son-n-law Kyle with. ”do you think we should still do the trip? Will the weather be a problem?”, is something like what he said. To...
Good number of steelhead hooked today, just enough to worm our hands up on a very cold day on the Muskegon river. John and Bruce joined me for winter steelhead fishing, looking forward to our next time on the river. Thanks John and Bruce for...
Agendas and winter steelhead are never something you'd ideally try to mix especially when swinging flies, but sometimes the choice of skipping a trip or simply making due with the time-frame given beats the alternative. With a private jet scheduled to wisk Dave and friends...
As some of you know, I've been known to pull some pretty boneheaded stunts on the river while fly fishing guiding, the most egregious of which occurred this fall when, with clients tucked away in my boat, I pulled away from the boat launch, only...
When it comes to the weather it's pretty much the luck of the draw in December. Yesterday's unseasonably warm temperatures made short work of our disapearing snowpack. Less than 12 hours later we're stuck chipping ice from our frozen guides with a howling westerly wind...
Thank God for two days! The Anglers Club of Chicago joined us for the past couple days on Mo'. Swinging flies for steelhead comes with one guarantee--it's never going to be easy! Fishing lived up to that Monday with not even a single bump. High-skies...
A few years back I had the chance to guide Mike and Paula in Jackson Hole. It was summertime, the weather perfect, fishing on the Snake. As the day went on they asked about fishing in Michigan and I said they should give our Steelhead...
When Dan and Chad called a few weeks ago it was to reschedule a trip. It was early in the morning the day of when I got the call. Rain was pounding down near Lansing where they live. Fishing in the cold rain didn’t sound...
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 unfortunate news took Peter and his son off the river early leaving an unfortunate cloud over what was to be...