Awesome day with Jeff and friend and colleague, Mike! An experienced fly fisherman who has fished with some of Michigan's best known guides, Mike's steelhead background is largely with streamers and 250+ sink tip lines, which he explained don't get along well with the...
What a beautiful spring day! Today I had the opportunity to fish with Sal, Reb & Frank. We started the day with the idea of fishing the lower section of the river, but found it to still be too dirty to be very productive. After...
The Kamin Group joined myself and Dave the last couple days; the guys ability to put up numbers continued again this year. Water conditions remain the same very high and dirty (see the water color in the pictures). During the past two days the...
Chet an his friend Mike joined me on the muskegon river to day, this was Mikes first time fishing for steelhead and he started out with a nine pound steelhead. Don...
Sunshine and another father/son outing—the best—only this time doubly so with a son-in-law joining us for good measure. Dad Tom and son-in-law, Jay, brought son Matt along for his first steelhead trip. Although he didn't put one in the boat, by every measure—casting, line management,...
Rob and his business colleague, Matt, spent the day with me on the river—or should I say "rivers" since the Muskegon was flowing nearly twice as high as its mean flow of about 3300 cfs. Just over 6000 gave us lots of water and...
Just when fishing gets easy as a new batch of chrome hits the river mother nature throughs us a curve ball and sends us high dirty water. I actually like the heavily stained conditions and flows of 6K; as long as you know where to...
Well, the old adage is true. When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Mark O'Brien and Jim Burden got handed lemons this morning with high cool water, poor visibility, rain & high traffic. They were in good spirits even though we were expecting a very hard...
Whoa! The river—she's arising! We jumped from 4400 cfs when we put in this morning only to have it running in the 5700's by the end of the day. We're right on the edge so far as the river being fishable. Nonetheless, Dave Cratty and...