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...
The last few days on the Muskegon have been excellent! Caddis, small stone flies, egg patterns, and hexes have all been producing fish. The water levels have been running high and are now with the recent rain screaming. Clarity is the big issue; along as...
Ben Elenbaas and one of his fine customers, Matt, joined me on the river today. We were blessed with a bunch of hookups but brought only two steelies to the boat. Matt had never fished for steelhead with a fly, but he drew...
Lynn and Ken with two of their steelhead from today, thanks Lynn and Ken. Don...
Today, I had Dave Gibbs of Action Fabricators and his guest Dave in my boat. This was Dave's first experience with fly fishing and fishing for steelhead. He caught on quickly and boated both walleye and steelhead. When we pulled lines, we...
Father/son trips are the greatest. Today, I was joined on the river by my good friend, Dan Holtrop and his son, Dirk. Dirk is excelling in his studies at Hudsonville High School, and dad thought, "What a better way to say your Mom...
The past two days on the MO' have been very good to me and my two long time guests Gary and Barry of Missouri. These two fishing machines boated 15 steelhead in the last two days. Water conditions on the river are ideal with temperatures...
The river remains quite high; water temperatures are flirting with that magical 40 degree mark. The river near the dam is running 38-39 degrees and the water a few miles down is 40 degrees in a few places. Steelhead are starting to spawn in the...