Things don’t always play out on the river the way you think, but when they do–watch out! As predicted, a couple days of summer-like weather

Wow, sorry for the big delay on my posts! Streamer fishing on the Muskegon the last week with big uglies has been pretty challenging. Posing

With just a few hours to fish, Dick and I headed to the Muskegon to fish  trout with streamers. The fishing was slower than I expected,

Ben and guest Chris joined me today for some “big uglies” streamer stripping.  Chris fishes the Manistee and Ausable and has brought to hand some

The past two days of warm summer-like temperatures in the low to mid-80’s have left the steelhead seemingly pressure cooked. While I can’t speak about

Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words (or as Captain Don says about me—two thousand). Captain Tom Kuieck

Well, after a few days away for an out-of-town wedding it was great to be back on the water today. Joining me were Jim and

Finally got caught up with Bob & Brian for their rescheduled steelhead trip. The water is very fishable but is still higher than we have

After 10 days of having been barred from the river—first by extraordinarily high water and then by order of the Newaygo County Emergency Management Director—Captain

The graph above pretty much says it all…The river is smoked! Earlier today we checked in with Jay, who was braving a trip, to check