Steelhead fishing at it's finest

The Muskegon River recieved a very good push of chrome Steelhead that all seemed to stop in the section of river we fished today and they were on the bite in a big way.  Long time customer of Muskegon River Guide Service, Gerald Magee brought his wife Andrea for her first time Steelhead fishing and she picked up on the program right away putting a nice 9lb. buck Steelhead in the net before we were a full minute into our first spot of the day!!  They both kept up the pace for the whole day hooking and landing enough Steelhead that I think it's best we do not even get into the numbers here.  Boat traffic is slowly starting to build though it does not yet reflect the fishing quality.  We are set up for a great fall season and I am looking forward to fishing with all of you who are on the schedule or will be in the near future.  Gerald and Andrea are pictured below with a couple of great Steelhead from today and a bonus fresh King Salmon.

10/18/2011  Don't let the picture fool you, she caught the fish but would not touch it!

10/18/2011  A healthy Muskegon River Steelhead.

10/18/2011  Gerald with a fresh Salmon from today.  Not a bad bycatch.

 

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I had the day off due to a scheduling error on my part, can anyone guess what I did??  I just had to try chasing some dropbacks down river to see how the bite was, I lasted about three hours before I decided I had enough hookups to say back bouncing spawn for dropbacks is the way to go right now.  There are still good numbers of Steelhead on gravel and dropbacks feeding behing them in the upper river but it sure is nice to go out and hook a bunch of fish without seeing another boat!!  Pictured below are a couple of this morning's hungry dropback steelhead.

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Steelhead fishing on the Muskegon River is good for mid May but boat traffic is higher than normal for this time.  Water level has dropped considerably and is slightly colored.  There are decent numbers of dropback fish available in the pools and still quite a few Steelhead on spawning gravel.  Ed and Fritz and I hit the Muskegon River around 8:30 today, we started out back bouncing spawn for the first hour and a half and found a few hungry dropbacks and fought through the army of trout gobbling up our bait.  Around 10:00 we switched gears to fly fishing and had good action for the rest of the day putting a bunch of fish in the net including a hefty buck that was 12 lbs. on the boga grip.  I have May 15 and 16 available for Spring Steelhead fishing on the Muskegon River, back bouncing spawn can produce some exciting strikes with hungry dropback Steelhead call or email to get out and enjoy some nice weather and solitude on the river.

5/9/2011 Fritz hooked this fish back bouncing spawn and it was the best fight all day.

5/9/2011  Ed with the big fish of the day 12 lbs. on the boga!!

5/9/2011  Fritz with a colorful buck steelhead.

5/9/2011  Ed with a dropback Steelhead caught back bouncing spawn.