Cold Steelhead

Bright sunshine, boat traffic and single digit air temps made us work hard for our fish today but we ended up hooking a good number of Steelhead by the time it was over.  The forecast looks good after this little cold snap so cross your fingers.  Here are a few pictures from today.

Michigan Steelhead

Not much has changed on the river, fishing is still pretty good.  The water did drop to around 1,500 cfs. and the boat traffic has increased.  Water temp has been climbing into the mid 30's from the near freezing mark on warmer days but today it was 35 at the start.  Lets hope that is enough to keep tomorrow's frigid morning forecast from turning the river to slush.  Took the day off to fish with good friend  Dan, who I have guided with in Alaska since 2003 and fishing was great, today Brandon and Shannon were out with me for the morning and we had a pretty good bite going.  Space on my calendar is limited to mostly afternoon half days which are a great choice in April with longer daylight hours, I do have a few days available in May as well.  Here are a couple pictures from the last two days.

Shannon with a nice colored up buck that fell victim to a Mag Lip.

3/15/2014  Brandon with one of his fish from today.

3/15/2014  Sunshine and Steelhead, it's hard to beat it.

3/15/2014  He's smiling on the inside.

3/14/2014  A great Lake Run Brown Trout for your's truly.

3/14/2014  Dan lovin on those fat girls.

3/14/2014  A nice double digit buck that gave me a whoopin.

3/14/2014  We had a fun day on the Muskegon River.

 

Muskegon River Steelhead

It was another one of those cold mornings with slush flowing heavily, we decided to start at noon in hopes the slush would clear but were not that lucky.  We had to move further up river to find non frozen water flowing.  We had a pretty good afternoon hooking a bunch of Steelhead back bouncing and float fishing.  Most of the fish were darker holdovers but we know there are some new fish on their way from the last few days fishing further down river.  I have March 18 and April 9 open for full day trips and a number of days with afternoon half days available in April as daylight increases.  Fishing has been good and should only get better once Spring weather decides to show up for more than a day or two at a time.  Here are a couple fish that Ryan and Ed landed this afternoon.

3/13/2013  Ryan picked up the back bouncing technique very quickly.

3/13/2014  One of the Steelhead Ryan caught float fishing.

3/13/2014  This fish was no match for Ed and his centerpin.

3/13/2014  Fishing was pretty good today.

Muskegon River Steelhead Catching

Dan described today the only way one could, "this isn't fishing it's catching!"  He and Lisa are pictured with a couple nice fish.

3/11/2014  Lisa with a massive hen from today.

3/11/2014  Fishing was border line crazy today.

3/11/2014  Another beast for Lisa.

3/11/2014  This fish had some great color.

Steelhead

Here are Ed and Scott with a couple of the fish they caught on a very productive day.

3/10/2014  Fishing was very good today.

3/10/2014   Scott enjoying the nice weather and good Steelhead Fishing.

3/10/2014  Ed had their number today.

3/10/2013  Scott with a nice colored up buck.

Muskegon River Fishing

Steelhead fishing was pretty good again today once the slush and ice cleared out.  Deb and Mike are pictured with a few of today's Steelhead.

3/9/2013  Deb with a hefty hen.

3/9/2014  Mike with a plug biter.

3/9/2014  Fishing was good after the slush cleared.

3/9/2014  Mike with a nice buck.

Steelhead Fishing

Steelhead fishing was good for us today, Craig and Mike were both new to back bouncing but both seemed to pick it up pretty quickly.  They put a good number of fish to the net and more than anyone wants to admit were lost (craig).  We even found a very hungry Lake Run Brown that had two hooks with spawn bags, a minnow and the spawn bag we caught it on all in it's mouth, after a little dentistry and a quick picture he was released to only be caught again within 5 minutes!!   That's the second time I have witnessed that this Winter, these Browns dropping back might eat more than a drop back Steelhead.  A fun day was had by all and I look forward to fishing with these guys again.

3/8/2014  Craig with one of the fish he landed today.

3/8/2014  We found a few chubby girls.

3/8/2014  Craig with a nice colored up buck.

3/8/2014  Steelhead fishing was good today.

3/8/2014  The glutton of the day award goes to.....

3/8/2014  This guy for not even waiting five minutes to eat again.