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Last week was a bit tough on the dry fly front. I was able to get out of the shop for a few days on the water up north. Unfortunately the weather did not really cooperate and it made for a tough couple of days of fishing.  Early in the week we had some cloudy weather which made for a good iso bite in between rain storms. The Iso is always one of my favorite hatches of the year. Fish love to chase these swimming mayflies down as they emerge. Blind fishing Isos can be some of the best daytime...

It’s been a while since the last report and quite honestly this has been the most difficult start to spring fishing that I’ve seen in a long time for trout. The flooding and worm flow events shuffled the deck and gorged the fish. I spent a significant amount of time searching water for rising fish while we had strong Hendrickson hatches to little avail. Along with the water conditions and weather clashing, boat traffic was off the charts on certain rivers. Combine that with tough fishing and it made for some pretty quiet weeks on what are typically productive fisheries...

Spring is here and so are the fish.  Warmer temperatures and a bump in river levels have pushed a lot of fish up the river systems. Most of our rivers have just returned to normal levels or slightly higher than normal depending on where you are at. There is rain in the forecast so I would expect water levels to stay on the higher side for the next week or so. Lately we have been fishing the Muskegon river and have found most of our fish in pocket water or runs near spawning gravel. I have yet to see any...

We aren’t out of the woods just yet! Some unseasonably warm weather moved through and shuffled the deck big time. With the first major high water event of spring under our belts, there are quite a few fish scattered throughout the systems. There have been great days, there have been very slow days. Conditions didn’t seem to line up with exactly what you might expect the last couple of weeks. On the warmer weather patterns, the morning was fairly productive while the afternoon slowed down a lot. That could be due to numbers of fish in different sections of river,...

Winter came and went, and then it came again! We’ve seen some big air temperature swings in the last few weeks which has opened up some really strong windows of fishing. With water levels up, the streamer fishing has had its moments. Black circus peanuts with some contrasting heads continue to shine if you’re looking for a big pull from our migratory fish which seem to be hanging around even the upper reaches of our rivers in good numbers. The trout seem to take a liking to similar flies although a little less flash goes a long way when looking...