Grand River Fishing Report, Michigan Fly Fishing Report, Michigan Steelhead Fishing Report, Michigan Trout Fishing Report, Rogue River Fishing Report - October 30, 2018

October 30, 2018 - River Report

Steelhead fishing is improving daily, and the weather looks promising. The Grand River is still fishing well, and will only get better. Looks like there is a good amount of rain headed our way tonight, so fishing will likely be great by the weekend. Egg flies in Apricot, Golden, and Creams are great options, as well as swinging. Dakota found this fish in our secret spot.

A few of us spent this weekend up north, and found a few fish. Things were tricky because the water was so low, but we were able to find some spots that were deep and choppy where fish couldn't easily see us.

One highlight was on Friday, when we anchored up in a deep and swirly corner bend. We were making lunch and re-rigging, when I spotted a nice hen that slid up on the sand, literally right next to the boat. Brad slowly grabbed his rod, and without standing up, rolled out his rig and slowly guided his flies toward this fish. It was sitting ten feet from us, in plain view, right on the sand. We could actually see his flies floating downstream, when this fish squared them up, and we watched her tip down and inhale the bottom fly. Brad set the hook, and this thing went ballistic. Jumped probably five times, up and down the pool. We got close to netting it but it eventually popped off. So wild to watch a steelhead eat that close! Doesn't happen very often. Well done bud. He later got this fish from the tail out of a hole not far downstream.

We wrangled with a handful of fish, but again, the water was like gin. They could see the boat coming from a ways downstream, which ended up being cool since we were able to watch steelhead swim around all day. Felt like we were in an aquarium.