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Summer Bugs are here, over the weekend the brown drakes showed up in full force. A group of the Nomad Anglers crew sent it up north to chase the falling brown drakes with some success. Plenty of bugs around and fish eager to feed. Brown drakes are winding down now, and I would expect the big bugs to start any day now. Isos are starting to show up in fishable numbers as well. These are a great option to blind fish in the early evening before the bigger bugs fall. Swing by the shop to load up on big flies...

Well the heat wave is still here, water levels are way down and water temps are on the rise. We are in need of some rain ASAP!!! Where does that put us with bug hatches right now? With the high temps things are happening late, and hatches are going to go quick. Hopefully next week's cooler temps will put the brakes on a bit.  For the most part Grey Drakes are still the main bug popping off during that dusk time period and there are trout still looking up to eat those bugs. Plenty of sulphurs on the Muskegon as...

This is finally the time of the year we all have been waiting for, sunny warm days cooler nights! Bugs are hatching, trout are rising, bass are eating poppers life is good! So go enjoy the weekend and get on some fish doesn’t matter what you like fishing for you can go catch it right now! (Besides steelhead… I miss those guys)  Let me give you the Guide program run down of what I have been doing on the water to stay so successful. First for trout - Sulfurs, grey drakes, caddis, BWOs, and a couple hennies left around GR...

Warm days are back and the bugs are here to stay! Dry fly season has gotten off to a good start with a good number of bugs showing up and some bigger trout working those bugs, its been a lot of fun. Hendricksons are winding down up north, but brown bugs and sulfurs are next up on the menu. Similar story downstate on the west side. Hendrickson winding down, lots of caddis, march browns and sulphurs are right around the corner with the warmer weather in the forecast. If you are heading out this weekend make sure you got some sort of...

Bugs bugs bugs! Hennies are falling, fish are eating, there’s not much else to say besides go fishing it’s dry fly season! But in all seriousness this fishing report is going to be short and sweet, the weather is finally playing out like it should in May. We have had good warm up in temps which is helping us so much with bugs right now. The rogue river is on fire with tons of caddis, BWOs, and hennies falling it’s been fun guiding dry fly stuff after a long cold winter. The caddis have been in the 12-14 size range,...