Michigan Steelhead Fishing Report RSS

Want to start by saying the Grand Rapids Fly Fishing Film Tour is TOMORROW! There are 2 showings, one at 4pm and another at 7pm. Our stack of tickets is dwindling fast, and by the time you're reading this we will likely be out of 4pm tickets, but still have a good amount for the 7pm show. Call us with a credit card ready and we can do it over the phone and set your tickets aside, and you can pick them up at the shop.  Steelhead are strong! Mostly winter fish right now but there are some brighter fish...

Steelhead have been very good, with more fish trickling in each week. Still waiting on the big push of chrome, and it will be here soon enough. Plenty of fish around to keep us busy though, and it will remain that way for a while. Fish have been taken on stoneflies, hex, and simple caddis flies. Small pale eggs have been good too.    Trout have been steady, with plenty of solid ones mixed in. Such amazing fish! The weather looks really nice for the next week, with a couple days in the 40s. The herd should be arriving very...

The steelhead are really showing up in big numbers now. In certain areas they have started to spawn, and as more fish come inland, the spawn will really start to ramp up in the next few weeks. Our favorite time to target the steelhead is when they are staging. The prespawn season is just beginning, and goes until the first week of March or so. Seems to be a little earlier this year, but this prespawn window is very fun. There are lots of chrome fish around, and they aren't quite up on the gravel spawning yet. All the buckets...

Fishing has been steady over the past week, with some glorious weather on Saturday and Sunday. Water temps were at 40deg Monday, which is quite warm considering we are still in the gut of winter. The next fews days will be cold again, with some possible snow mixed it. But thankfully, it's not going to be extremely cold, and will still allow us to get out! Drifting small nymphs has still been the best method right now. Pale nuke eggs and glow bugs have hooked steelhead, as well as stoneflies and alevin. Caddis and small stoneflies have been good for...

Trout and Steel have been great lately, and the weather has been very cooperative. No huge rain storms recently have allowed the water to reside, and stabilize nicely. We actually got a good amount of melt last week, and some of the water temps really dropped because of it. Still, fishing has been good, with plenty of solid outings. Steelhead are on the move, and are starting to fan gravel in areas, which is very early. If the weather stays the same, we could see a very early arrival of the Spring fish, which are just starting to show up....