Previous Fishing Reports

Our long-awaited fishing trip to the Pere Marquette arrived with the snow and wind this past week.  Baldwin got a few inches of snow.  Grayling a few more.  Kalkaska about

I think of November as the coldest month, as judged by the number of days where I’ve come inside from a day on the river or in the woods and

Almost every early November, I aim for the nastiest day in the forecast and I float solo down the river.  Some years this leads to an incredible day of fishing

The trout are on the beds on the Au Sable and Manistee Rivers.  Be it moon or water temperature or whatever, the spawn seemed to start a week earlier than

Yeah, it’s been gross.  I guess you could say that we had it coming.  Weeks of sunny, warm weather.  Cracking good fall color.  Flying ants.  The fish were eating hoppers

Yeah it was hot but it felt great to squeeze the last out of summer.  We did too!  I went bass fishing with my kids (all the time…they couldn’t get

The last few days we’ve been fighting through a persistent east wind and spitting drizzle.   Now normally the spitting drizzle is exactly what the angler would want on the last

I was chatting with a couple hunting buddies the other day and we all noted that on precisely 9/15 — the opening day of grouse season — our various pooches

I love rainy fall days, and even if they don’t lead to the streamer fishing I think they should, the spirit of them — of change, migration, and the shadowy

River Cleanup and Cedar Planting, Sept. 9th, 2023, 10 am – 3 pm.   We need your help!  In particular, the South Branch and Cedar crews need your help:  both tasks