Fishing Report

A steelhead wind blew across the Northern Lower today painting the sky, a bunch of Facebook pages, and a few anglers' faces, with snow.  It was rather pretty if you were inside a fly shop drinking coffee, which I was.  We told some old stories, contemplated what...

This is some streamer weather.  The rivers are high(ish) and dark, the rain is pattering right now, the temperature is going to drop into the 40s for this weekend, and the trout are pre-spawn.  Perfect.  Don the wool, rain jackets, gloves, sinking lines, streamers,...

Finally some big rains, the kind that flush the system, that move the trout, that give the air the smell of wet leaves, cedar, the first woodsmoke of the season.  Finally a bit -- just a taste -- of some fall streamer fishing.  There are some Octobers, like last year,...

The Grayling Fish Farm is no more.  It's been a long battle, from small-time meetings to town halls to the state capitol to national news.  It inspired legislation, caused numerous dustups on social media, left us with a few memorable quotes, and involved thousands of...