- Giant waves this Friday morning, i.e. today, on Lake Michigan.
- More good stuff on the potential for reintroducing grayling to Michigan.
- Great story about king salmon curse breaking on the west Pacific coast.
September, 2011
Sep 30
2011
News Update Friday
Sep 29
2011
Giant Salmon II
Hey, did we mention there are gobs of giant salmon in the Pere Marquette right now? Gobs. Gobs of giant salmon everywhere. Here’s Dave with a big, humped backed, gnarls jawed, musclebound slab from the other day.
Did we also mention we still have Oct 5-7 open?
Sep 28
2011
Giant Salmon
The salmon are really big in the Pere Marquette this year and this fish from last week is one of the biggest Kevin has ever had in his boat. Kevin says that this salmon was many inches longer than his 40″ net handle and as you can see, it was really well built.
The only downside of monster fish is that we are wrecking tackle and burning through flies. So, if you want to bust-up and lose some of our stuff, book a trip.
Sep 26
2011
Pere Marquette fishing report -September 24th
There are great numbers of salmon everywhere in the river right now. We fished the middle and upper river last week and ducked down into the lower river on Saturday in an attempt to avoid the crowds and it worked. There are tons of fish on gravel and in the holes in the middle and upper river with plenty of fresh fish still in the lower river. And very low traffic. We pitched Thundersticks on Saturday and hooked 11 fresh fish. My boat finally hooked a small fish and actually managed to get him to the boat. Salmon season is more about the fight than the grip and grin. These fish are big and hot.
Fish in the middle and upper river have been good biters so far this year with best flies being Kevin’s Salmon Candy and big nuke eggs in orange with white veil, orange with chartreuse veil, and pink with white veil.
Plenty of egg eating brown trout around. We lucked into quite a few while salmon fishing on Thursday with each boat of a three boat party landing a good one. Check out our Facebook page for a pic of Rob’s nice brown. Not sure Kevin and Steve took pictures of their nice browns. We’ll see.
Salmon season is in full swing and should continue at this pace for at least the next two weeks or so. We STILL have October 5-7 open. We’ve had lots of calls but no deposits yet. Drop us a line if you’re interested.
Sep 27
2011
Indiana muskie
Our friend Jeff, of slobby Hoosier bucketmouth fame, is deep into muskie season down in the Hoosier state and stuck this nice 47″ on the fly last week. Check out another picture of Jeff’s big muskie over on our Facebook page. Nice Jeff. Keep them coming.