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May 01
2012

Muskegon River Fishing Report- April 29th

Steve sent the following:

I fished the trout opener this weekend on the Muskegon River with Carston and Annie from South Africa.  All in all it was far from a horrible trout opener.  We managed a few hookups on steelhead, netting one and the trout fishing was really good.

Annie caught a really nice brown right off the bat and Carston followed up with a big rainbow, this was along with a gob of smaller ones.  It kept us busy.

We started at Croton Dam on Saturday floating down to Thornapple, saw a few steelhead but not many.  Sunday was Thornapple to New Bridge, same scenario with us landing some good browns but there were less steelhead.

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Apr 19
2012

Pere Marquette River Fishing Report- April 18th

The steelhead fishing is still idling at ok.  There are enough spawners around to have some action but that is about it.  What has been spicing up the days is a good number of drop-backs moving down river.  These rebrightened hens are eager and aggressive, a lot like fishing the fall.

The river is up a bit and has some color since the recent rains.  I also heard that there are some new fish heading upstream, let’s hope this is more than a rumor.

The browns have been hot or cold.  More cold for me lately but Steve did great stripping streamers a few days ago.

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Apr 16
2012

What the brown trout puked up?

We recently caught this really nice brown and it ejected this unknown creature.  What is it?

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Feb 14
2012

Pere Marquette fishing report -Feb 13th

Winter fishing is a fickle thing. Though on the Pere Marquette, when and where you’re fishing matter a lot no matter what time of year it is. We have made contact with several steelhead over the past week or so on hex nymphs, 8mm beads, and hot’n'tots, but only today did the fish make it to hand for a little photo shoot. The fishing can be great or really crappy depending on where you’re fishing and what time of day it is. There seem to be good numbers of fish throughout the system, better concentrations in the upper river, but they are all over. You just need to find them in the mood to eat.

I fished the upper river for a few hours yesterday with the nymph rig and caught several decent trout including a big brook trout, something of an oddity for the Pere Marquette (great picture, I know), on clown eggs. I also stuck a nice colored up buck on a clown egg fishing the dark water around gravels.

At the same time, Kevin and Sweet Chili Martinez were fishing the middle river with an InFisherman camera crew and landed four steelhead, a coho, and several “very nice browns” on hot’n'tots. Let us pray there are pictures. Fishing report part II tomorrow? Hopefully.

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Feb 02
2012

Pere Marquette fishing report -Feb 1st

The weather is weird here. It snows a bunch then it gets warm and everything melts. Repeat. The river has a nice stain right now from the fly water to the Big South. The ice has broken up in the lower river and the river below the Big South is most likely quite stained. With highs in the low 50s on Monday the steelhead and trout fishing has turned on. We heard the steelhead fishing was particularly good on Monday. Seth was up yesterday and we stripped streamers for trout and stuck a couple decent fish but we didn’t roll anything to get excited about. No luck with the steelhead, but others on the river had a little better luck.

It’s weird to head out and strip streamers for trout on Feb 1st and it’s pretty cool to stick a few, particularly after last year’s brutal winter. This weather will make for a strange winter and spring steelhead season as the fall and winter run fish will spawn as soon as the water warms up into the 40s, which it was very close to doing on Monday. There are some worked up gravels throughout the fly water, but we didn’t see any fish on them yesterday.

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