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?
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.
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.
The youngest member of the Indigo Guide Service crew, Aaliyah, has been getting more and more interested in fly tying lately. With salmon season here, Dad decided to put her energies and interest to good use. After a few practice flies Aaliyah was proud to point out that Mom couldn’t tell the difference between her fly and one of Dad’s.
Kevin and Aaliyah went through many name options and Aaliyah finally choose Salmon Candy. Kevin reports that the Salmon Candy has caught several kings already.
TMC 105 Hook
Bead Chain Eyes
Estaz Body
Marabou Tail
After the rain we received on Monday the Pere Marquette jumped up quite a bit and picked up a nice stain. While there are gobs of salmon everywhere spawning and staging in the runs and holes, stripping streamers for browns was still good yesterday in the upper river. Mike was up from Chicago and stuck a beautiful brown on a small (2-3″) white rabbit strip streamer. A few aggressive salmon also crunched streamers and of course a few big nuke eggs. Pink seemed to be the most effective color.
Egging for browns was not good with only a few small fish to show for it despite finding and fishing to several larger browns behind spawning salmon. With rain in the forecast for the next few days the streamer fishing for browns should continue to be good.
