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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 27
2012

Pere Marquette Fishing Report- April 26th

Steelhead fishing on the PM has actually gotten a notch or two better over the past two weeks. It seems that the recent rains have brought in a fresh bunch of new fish.

Along with spawners there are also lots of opportunity for drop-backs and trout.

Our “hot fly” the past few days has been the Ted’s Latex Caddis (pictured below), a cousin to the Ted’s Slingshot Caddis. The Latex version is tied with the band from a latex glove and a sparkle pink dubbed head.

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Apr 24
2012

another double first

A few weeks ago Mark and Jeff both landed their first steelhead. Last week Doug tried fly fishing for the very first time and to cap it off, landed his first steelhead. A great start into fly fishing.

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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 12
2012

Pere Marquette River Fishing Report- April 11th

Fishing on the Pere Marquette is about the same as last week, somewhere between ok and fair. There are steelhead around but you have to cover a lot of water to find them. When you do find some fish the clear water doesn’t help, though the low clear conditions are perfect for indicators.

With no significant rain for weeks the PM is low and clear. There have been some mayflies coming off and still lots of baby salmon around.

On a good note, I saw many fresh steelhead moving upstream today.