Biggy Smalls

The Pere Marquette looks good under the current conditions. With water levels up over the weekend the river held a good stain and hopefully fished well for all. We do need more rain soon though or we will see river levels dropping…by this weekend folks…so cross your fingers and do your rain dance.

 The streamer fishing continues to produce with the good weather we have had of late. Hopefully we get rain and that trend continues. Otherwise even with water levels dropping we should continue to hang on to our fry bite for the streamer crew. On the other front… cold weather over the past weekend has stalled are hatches and put things back on a more normal schedule… I hope. There are a hodge podge of stones, hennies, and some sulphurs emerging throughout the day to keep one busy. Are first real Pere Marquette hatch is generally  sulphurs and we should start to see more of them as soon as the day temps increase and more importantly are night temps increase. The third week in May at this rate is when we should see are dry fly fishing start to take flight a bit…bad pun intended.

  I would like to point something out here for second folks and hopefully you continue to read on. We are so extremely lucky to live in a state that gives so many opportunities as an angler. If you add up all the inland lakes,  the big lakes, and numerous rivers across the state it is staggering how much water and how many fish we get to have fun with and trophy fish at that. I was on the Muskegon watershed with my two good friends, an Irish asshole and a fellow Dutchman, fishing trout when McGriff the crimedog caught a beautiful smallmouth and… it was a by catch!! Just got me thinking how lucky we are in Michigan.

Get out explore and catch em where you thought you couldn’t!!