Sunshine of Your Feeling

What a great week here on the Pere Marquette!! Beautiful weather and warm rains really put a good disposition on our trout and remaing steelhead, supplying us with a great week of angling. From our trout opener last Saturday to our PMTU Cinco Da Mayo Banquet, it was a joy to see friends and familiar faces getting in on bite and supporting the Pere Marquette Watershed.

The spring steelhead migration continues and although it won’t last for long there should still be some good targets over the next week. My choice of fishing these big bows at this point is streamers only, with the hope of a dropback or an aggressive buck trying to kill your fly. Wearing shorts and sandals fishing browns with a great chance of a steelhead smoking your fly, sure you can bottom bounce or indie fish but I will only be tossing streamers for steel at this time.

The trout are out and will play in one way or another. Eggs are still a major menu option behind the steel buffets. The fry and par patterns have ruled the boat this past week with the help of rain. Streamer fishing should hold and be decent to great over the next few weeks, weather dependent of course. Soon most of us anglers attention will be diverted and dry fly fishing should start to produce. Hendricksons are starting and sulphurs should soon follow!!