Thunder calls and rain falls, migrating flies equal more river guides, let’s hope the brown trout rise!! I hope all managed through the recent heat wave well and found some Michigan waters to stay cool this past holiday weekend. The blue gills are bedding, the lupine is blooming, southerners are returning to their northern lake […]
Memorial Day is on it’s way and so comes the summer months of trout fishing!! With the summer comes watercraft permit season on the Pere Marquette. Just a reminder to all the personal canoes, kayaks, rafts and driftboats coming to visit our watershed. You may reserve online or walk into the local Forest Service office […]
The steelhead are almost finished with their 2018 spring migration, the bugs are starting to pop, the fry and par are out everywhere, and summer is on the way. The past week has been beautiful and has fished fantastic!! I hope everyone got a chance to spend some quality time with moms this weekend and […]
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 […]
The water looked great, the water temps where perfect, the weather was gorgeous, traffic was light, steelhead where plentiful, and trout had the munchies. This past week the Pere Marquette’s puzzle fit together perfect and everything was in its right place. It was a wicked start for April and it finally feels, looks, and smells […]
The steelhead run of 2018 is set to be a fast and furious one. Just like our spring. We seem to have skipped spring and gone directly to summer in just seven days….is that possible? A week ago we had four inches of snow and ice mixed, now it is seventy and blues skies. After […]
I am not really into records unless the are vinyl, but we must be setting some sort of record with this special spring weather. It is easy to forget what country we are in at times this April. Even with the snow, ice, hail, and severe winds there have been moments of luck on our […]
We all hope the last of winter is over and officially behind us. This last weekend proved winter hasn’t given up but I get the feeling that even with a few more cold days ahead that somewhere, a large person is about to sing. Trout are about and steelhead are migrating. Eggs, nymphs, salmon fry, […]
Well this is not the first nor the last time Michigan weather will fool you…i wish it was a joke but it isn’t. We can hope that this is the last of winter, fingers are crossed and hope is high. The river is still there and some will still fish. Steelhead where starting to show […]
The wonderful world of ginger. Let’s stop and ponder all the things that the beloved root ginger improves upon. The list starts…Ginger snaps, pickled ginger, ginger bread people, ginger bread cities, ginger ale, deep fried ginger, ginger beer, ginger candy, ginger masala, ginger butter, and fishing. Before the Roman Empire was around people have been […]