Fishing Reports

  • June 20, 2014

    Sorry for the lapse in reports.

     

    The truth is that as the steelhead season ended I was super busy buying a new boat for my Ludington charter fishing business. Then had to get it ready to put in the water, go through the inspection process and a couple weeks of getting everything set up.

    I did manage to fish a few days and ran some trips on both the PM and Muskegon as well as a few charters. The river fishing has been great this year. The hatches have been heavy and consistent. The Muskegon river is giving up big trout and some big smallmouth bass.

    If a full day trip does not fit your schedule, we are running half day trips for only $275 1-2 anglers with drinks and snacks provided.

  • April 26, 2014

    Happy Trout opener!!

    The Muskegon has fished well this past week, although water clarity has played a role. Water temps have offset the effects of the high dirty water. Steelhead are available in good numbers in the runs and popular spawning areas..Look for the fishing to be great for another few weeks as the long cold winter pushed the peak back a few weeks.

    I still have openings May 5-8 and depending on the fish numbers May 12-?

     

    Pictured (April 26) is a great friend and client Greg with one of the most impressive steelhead I have seen in a long time!!! Although the fish only weighed 16 pounds it had the body of a fish much larger. (Had this fish been caught fresh from the lake it would have pushed over 20 lbs, I have seen untold thousands of fish in my 22 yr guiding career but not many were this impressive.

     

    Nice job Greg!!!!! Great “Kicker” fish to top off 3 awesome days of fishing.

  • April 14, 2014

    And here I though we had dodged a major bullet this year….mother nature is a cold cold woman!!! We have recieved anywhere from 3-6 inches of rain the last 48 hours and all local rivers are blown out and un fishable for a few days now. All launches are closed on the Muskegon river.

    The good news is that the river is still cold and the fishing should be just fine when the water drops, look for reports to resume when the launches re open and the water clears a bit.

River Conditions