It Has begun

About this time every year the phone starts ringing and the email start showing up, How is the salmon run looking? are there any fish in the PM yet?....yup there's fish here, not allot but fish hard and you will hook a couple. what works the best to catch Salmon? Long explanations and  lots of describing later we get it figured out, well this year here is the short list. Ties these on and fish where there are salmon and you will get bit.no need for anything else!!

Storm thunder-sticks

#5 spinners

John with the first king of the year.

Happy New Year

Well we have arrived at the eve of another great year, man how time flys! I've met a ton of cool people this year,some will become lifelong friends and others will be folks that i may only see once a year but that's whats so cool about this job,you meet a lot of great people. Looking back on the year and thinking of all the fish that have been caught it can really be humbling to think that people will travel hundreds if not thousands of miles and spend hundreds of dollars to spend what could there only vacation with goofy ass me, to all of those folks that have fished with me a very heart felt Thank You. I really look forward to this following year, more cool people more awesome fish and maybe even a few more road trips to fish.

Steelhead on the Brain

Here are just a few Pere Marquette river steelhead from this fall. 

Great Fall steelhead 

Don with a Pere Marquette steelhead

the Master with steelhead greatness 

Dave with a pm river rainbow

PM river steelhead

A day in the life of a guide

Steelhead fishing here on the pere Marquette river can be awesome most of the time....it can also humble the hell out you too, making you wonder if you really have a clue as to what your doing! This was one of those weeks,a few hook ups on egg flys,nothing on the swing and one to the net on a hex nymph oh well it was some great weather.  Oh we caught some suckers too.