Wind burnt

The past few days I have been on the water with the one and only Gabe Hillbrand from Hillbrand tackle, Swinging his custom designed jigs for steelhead. Thursday was windy, so after being punished for a few hour with Gale force wind we motor up river to find cover for awhile . As luck would have it we managed to find a couple fish that wanted to come out and play,catching one great looking buck and missing a few others.
  Saturday was a blue bird day. No wind, high sun and warm. motoring up into the same area as the day before proved to be a waist of time with only a couple northerns  that came to the boat, later in the day and downstream a few miles, we found another beautiful buck that smacked a blood leech pattern. with rain in the forecast I would expect good fishing today.

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.