Salmon-steelhead recipe

1-9 ft 8 wt
1-fly reel (i prefer solitude reels)
1-spool  of 25# backing
1-spool 325 gr integrated sink tip(i prefer Cortland quick decent)
6 ft of 15# maxima ultra green
1 salmon -steelhead size streamer(preferably chartreuse/orange or olive /yellow)
1-river or lake

Apply all components together in its appropriate place and do as follows.

Cast ...strip....strip...wiggle ...wiggle.
**repeat as necessary until desired result is achieved.  Possibly a few hundred times.

Enjoy this recipe it taste great when done properly .

**results are varied depending on water temperature, quality of casting, logs, boat handling,wind direction,sun, moon, position of jupiter and many other factors not specified.**

The river

Weather-awesome

Water color- slight stain,perfect

Water temp- 34 degrees with slight rise

Fish numbers- good, the whole river system has fish

Tactics- fly rod or spin cast

Baits-Egg flys stone flys and hex nymphs

Get out there and fish this weekend, great fish numbers and slight traffic makes this January thaw a perfect chance.

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.

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.