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Remember last April, when Field & Stream Magazine’s Kirk Deeter said in a blog post that Michigan is the top state in the country for fly-fishing? And how we all called our friends and relatives in Montana and Colorado and New York, and asked them how it felt to be such a loser?
Well, Michigan landed on another Deeter list yesterday, but don’t reach for the phone just yet.
This time the blogger compiled what he calls the rudest trout rivers in America. And ranking way higher than we Michiganders might like–second only to the famous Henry’s Fork of the Snake River in Idaho–was our own Pere Marquette River.
Before I’d given the list a careful read, I took that to mean that visitors to the P.M. are likely to encounter anglers swearing at each other, ruining others’ fishing and throwing beer cans at canoeists.
Balderdash! Blasphemy! Surely Deeter isn’t disparaging the plainspoken, hard-working, god-fearing fisherfolk of the Great Lake State!
No, as a closer look at the list reveals, he isn’t. Deeter’s talking about the rivers themselves, not the people who fish them. He points to the P.M.’s fly-stealing stumps and its unpredictable insect hatches as evidence of the river’s rudeness.
As he puts it, “some rivers don’t give a rip who you are, where you’re from, how good you are, or what you paid to get there.”
Now that sounds like the Michigan I know and love, and I’ll take this as another compliment. I might even call my out-of-state friends to tell them I don’t give a rip who they are.
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Friday, December 21, 2012
Saturday, December 15, 2012
mild December weather improved fishing
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Mild December temps and rivers levels back to near normal. A nice improvement Muskegon river Is fishing better, taking more Steelhead now and trout fishing has improved.
The Grand Rivers is giving up Steelhead and Brown Trout, again water level on the Grand is near normal,
The Mainstee river near Tippy Dam. Very good Trout fishing and Steelhead are hitting Plugs.
Mild December temps and rivers levels back to near normal. A nice improvement Muskegon river Is fishing better, taking more Steelhead now and trout fishing has improved.
The Grand Rivers is giving up Steelhead and Brown Trout, again water level on the Grand is near normal,
The Mainstee river near Tippy Dam. Very good Trout fishing and Steelhead are hitting Plugs.
Friday, November 9, 2012
Friday, November 2, 2012
Friday, October 12, 2012
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Salmon fishing Sept 2012
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small mouth bass fishing continues to be very good and improving. But Salmon fishing is what many are doing. and with much success. There are not many Salmon on Gravel spawning, but there are a lot of Salmon staging in holes just below gravel runs. Strong thunder shower to the north yesterday afternoon and high temps in the 60s this week, will have Salmon spawning this week. I have seen some nice Steelhead and Brown trout in the river this past week. Didn't land and Steelhead or Browns this weekend, but I'm thinking we will this week.
small mouth bass fishing continues to be very good and improving. But Salmon fishing is what many are doing. and with much success. There are not many Salmon on Gravel spawning, but there are a lot of Salmon staging in holes just below gravel runs. Strong thunder shower to the north yesterday afternoon and high temps in the 60s this week, will have Salmon spawning this week. I have seen some nice Steelhead and Brown trout in the river this past week. Didn't land and Steelhead or Browns this weekend, but I'm thinking we will this week.
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