Been out a fair amount since last report, but not as much as I'd like to. Success prior to this most recent warm up was hit and miss, but on most days we managed to make good out of it...

John and I fished with Stuart for just an hour or so prior to some football games when he came to Michigan for his brothers memorial. Our condolences once again Stu and like you said. The PM does have remarkable healing powers...

Success has been more on the smaller nymphs and lighter colored egg flies for the most part. Work the runs thoroughly, then switch flies and do it again...

Seems like when the birds are singing the fish are active and on some days you can really run the numbers up on some trout as well. Haven't had any real bruisers lately, but lots of pretty perfect specimens.

On Tuesday the weather warmed up considerably and after driving all the way down to Muskegon for a dentist visit and back in the morning John and I decided we'd better float a quick section.

I'm not much of a "numbers" guy so I won't go into too much detail, but well into the double digits on the Steelhead hookups and a bunch of trout will suffice. I can only speculate as to how well we would have done had we spent the whole day out there and unfortunately, I am left with only the memories and some great mental snap shots of all the ones I hooked and often saw in the air.

Still, we managed to put several of John's in the net to gather some fish porn and these fish were HOT, HOT, HOT and hard to hold onto! Nice Job John..

Kyle and Katie were out there on the same day with similar results (You can read Kyle's, aka ChromeKid's, report on our forum.) and one other boat with three guys from Cleveland had actually landed over a half a dozen the last time we saw them. (Thanks for staying at the Motel guys and look forward to seeing you again!) It was simply a great day to be out there!

Had pool league on Tuesday night at Barski's and after showing Steve a few photos from the day It wasn't hard to convince him it was time to try out some winter (If you can call it that!) Steelhead fishing himself. Since Tuesday can get pretty festive and late we decided on meeting at 11am for a quick afternoon float the next day...

Long story short, not quite the same bite as the day before, (For us at least, but we did fish behind a couple of other boats.) but Steve did awesome for his first try at a fly rod and between the hours of about noon to four we managed to put some in the net as well as a handful of trout.

Just now got a call from John and he has some things to take care of so we'll be just walking in for a couple of hours this afternoon now, but that's fine since I'll probably be getting out for most of the day every day from now till at least Monday!

I usually try to avoid fishing on the weekends and take a little of the pressure off for those of you that come up, but the weather looks way to good for that over the next several days so maybe I'll just see you out there! (Of course, John and I are both open for guide trips right now as well, but I don't mind too much doing the sore mouthing myself! ;^)

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