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Happy New Year! Welcome to Michigan’s number one Steelhead fishing destination and guide service. We’re happy to have the opportunity to guide and fish the Muskegon River located in Western Michigan near Grand Rapids.  Over this pas

  I really respect a fly fishing company that takes the time to engineer a product and does it right the first time. The Sage ESN reel is one of those products. It doesn’t take me very long to fish a particular piece of equipment and come

My 27 1/2 inch brown I caught on the gray drake spinner fall over a week ago was my personal best on a dry. 26 was my previous pinnacle. It was a cool sunny morning- not ideal conditions to catch a brown of your lifetime. Cloud cover with filtered C

 Fishing has been spot on rainbows are biting and the steelhead are making there way up to Trout Creek. You can hook steelhead fishing your trout nymph setups but our preferred method is swinging flys with spey rods.  As the steelhead make

In this video author Jay Nicholas ties a Deschutes Steelhead Yak Muddler. Skating flies for summer steelhead on the Deschutes River is what it’s all about. Having a steelhead take your fly on the surface (or just below) is what … Continue

Absolutely the best fishing of the season has been the last two weeks! Some times it takes a few weeks for the water to stabilize after heavy winds or fronts this year has been no exception. who would think

The hotter the better!! Smallmouth Bass (And Pike) in Michigan absolutely love hot weather. The top water bite has been incredible lately. Hot Weather has kicked the Smallmouth Bass fishing into overdrive!  Top Water Bass Fishing has been excel

Distinguishing male (bucks) from female (hens) salmon. How can anyone tell the difference between male and female salmon? The question is the same for steelhead and trout of course but this blog post will mostly refer to chinook salmon as … Con

OUTLOOK  This week is a big report!  We are announcing the winner of the Best of 2020 Fishing Picture Contest  we have a cool steelhead fly video from Jordan  Haiden takes an in-depth look

The Caddis Fly Angling Shop/Caddisflyshop.com is proud to offer a selection of fantastic steelhead fly patterns from Midnight Sun Custom Flies. Jonathan Farmer and friends have created a selection of flies tied in the USA by skilled fly tiers using &

OUTLOOK Happy New Year Everyone! We hope you all had an awesome holiday.  We are looking forward to a new year and wish every one of you a great 2021 and are really not sorry to say goodbye to 2020.  This week we have details on the major

Welcome to summer! We have seen an incredible insurgence of new fly angling interest over the past few months and why not? If done in the way we enjoy doing it it is the epitome of social distancing outdoors. Long expanse of beach to yourself intima

Recorded: 61 ° F Fishing: Fair Deschutes River Summer Steelhead Report ————————————————————————&mdash

Spring is quickly approaching and that means spring steelhead run. Both the Grand and Muskegon rivers have been fishing good all winter when the weather allowed us to get out. As of today the Muskegon River is at a moderate to low level and the water

We have blue skies and are finally smoke free today and the fishing has been solid thoughout this week but we are very glad to see blue skys again. Steelhead are making there way up to Maupin currently and there are probably a few up at the top of t

Steelhead fishing is a popular sport for anglers. They are a type of trout that provides challenge and thrill anglers live for. Like trout steelheads are also hard to catch. You have to use your best tactics to catch them. One of the things that you

Yeah it's been a while since I have updated this page! Rest assured we have been busy and getting after it since my last post in September!! We are in the middle of Steelhead season and it has been a...

It's been a long cold Winter but!!!...... Spring is here which means Rogue River Spring Chinook are on there way! This is a good time to book now for your Spring Summer and Fall Chinook Salmon trip for 2021! Carson's Guide Service at this tim

 Lower Deschutes Fishing Report Fishing is picking up as we ease into Fall weather patterns its a wonderful time to come out and fish. We have been getting alot of calls about the steelhead closer. Currently the river is closed to targeting ste

The Willamette River from the upper reaches outside of Oakridge all the way to Harrisburg is in perfect shape and offers anglers excellent opportunities to chase trout and summer steelhead. The Middle Fork of the Willamette above Hills Creek Reservoi