Kings are on the gravel, fall steelhead are stacking up behind them, and nearly every trout stream is still open. Best week of the fall.
The callGo west. Beads below the redds on the Manistee and Muskegon, and stay for the steelhead stacking up behind the kings.
Beads below the redds. 10mm, natural orange and peach.
Manistee, Muskegon, Pere Marquette.
Big articulated streamers. Low light. Hunt the banks.
Holy Water, North Branch, Mason Tract, Boardman.
BWO #18–20 late morning. Mahogany #14–16 after lunch.
BWO is at peak statewide.
Floating line, a 12-foot leader, an indicator, and a bead fished below the redds. Natural orange and peach, 10mm. Single-hook water below Tippy, so mouth-hook your fish.
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Check every hook against the half-inch single-hook rule before you fish below Tippy.
Steelhead
Fall steelhead below Tippy Dam
Single-hook water, egg-eating fish, and the reach that fishes best in October.
Regulations
What stays open after Sept 30
Year-round water on every trout stream we cover, river by river.
Field guide
The Hex hatch, explained
Peak dates, where to be at dark, and what to bring.
On rivers without a temperature sensor, a dated report from someone who fished it is the only thing that can move a river past “Building.” Thirty seconds, no account.
Club outings, TU chapters and shop events across the state.
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How this site works. Flow and temperature come straight from USGS gauges. Shop, guide and DNR reports are credited wherever we use them. The calls are mine, and when I get one wrong I say so the next week. More about the site