by Jordan Lindberg | Aug 22, 2009 | News & Updates
Grayling, Michigan, has been named this year in Forbes Magazine’s list of the top ten trout fishing towns in North America. Grayling joins the list which includes such notables as West Yellowstone, MT, Roscoe, NY, State College, PA, Glenwood Springs, CO,...
by Ted Kraimer | Aug 13, 2009 | Angling Reports
With some rain showers and cool evenings, our local rivers are in better shape than normal for the middle of August making for some good fishing. Streamer fishing for trout has been productive lately thanks to the rain. Best success has been from using small to...
by Jim Enger | Aug 10, 2009 | Creative Nonfiction
When I first got to know the Boardman River I had another, secret, name for it. My private name for it was the “Compromise River.” I called it that because the Boardman ultimately empties into the Grand Traverse Bay, an arm of Lake Michigan, right in downtown Traverse...
by Ted Kraimer | Aug 6, 2009 | Angling Reports
It isn’t news that the weather has been cool and water temps reflect that. Local rivers are in better shape than I can remember for this time of year so get out and take advantage of it. The Upper Manistee continues to offer a sampling of bugs each day: BWOs, Light...
by Jordan Lindberg | Aug 5, 2009 | Flies
The Zoo Cougar has become a staple fly for Northern Michigan big game fly fishing. I tie and fish the Zoo Cougar when I’m chasing large brown trout on the trophy water on the Au Sable below Mio and can report that it is a fly that can move large fish even in the...
