Ted’s Fishing Report: Early September, 2009

It’s not much of a secret that the summer’s cool weather has kicked off the salmon run a bit early this year.  So with the fish running bigger this year, it’s not much of a surprise that anglers are choosing to fish for big Kings rather than trout. To each their own,...

Ted’s Fishing Report: Late August, 2009

Note: My apologies for taking some extra time in getting this post online… Ted’s fishing report came to me on time, but I’m posting it from Wyoming and Montana, where I am out chasing Western trout. – JL Despite a few days of hot weather, some...

Dinner with Pete

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...

Tying Kelly Galloup’s Zoo Cougar

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...