by Jordan Lindberg | Jul 14, 2009 | News & Updates, People & Interviews
True|North|Trout reported in May on a story in the New York Times on ex-Michigander Jim Harrison’s Arizona adobe casita (“Catching Up with Jim Harrison”). Harrison winters and writes in Patagonia, Arizona, where he also hunts birds. But in the warmer...
by Jordan Lindberg | Jul 14, 2009 | Angling Reports, News & Updates, Trips & Guides
The Detroit Free Press recently ran two articles of interest to Northern Michigan fly anglers. The first one is written by the Free Press’ regular outdoor columnist, Eric Sharp, and it relates the details of his recent trip to the Soo to fish for Atlantic salmon...
by Jordan Lindberg | Jul 10, 2009 | Environment, News & Updates
2009 Michigan Fly Fishing Festival: July 11th and 12th This weekend Fuller’s North Branch Outing Club is pleased to host the 2009 Michigan Fly Fishing Festival. The North Branch Outing Club is located in historic Lovells, on the banks of the North Branch of the...
by Ted Kraimer | Jul 10, 2009 | Angling Reports
The up and down, inconsistent weather has our Hex hatch continuing a little longer than anyone would have guessed at the beginning of the season. Numerous days of cool (sometimes cold) weather put the pugs on hold while little warm-ups triggered small emergences. The...
by Bryon Anderson | Jul 9, 2009 | Flies
When I think of hopper fishing, I tend to picture a certain set of “ideal” conditions in my head: a stream with moderate to fast current flowing through a wide-open meadow full of tall grass that overhangs the stream banks on a warm summer afternoon, with occasional...
by Jordan Lindberg | Jul 7, 2009 | Flies
Featured now at The Weekly Fly (which, by the way, is a simply great website) is a wonderful short video of Kelly Galloup tying his Ant-Acid. The fly is available through Rainy’s Flies and Supplies, along with a number of his other more famous ties. Kelly is a...
by Jordan Lindberg | Jul 5, 2009 | News & Updates
Seeking Michigan is a web-based history project being spearheaded by the Library of Michigan and the state archives of Michigan. Iis a project that features impressive content. Recently Seeking Michigan has made available a wonderful short film produced in the 1950s...
by Capt. Tony Petrella | Jul 3, 2009 | Creative Nonfiction
If you want to teach your wife or girlfriend how to shoot, simply put her into a pair of borrowed waders that force her to waddle around like a penguin. Then make her lurch around for six hours in a frigid steelhead stream in early March, sublimely confident the whole...
