by Ted Kraimer | Jul 2, 2009 | Angling Reports
Last week’s hot spell helped kick-off the Hex hatch, but this week’s cool-down has shifted it into idle. The Upper Manistee and the Boardman rivers had respectable hatches lasting about five days, but with the cool down came fewer bugs – Hex and others. Our...
by Bryon Anderson | Jul 1, 2009 | Flies
The following is the first in T|N|T’s four-part series on tying and fishing hopper flies, and on the the joys of Michigan midsummer trout fishing. Look for more installments in upcoming days. With the arrival of midsummer and the “dog days” that follow comes one...
by Tom Sadler | Jun 29, 2009 | Casting, News & Updates, People & Interviews
Note: This essay originally appeared online at NewsVirginian.com (Waynesboro, Virginia) and appears here by permission of author and columnist Tom Sadler. A couple of weeks ago I was in Michigan teaching fly-fishing to some Michigan State University graduate students,...
by Jordan Lindberg | Jun 27, 2009 | News & Updates
Now in its third year, Fuller’s North Branch Outing Club is pleased to host the 2009 Michigan Fly Fishing Festival on the weekend of July 11th and 12th. The North Branch Outing Club is located in historic Lovells, on the banks of the North Branch of the AuSable...
by Ted Kraimer | Jun 26, 2009 | Angling Reports
Finally after a cool spring, summer just came, and so did the hot weather. This week’s pressure-cooker and sunlight were just what we needed to get the bugs going on local rivers. The Manistee has hex bugs, but it’s just the first couple of nights, and the numbers are...
by Jordan Lindberg | Jun 25, 2009 | Environment, News & Updates
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has denied endangered status protection to the coaster brook trout. The USFWS had been asked by the Sierra Club and the Huron Mountain Club, as joint petitioners, to list coaster brook trout as an endangered species. The...
by Jordan Lindberg | Jun 23, 2009 | Gear & Equipment
O.K., so I’ve used ’em all. I’ve even used an actual nail. And the paper clip trick. The straw. The $15 doo-hickie that ties all the other knots, too. But the best so far is a simple and effective little homemade gadget that you will find for sale in...
by Jordan Lindberg | Jun 19, 2009 | Art & Photography, News & Updates, People & Interviews
The Dennos Museum Center in Traverse City is exhibiting the work of artist and fly angler Charles Lindsay this summer. His two concurrent exhibitions, “Upstream: Fly Fishing in the American West” and “Carbon: Cosmic Worlds of Charles Lindsay”...
