True North Trout
  • About our Guides
  • Guide Trips
  • Lessons & Guide Info
    • The Rivers We Fish
  • Hatch Charts
  • Contact
  • Blog
    • News & Updates
    • Angling Reports
    • Flies
    • Gear & Equipment
Select Page

Midwest Fly Expo 2023

by Brian Kozminski | Mar 14, 2023 | Gear & Equipment, Lifestyle, News & Updates

Another great year in the books with headliners George Daniel, Landon Mayer, Tim Flagler and Jake Villwock. Ann Miller was on hand with her much anticipated new Midwest Bugs book. You need a copy? Get to your local fly shop and pick one up! The weekend was fairly well...

2023 Midwest Fly Fishing Expo

by Brian Kozminski | Jan 30, 2023 | Casting, Lifestyle, News & Updates

As I look outside, the river is slowly meandering, with frosted banks and a high of 8 degrees on Friday, I personally can’t wait for the month of MARCH- It’s Coming!! A little more than a month away, it is time to start making plans to attend the Best Fly...

Women in Fly Fishing

by Brian Kozminski | Jan 20, 2021 | Environment, Lifestyle, People & Interviews, Uncategorized

Curious trends are happening across the US and everywhere in the world- recent Covid Pandemic has sent people outdoors. Finding trails, parks, campsites, and nature preserves many didn’t even know existed. Which is a good thing. We have more hikers, bikers,...

2019 Midwest Fly Fishing Expo Highlights

by Brian Kozminski | Mar 23, 2019 | Books & Video Reviews, Lifestyle, News & Updates, Uncategorized

March 9 & 10 were the dates for this years Fly Fishing Expo in Warren Michigan. All the usual characters were out and we had a great time catching up with friends and family from across the region. I spoke with a representative from the Michigan Fly Fishing Club...

Fall 2018 Video

by Brian Kozminski | Nov 12, 2018 | Art & Photography, Flies, Gear & Equipment, Lifestyle

My good friend and video/photographer Alex Childress spent some time with me this fall chasing a few brook trout and trying to capture that perfect moment of color from the landscape and the trout of our local rivers. Although we spent several hours throwing streamers...
« Older Entries

Book A Lesson Or Guided Trip!

Book Now

Prospect for Trout

  • Angling Reports
  • Art & Photography
  • Books & Video Reviews
  • Casting
  • Creative Nonfiction
  • Environment
  • Flies
  • Gear & Equipment
  • Lifestyle
  • News & Updates
  • People & Interviews
  • Podcasts
  • Product Review
  • Trips & Guides
  • Uncategorized

T|N|T on Facebook’s Evil Empire

True North Trout on Facebook

T|N|T on YouTubes

Tags Ends

Pigeon River Orvis Simms Temple Fork Outfitters Camp Ginger Quill FFF Call for Authors Brook Trout Au Sable Steelhead Manistee River Life Fly Fishing Film Tour Hendrickson AuSable River A Deliberate Life Everything Pere Marquette River TU streamers Boyne River Fuller's North Branch Outing Club Rusty Gates Michigan Fly Fishing Club Umpqua Feather Merchants Platte River Smallmouth Bass Cabela's trout Scientific Anglers Tricos South Branch Michigan salmon Jordan River Terrestrials Brown Trout Midwest Fly Fishing Expo Yeti Coolers Au Sable River The River The Northern Angler Asian Carp fly fishing patagonia Salmon in the Classroom F3T Tippy Dam Great Lakes #forgettheforecast Mousing Trout Unlimited Jim Harrison Anglers of the AuSable Hexagenia limbata Adipose Boatworks Traverse City Grand Traverse Bay The Universe Hopper Patterns Michigan Trout Unlimited MDNR Old Au Sable Fly Shop DNR Kelly Galloup Betsie River Wives and Lovers fly tying Carp Boardman River Northern Michigan Gates Au Sable Lodge Rivers Anglers of the Au Sable Egg Flies

Digital Magazines

  • Catch Magazine
  • The Drake Magazine
  • This is Fly

Environmental Data

  • Michigan Weather
  • USGS Real Time Water Data

Fish Globally, Drink Locally

  • Arbor Brewing Company, Ann Arbor
  • Bell’s Brewery, Kalamazoo
  • Great Lakes Brewing Company, Cleveland
  • Right Brain Brewery, Traverse City
  • Short’s Brewing, Bellaire

Flies & Gear

  • FisheWear
  • Graplrz
  • Inflatable Kayaker
  • Mangled Fly
  • River Traditions
  • RIVERSMITH USA
  • Ron's Fly Shop- Grayling, MI
  • Scientific Anglers
  • SnowBee USA
  • Tornado Anchors
  • True North YouTube
  • Umpqua Feather Merchants
  • Wind River Gear

Quality Fly Brands

  • Adipose Boatworks
  • Boneyard Fly Gear/Carved Fish
  • DeYoung Studio-Canvas Fish
  • FisheWear
  • Graplrz
  • SUP on the FLY

Reliable Reports

  • Balwin Bait and Tackle (BBT): River Reports
  • Gates’ AuSable Lodge: Fishing Report
  • Hawkins Outfitters: Fishing Reports
  • Mangled Fly
  • Pere Marquette River Lodge: P.M. River Report
  • Ron's Fly Shop- Grayling, MI
  • The Northern Angler: Reports

The Blogosphere

  • Global Fly Fisher
  • Jeff Kennedy-Drawing Flies 365
  • MeatEater
  • Moldy Chum
  • Nomad Anglers
  • She's So Fly
  • Singlebarbed
  • The Fiberglass Manifesto
  • The Weekly Fly
  • Third Coast Fly
  • This Is Fly
  • Trout Underground
  • Way UpStream

Uber-Cool Stuff

  • A.D. Maddox
  • Adipose Boatworks
  • Boneyard Fly Gear/Carved Fish
  • DeYoung Studio-Canvas Fish
  • Ed Walicki's Fish Carvings
  • FisheWear
  • Fly Dreamers
  • Nets that Honor the Fish
  • Recycled Waders
  • Reel Pure
  • SUP on the FLY
  • Tenkara USA
  • The Painted Trout
  • Whiskey Leatherworks

TripAdvisor

TripAdvisor
Review True North Trout Guide Service
RAINY's FLIES
  • Facebook
  • Instagram