Never gets old. That pure adrenalin rush you get from hooking the hardest fighting fresh water game fish in North America. And not to mention doing it on one of the best steelhead rivers in North America.
A certain percentage of female steelhead make their way up the Muskegon river system seeking food and refuge from the harsh Lake Michigan environment during the winter time.
Believe it or not, some of the largest steelhead of the season come in the transition from winter to spring in February and early March.
The brown trout fishing on the Muskegon river just keeps producing! Producing more brown trout on such a consistent basis makes me just itch for the dry fly fishing the drake hatch this spring / early summer!
Beautiful colors on this young male (buck) steelhead from the Muskegon river.
Fresh steelhead continue to enter the river system as we are heading into a major transition point of winter to spring. Look for water flows and temps to rise bringing more steelhead up into staging areas as the spring steelhead season creeps its way forward next few weeks.
post by: jon fortuna