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Michigan Steelhead Fly Fishing Guides

Michigan Steelhead season runs November through May. Don't forget to book your trip for spring Steelhead fishing. Full an half days are available. Michigan steelhead are undoubtedly the hardest, fighting most acrobatic, and most exciting fish to catch in the Great Lakes and possibly North America.

Michigan is home to some of the greatest steelhead streams in the world.

This is why steelhead are so highly sought after wherever they are found. In their native waters of the Pacific coast, fishermen will spend days sometimes or weeks in search of just one encounter with the prize fish.

Michigan is blessed with a year-round steelhead fishery with October through mid-December and March though April being prime times. Michigan steelhead are undoubtedly the most exciting fish to catch.

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Michigan is home to some of the greatest steelhead streams in the world!

Michigan Steelhead are hatched in rivers where they stay for 2-3 years. They then make their way to the lakes were they spend 2-6 years. They begin to run up the rivers to spawn at the age of 3 and may return annually at seven or even eight years of age. These older fish are at the third or fourth age class and are rare.

Pere Marquette Winter Steelhead Fly Fishing

Marquette River Steelhead Fly Fishing Guide

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Muskegon River, Manistee River & Pere Marquette River Michigan Guide

Fishing for steelhead can be good all winter long starting in November and lasting through May, If your a diehard fan of really cold weather you can have many chances at the silver bullets on the Pere Marquette River, the Muskegon River, the White River, and the Big Manistee River. We Fish below the Tippy Dam area all the way to Manistee Lake.

We start in late February and early March when the fish are teaming up to start the spawn. There are summer run steelhead that also run up the Muskegon River, Manistee River, and the Pere Marquette River in late June through July to feed on some of the large hatches that occur on these rivers.

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This web site has many different pictures of this fabulous fish, the Michigan Steelhead. The fish are caught in all kinds of weather, rivers and temperatures. Steelhead are Michigan's prize fighters and are the pride of the fishery.