“The Pere Marquette River is an almost entirely wild or non-hatchery fishery. If you want the fishing to get better you have to release fish so that they can spawn and make new fish.”

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Level – above average (1370 cfm and stable)
Temp – around 40
Color – high and dirty
Fishing – steelhead good

The fishing on the Pere Marquette River was good last week but then the weather changed twice.  First we had warm rain and the river level surged up, this has been followed by colder weather and a thick layer of fresh snow-slush.  As soon as the water level and weather stabilize we are expecting good fishing with lots of fresh steelhead.  Remember, big and bright presentations for high and dirty water .

The Pere Marquette River still has coho salmon.

A nice Michigan steelhead near Barothy Lodge.

This Pere Marquette brown trout took a large streamer.

Bunny Hex, a great Michigan hex fly.

You can get the recipe for the Bunny Hex as well as dozens of other flies on the Indigo Guide Service Michigan Flies page.