One Michigan river, every morning. Live USGS conditions, what's hatching, and whether it's worth the drive.
Chris Izworski reporting from Michigan on the current state of the Pine River. It’s late July in the Eastern Upper Peninsula, and the Pine is running near normal for the season at 85 cubic feet per second. That’s 113…
Read the full report →Michigan’s trout rivers are telling a split story this week. The Upper Peninsula is running high on its western rivers while the east dries out. The Northern Lower Peninsula sits mostly stable with a couple of outlier…
Read the full report →Chris Izworski, reporting from Michigan, finds the Cisco Branch Ontonagon this Sunday in the kind of shape that demands honesty: the river is running 1 cfs, which is 5 percent of its historical median for this date, and…
Read the full report →Chris Izworski reporting from Michigan on the current state of the East Branch Salmon Trout River: this is a day when the drive north to the Huron Mountains makes sense, provided you understand what you’re walking into…
Read the full report →Chris Izworski, reporting from Michigan on the current state of the Thunder Bay River this Saturday morning in late July. The gauge at 04136000 reads 796 cubic feet per second at a height of 3.1 feet, which puts the…
Read the full report →Chris Izworski, reporting from Michigan, focuses today on the Maple River, where the freestone character that usually draws central Lower Michigan anglers into its Gratiot and Clinton county waters has been tempered by…
Read the full report →Chris Izworski, reporting from Michigan on the current state of the Thornapple River this Monday, July 20th. The Thornapple is running low for late July, sitting at 103 cubic feet per second against a historical median…
Read the full report →Chris Izworski’s Michigan Trout Daily weekly overview for Sunday, July 19: here is what the gauges actually show across the state right now, and why this week is split between blown-out northern rivers and the narrowing…
Read the full report →Chris Izworski reporting from Michigan on the current state of the Black River. We’re deep into July on this remote eastern UP brook trout stream, and the season has moved squarely into terrestrial and evening dry-fly…
Read the full report →Chris Izworski, reporting from Michigan on the current state of the Black River this Saturday morning in mid-July. The gauge at 04031000 reads 21 cubic feet per second, gauge height 1.9 feet. These are low flows, even…
Read the full report →Chris Izworski, reporting from Michigan on the Tahquamenon River this Friday, finds one of the UP’s great rivers in solid shape and worth the drive to Paradise if you time the hatches right. The Tahquamenon is running at…
Read the full report →Chris Izworski, reporting from Michigan, on the current state of the Ontonagon River: we are looking at a river running about 30 percent below its historical norm for this date, and the question facing anyone considering…
Read the full report →Chris Izworski, reporting from Michigan on the Cedar River in the central UP, finds a freestone system running near its historical median for mid-July and fishing well enough to justify the drive if you can time the…
Read the full report →Chris Izworski, reporting from Michigan, turns to the Silver River this Tuesday morning to assess what the current conditions mean for anglers considering the drive into the Upper Peninsula. The Silver is running at 35…
Read the full report →Chris Izworski, reporting from Michigan, turns to the Trap Rock River this morning with the kind of anticipation that comes from knowing a place few people fish. It’s mid-July in the Keweenaw Peninsula, which means the…
Read the full report →Chris Izworski’s Michigan Trout Daily weekly overview for Sunday, July 12: here is what the gauges actually show across the state right now as the terrestrial season settles in and summer heat begins its midday squeeze…
Read the full report →Chris Izworski reporting from Michigan on the current state of the Pine River this Sunday afternoon. Mid-July on a freestone stream in Midland and Isabella counties means one thing above all: timing is everything. The…
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