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 Looking Glass River: you should not drive to Clinton County this morning. The river is blown out, running at 111 cubic feet per second, which is 271…
Read the full report →Chris Izworski reporting on Michigan trout fishing turns to the Little Muskegon this morning with a straightforward assessment: the river is fishable, but it demands patience and precision. Flow is running at 145 cubic…
Read the full report →Chris Izworski reporting from Michigan on the current state of the Clam River, a stream that deserves more attention than it gets, especially in a season when the word “September” should mean something to any angler…
Read the full report →Chris Izworski, reporting from Michigan on the current state of the Flat River, finds himself thinking about what makes a freestone stream worth the drive in early September. It’s not the crowds, which have thinned…
Read the full report →Chris Izworski’s daily Michigan trout report turns to the Rogue River this Monday morning, and the news is straightforward: conditions are fishing well, and if you’ve been sleeping on this Kent County gem, September is…
Read the full report →Chris Izworski’s Michigan Trout Daily weekly overview for Sunday, September 6: here is what the gauges actually show across the state, and what it means for your week ahead. September is the calendar’s gift to Michigan…
Read the full report →Chris Izworski reporting from Michigan on the current state of the Iron River, and there is good reason to make the drive north to Iron County today. The river is running at 57 cubic feet per second, which sits right at…
Read the full report →Chris Izworski’s daily Michigan trout report turns to the Paint River this morning, where September conditions are beginning to show what makes this Central UP system worth the drive from lower Michigan. The river runs…
Read the full report →Chris Izworski’s daily Michigan trout report turns to the Salmon Trout River this morning, and the news is straightforward: conditions are prime, the water is fishable, and if you can arrange the drive north into…
Read the full report →Chris Izworski, reporting from Michigan on the current state of the Miners River, finds himself thinking about the few anglers who actually make the drive to this corner of the Upper Peninsula when the calendar flips to…
Read the full report →Chris Izworski, reporting from Michigan on the current state of the Ford River, finds September settling into the central Upper Peninsula with the kind of conditions that separate serious anglers from casual ones. The…
Read the full report →Chris Izworski’s daily Michigan trout report turns to the Brule River this morning, where conditions are running low and the decision to make the drive north requires a hard look at what the water is actually doing. The…
Read the full report →Chris Izworski, reporting from Michigan on the current state of the Michigamme River, has to be honest about what the gauge is telling us this Monday morning. The water is running at 284 cubic feet per second, which puts…
Read the full report →Chris Izworski’s Michigan Trout Daily weekly overview for Sunday, August 30: here is what the gauges actually show across the state right now, and the honest answer is that our statewide monitoring network has gone…
Read the full report →Chris Izworski, reporting from Michigan on the current state of the Menominee River this Sunday morning. The Menominee is running below its historical norm for late August, sitting at 1040 cubic feet per second against a…
Read the full report →Chris Izworski’s daily Michigan trout report turns to the Presque Isle River this morning, and the news is straightforward: the water is running at 28 percent of normal for late August. At 42 cubic feet per second…
Read the full report →Chris Izworski’s daily Michigan trout report turns to the Sturgeon River this morning, where the cold drainages of the Ottawa National Forest are running well below their seasonal average. At 18 cubic feet per second,…
Read the full report →Chris Izworski reporting from Michigan on the current state of the Au Train River, where August has the forest floor dried out and the water running thin and clear, conditions that reward the angler willing to fish small…
Read the full report →Chris Izworski, reporting from Michigan on the current state of the Thunder Bay River, finds himself looking at a stream that has settled into that peculiar late-summer rhythm where everything depends on the first light…
Read the full report →Chris Izworski reporting from Michigan on the current state of the Black River in the western UP. It’s late August, and the Black is running at 15 cubic feet per second, which puts it at 36 percent of its historical…
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