Newsflash

Our next general meeting will be January 21, 2025 and will be held in the downstairs meeting room of Lockhart's BBQ restaurant. Lockhart's serves good food and beverages so plan on coming early for dinner around 6pm, meeting to start at 6:30pm. The address is 202 E. 3rd Street, Royal Oak. More details to follow.

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Manistee River

Wade. Don't Wander. Trout angler guides save you money.

Deward to Smithville. Skinny water to big water. Detailed directions to 32 public access sites with turn- by-turn instruction to the tenth of a mile. Full color with photos of the area and histories of lumber industry. Emergence schedule and color photos with recipes for 12 fly patterns.


Emergence Schedule

Emergence Schedule

Know your bugs! This complete 90-page guide to matching the insect hatches of Michigan trout streams, with each species detailed on its own page,
is a must-have for both the serious and the novice fly fisherman. This excellent schedule provides the angler with the dates and times of day
for zeroing in on maximum insect activity, the stretches of stream where the action will take place, and the right sequence of flies to use to
fish all phases of the hatch. Compiled by member John J. P. Long, this excellent reference can be yours for $15.

Steelhead Guide

Wade. Don't Wander.  Steelheader’s Guide to six streams on the western side of Michigan’s lower peninsula.

Detailed directions to 52 public access sites with turn-by-turn directions to the tenth of a mile. Covers six streams. Includes photos, maps and site descriptions, plus fly recipes and suggestions for techniques.

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