Here's an updated thread for the 2024 Michigan Fishing Guide. Have a look or download on to your phone, here Or below: https://www.michigan.gov/dnr/-/media/Project/Websites/dnr/Documents/LED/digests/2024_fishing_guide.pdf?rev=5848d29f4ba544d8bd028998a7abfeeb ..read more

If you're looking for a copy of the fishing regulations in Michigan for 2023, check the link below. 2023 MI fishing guide ..read more

From my understanding from reading the fishing guide, there isn't any regulations downstream from McKinley bride on the main stream of the au sable. I would just like to confirm that this is the case ..read more

These get asked about every so often and Troy Zorn recently provided them to the CRSC. Hope you enjoy reading them ..read more

Hearing about some size limit changes coming on the Muskegon. With the big lodge, not surprising this was coming. Heard they want to go to 15" size limit on browns. Thought I heard upping the plantings also. On a river that warms to temps that kill browns, what is the die off going to be, to produce a few bigger fish? There is potential for a major waste of our resources. So my next question would be, is there a study tied into this ..read more

Pretty brief Coldwater Resources Steering Committee Conference call May 1, 2019 Attendees: Bedford, Borgeson, Schramm (for Peterson), Burroughs, Lyons, Fitzgerald, Cwalinski, LaBelle, Hinchcliff, Darland, Verhamme, Herbst, Claramunt, Lesage, Tonello, Wesley, Hessenauer, Heintzelman, Kovacs, Eade, Wright, Danders, Mondrella, Schneeberger, Bos, Ziegler, Will Haney- news channel 3, Zorn (notes). CRSC priorities from Michigan’s inland trout management plan Troy provided a brief presentation... Minutes from May CRSC meeting ..read more

Today a buddy called me up, he got a fly fishing pole for his sons 10th birthday, it's his first one. He lives in Rochester mi, he asked me to meet him in the downtown municipal park and we can show him how to use it. He's casting away goofing around we have a Rod to show him how to cast. Then we had a guy come up to us and tell us we can't fish in the Paint Creek it's closed this time of year, he's been fishing it since 1980? WTF? It's always been my understanding that the creek is open... Paint Creek Rochester 2019 rules ..read more

Rules apply from April 1, 2019 - March 31, 2020 https://www.michigan.gov/documents/dnr/2019MIFishingGuide-Feb26_647890_7.pdf INLAND TROUT & SALMON REGULATIONS begin on page 38 I will update any changes when made available from the MI DNR website ..read more

There had been discussion about this in the Coldwater Committee, see the minutes in a previous thread for details. The NRC voted on and passed it. Pretty good imo, perfect isn’t possible and this clears up some things while allowing some of the newer styles of flies that didn’t exist in the ‘70s. “Artificial flies”, known as wet and dry flies, streamers or nymphs, is defined as a single pointed hook, or no more than two single pointed hooks connected in-line (the second hook commonly... New fly definition ..read more

Does anyone know what the first item is about? I’d like to see more habitat improvements and I’m hoping this is the beginning of that ..read more