Fly fishing here in the U.P. right now i would rate as day to day- one day we have outstanding insect activity and Trout are very active, the next day it is 40 degrees and challenging!  If some consistent weather would ever set in Trout fishing would be outstanding, the upcoming week is looking quite promising for this.  More rainfall earlier this week caused non spring influenced Trout streams to rise very considerably to a very high level for this time of the year.  Rivers have crested and are currently dropping, the cold nights should have these rivers down quickly to a good level.  A mixed bag of insects have been coming off on a daily basis-Hendricksons, Caddis, a few Suphurs, and BWO’s have been present.  Still no heavy hatches of Mayflies, the highest concentration of insects have been Caddis.  Some bigger fish have been interested int the Caddis over the last few days.  Dry fly fishing season is upon us!  Pictured below if Jeff from Cin City, Oh with a variety of Yooper resident Trout!

A saying a good friend just told me rings very true- Enjoy life, go fishing!

Memorial Day weekend for a change was some absolutely beautiful weather-daytime highs reached into the high 60’s and this sunshine provided some good insect activity.  A plethora of different aquatic insects were emerging making for a sort of bug buffet for the resident Trout to choose from!  The largest in numbers were Caddis-Trout have been seeing these bugs for a while now & some good fish are still coming up for them.  The Caddis is a stranger hatch due to the fact that they do not sit still on the surface like the Mayfly does.  Seems that many smaller Trout key into this hatch verses when a good emergence of mayflies are on the water lager Trout are more frequent to take advantage of the situation.  On the mayfly front- Hendricksons, Suplurs, BWO’s, and Mahoganies have been out; but none of which have been in significant numbers yet.  Water levels this season have been in a constant state of flux-they are high & then get normal & come up again.  If we could ever get a steady normal flow fishing would be outstanding.  Forecast is calling for more rain tomorrow, so expect rivers to be on the rise over the course of the next few days.

Fly Fishing in the U.P.-we live life slower up here!