Michigan Trout Stream River Guide Books

These guidebooks are available for some of Michigan's most popular and rewarding trout streams/ They include the Au Sable, Manistee, Black, Pigeon, Jordan, Pere Marquette, and others.

Each Guide book includes a history of the area, specific directions (within a tenth of a mile) to access sites, stream depth, bottom, width and current flow, trout cover, detailed maps and a schedule of crucial fly hatches.

Click here to view sample pages from our new Lower Au Sable guide. [PDF]

Click here to view sample pages from our Pigeon River Country guide. [PDF]

Click here to view sample pages from our Au Sable Holy Waters guide. [PDF]

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James Prosek's Coaster Brook Trout LIMITED OFFER!
This 13 X 18 print is signed and numbered by James Prosek.

Cost: $50    

Pigeon River Country
This guide covers the Pigeon, Sturgeon, and Black rivers in full color.

Cost: $27    
Au Sable Holy Waters (Burton's Landing to Wakeley Bridge)
Learn where to fish the fabled Au Sable River.
Includes the South and North branches as well as the Mainstream.

Cost: $27    

Lower Au Sable Trophy Waters (McMaster's Bridge to Oscoda) New
Looking for big fish? Here's where to find them.

Cost: $27    
Pere Marquette
Western Michigan's answer for great steelhead, salmon, and trout fishing, open all year.

Cost: $27    
Boardman and Jordan Rivers
The Boardman River has a long-standing reputation for big browns and oodles of wild brook trout.

Cost: $27    
Manistee River
A wonderful alternative to the Au Sable, in the same part of the state.

Cost: $27    
 

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.
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