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 Au Sable Holy Waters guide. [PDF]

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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: $20   
Lower Au Sable (McMaster's Bridge to Oscoda) SPECIAL PRICE!
Looking for big fish? Here's where to find them.
Cost: $15  
Pere Marquette
Western Michigan's answer for great steelhead, salmon, and trout fishing, open all year.
Cost: $20  
Black River SPECIAL PRICE! ONLY 40 LEFT!
One of northen lower Michigan's best rivers.
Cost: $5  
Boardman and Jordan Rivers
The Boardman River has a long-standing reputation for big browns and oodles of wild brook trout.
Cost: $20   
Manistee River
A wonderful alternative to the Au Sable, in the same part of the state.
Cost: $20  
Pigeon River SOLD OUT!!
The Pigeon is easily wadeable and hosts an excellent population of brook and brown trout, in addition to the occasional rainbow.
  
Sturgeon River SOLD OUT!!
Brook Trout, Brown Trout, Steelhead in the spring, Salmon in the fall.
  
CD-ROM versions are available for the following river guides:
  • Au Sable Holy Waters (Burton's Landing to Wakeley Bridge)
  • Pere Marquette
  • Manistee
  • Lower Au Sable
The Au Sable Holy Waters, Pere Marquette, and Manistee CDs are $20 and the Lower Au Sable CD is $15.
Au Sable Holy Waters (Burton's Landing to Wakeley Bridge)  
Lower Au Sable CD  
Pere Marquette CD  
Manisteee CD  
 
Michigan's Challenge Chapter of Trout Unlimited is proud to offer this DVD on fly tying 19 different patterns that include most of the classic Michigan flies including wet, dry, nymphs, and streamers.

The Fly Tying DVD cost $36 plus shipping of $4.  

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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