Fly Fishing the Muskegon River - Carvedfish.com Guide Service

A Muskegon River 4 Pounder.
John with a large smallmouth that ate an orange spider.
Mike with a lunker bass taken while streamer fishing for trout.
Captain Leo with a great Brown Trout taken on a size 18 BWO.
Phil with a heavy Muskegon River smallmouth.
Peter with a nice spring steelhead.
Dave with a huge rainbow caught on the surface during a Gray Drake spinner fall. This fish ate our "Gray Fall" spinner pattern, available on our merchandise page.
Keith with a nice brown. "Gray Fall" spinner pattern.
A Montana rainbow that ate our "Hot Head Peacock Bugger". Available on our merchandise page.
A good reason to pinch down the barb. This would have been a lot less painful coming out if I would have.

Dave Taliaferro with our first dry fly brown of the 2008 season. Size 14 "Tomb Stone" pattern.
I'm sure we'll recognize this trout if we catch him again.
Another big bass falls for my "Jack-in-the-Box" popper (available on our merchandise page).
Mid July through mid Sept. there's plenty of action with bass this size.
Sarah with a hard fighting lunker smallmouth.
Captain Leo Wright with an excellent bass.
Smallmouth Bass offer explosive strikes and super hard battles, especially when they reach this size.
Dr. Eric Sandy with one of our typical popper caught smallies.
Ed Amaya with a great smallie.
Agent S with a hard fighting smallmouth.
Our bread & butter dry fly brown trout.
While waiting for the gray drake spinner fall we commonly catch browns this size on wet flies.
The Muskegon is home to many browns like this one. Let us show you where to find them!
Friend and fellow trout-guide Ty Webb with a fry chasing brown trout.
Ron McClain with a butterball brown trout.
A plump, wild brown trout from the Muskegon river.
November is prime time for fall steelhead.
Guide Matt Zudweg releasing a nice brown on the Mighty Mo.
It's big bucks like this one that keep us on the river late into the fall.
Big trout like big meals, like this articulated zoo cougar.
This buttery brown fell for a size 18 sulfer comparadun... great dry fly action in mid May.
A ruby red rainbow from the Muskegon.
Another very healthy Muskegon river brown trout on a sulfer hatch.
Misty morning on the enchanted Muskegon river tailwater.
The biggest brown trout are usually taken on big streamers.
Plenty of 14-15 inch browns and rainbows to produce steady action.

The Muskegon's steady flows, beautiful scenery, and abundant insect life make it a wonderful tailwater fishery.
A belly full of newly hatched salmon fry.
The sunrise starts to burn off the morning mists.
Who said you can't catch large fish under a bluebird sky?
Mouse-it's what's for dinner!
Another healthy Muskegon river brown trout.
Guide Matt Zudweg with a FAT Muskegon river rainbow.
A healthy rainbow from the Mighty Mo.
It's tough to beat the scenery on the river.
A big brown about to swim again... we practice catch and release.
The Muskegon holds lots of smallies this size that will put a good bend in a 5 weight.