Fly Fishing Guide to Michigan

A Complete Guide to Locations, Hatches, and Tactics

Published by Stackpole Books
Distributed by Simon & Schuster

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About The Book

With more than 36,000 miles of rivers and streams— including thousands of miles of cold-water trout habitat— Michigan is one of America's premier fly-fishing destinations. Anglers can pursue an extraordinary range of species: wild brook, brown, and rainbow trout, steelhead, salmon, smallmouth bass, carp, and northern pike. Cast delicate dry flies on a spring creek, swing streamers for migratory fish, or target warmwater species on scenic rivers— Michigan delivers year-round opportunity and remarkable variety. Few places on earth combine such vast fishable water, abundant gamefish, and breathtaking natural beauty in a single destination.

Fly Fishing Guide to Michigan is your definitive companion to it all. Author Jon Osborn draws on firsthand expertise and insights from top local guides to cover 60 of the state's finest rivers— from the legendary Au Sable and Pere Marquette to remote Upper Peninsula gems— with stretch-by-stretch breakdowns, hatch timing, favorite fly patterns, and hard-won insider tips for trout, bass, and beyond. Whether you're a first-time visitor or a lifelong Michigander, this meticulously researched guide is your essential map to the real Michigan.

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Product Details

  • Publisher: Stackpole Books (January 19, 2027)
  • Length: 536 pages
  • ISBN13: 9780811778671

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Raves and Reviews

“It’s heartwarming to see my home waters of Michigan handled with such love and affection. The state is a true fisherman’s paradise, and Jon Osborn tells you how to get the most out of it.”

– Steven Rinella, author and host of the MeatEater TV show and the MeatEater podcast

“I’m not usually a fan of where-to books— maybe because they generally involve maps and a few sentences about where to turn on what road. That’s hardly the case with Fly Fishing Guide to Michigan. I’d buy it for the history alone, although it’s a great guide to water as well.”

– Kelly Galloup, former Michigan guide, creator of cutting-edge streamer patterns, author of Cripples and Spinners, co-author of Modern Streamers for Trophy Trout

“This wonderful book is so much more than a guide to fly fishing Michigan. With his anecdotes, history lessons, and personal reflections, Osborn provides not just the where, but also some of the why.”

– Anders Halverson, author of An Entirely Synthetic Fish: How Rainbow Trout Beguiled America and Overran the World

“Jon Osborn explores more than the fly-fishing opportunities of Michigan in this new book. His addition of historical anecdotes and fly patterns relating to these waters creates not only a guide book, but a fly angling reference for the state.”

– Glen R. Blackwood, angler, writer, bibliophile, and former owner of Great Lakes Fly Fishing Company

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