Northern Michigan Guide Service & Claybank Outfitters

03/21/2024

Ever wondered where fish are stocked in the Great Lakes, how this year’s stocking compares to last year’s, or how old that fin-clipped lake trout you caught is? Wonder no more, for with the newly redesigned Great Lakes Fish Stocking Database, you can learn all about stocking throughout the basin using the intuitive website http://fsis.glfc.org/

03/19/2024

So true!

12/15/2021

This ❤️⬇️⬇️

A lifetime of river fishing memories, old and new, courtesy of a banana shaped rowboat. (For the duration of this article, please put “Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me” from Elton John on the speakers while you read for proper ambiance…) “The Green Manalishi” ready to take the author back...

12/12/2021

Two favorites are on this list, Browning Auto-5, and Browning Superposed.

How do you define the best shotgun or even a great shotgun? We round up the 10 best shotguns ever made in America.

12/01/2021

Holy Wah!

History was made off the British Columbia coast last August, when a lady angler landed what is perhaps the largest Chinook salmon ever hooked on sport gear—a fish in the mythical 100-plus-pound class! Gayle Gordon and her husband John were fishing near Dawson’s Landing in the fabled River’s In...

11/01/2021

No snagging. Terrible idea. They call it fishing, not catching. If you need help catching a salmon or steelhead, contact your guide!

LANSING — Most salmon live for about four to five years. At the end of their lives,...

12/04/2020

Your favorite guide, Don Tanner, honing some steelhead plugging skills. With COVID-19 still surging, we’re on hold for booking trips for a bit.

10/30/2020

Salmon help the eco system in the after life!

Salmon carcasses are a nutrient rich fertilizer. Beyond simply the nutrients they bring to the stream itself, they have been found to benefit nearby trees, Eagl...

06/06/2020

A great tribute article to a great and wise man and true friend of nature. Rick will be missed deeply.

2020 , Art , Artists , Featured Stories , Iconic Person , Issue 6 , Music , Nature , News , Print Editions Remembering Rick Jones Jordan Bates June 5, 2020June 5, 2020 0 comment The “Green Man” of Benzie County By Carol NavarroCurrent Contributor Editor’s Note: Typically, this publication is n...

03/29/2020

Cabin fever?
Who wants to go fishing with this guy? And catch a hog steelie? (Like this one)
Call to book a trip after the Corona Bug is done!

03/28/2020

In few years these will be nice and plump!

We began our coho salmon stocking season today with more than 175,000 yearlings stocked in the Upper Platte River. We plan to continue stocking the majority of our coho salmon next week to the Upper Platte River to help lower our hatchery biomass. This will put us in great shape to get out the trucks!