Shop Hours 7am to 7pm Daily
Last week felt like June everyday on the river, not mid-September! Warmer then normal and no rain, but that is going to change this week…hopefully?!?! We are expecting several rain events and temps back down to normal…this will help the migration of our mighty king salmon. The season has been going well after a slower start, but we have been working hard to find good numbers everyday! More fish have pushed up the river and have started spreading into the upper river now. But typical migratory fishing; “here today and gone tomorrow”. Fish are starting to spawn throughout the river as well.
With any luck the “weather man” will be right and we’ll receive a couple days of rain over the entire watershed. Regardless, we will be out there doing our best to provide our clients a quality experience and having fun doing it. After all, spending a day on the Pere Marquette River is “time well spent”! Like I said in my last report…you gotta play the “hand you are dealt” and we will make the most out of what we have to work with!
The shop is loaded up with inventory for the season and we are running extended hours (7am – 7pm daily). We pride ourselves in having “the right tools for the job”. Everything you need (or might just want) to fish our area is available at the shop. If there is something you think we should carry, let us know! Plus, we can always special order products for you if we don’t have your size or it’s something you want to try? It feels good to be grinding everyday and in the thick of the season. Catching up with long time clients, meeting new ones and seeing all the familiar faces on the river, at the shop and Motel.
Our guide staff is all booked up until Mid-October, but we still have some excellent dates available at our Motel. We will most likely see an extended king season with the later then normal arrival of the fish. Plus, our fall/winter steelhead trips are starting to fill-up…it’s not too early to book your late-October/November steelhead trips…give us a call 231-745-3529. November is one of my favorite months to fish the Pere Marquette River…come see why!
“Team BBT” is excited about another great fall! The guides are floating the river everyday and finding ’em; the shop is loaded up with gear and swag; the Motel is spotless; the shop staff is “braced for impact” and ready for a long season…here we go!!!
Thank you for your continued support of our Shop, Motel and Guides!!! We appreciate the business and friendships. It’s a competitive industry and easy to shop on-line, but walking into a local shop with “boots on the ground” is one of our biggest assets! We have guides on the river everyday…a shop staff that fishes on their days off…honest and recent fishing reports…a friendly shop atmosphere that welcomes new anglers to seasoned veterans…fly fishing or spin fishing – we do it all!!! If you haven’t fished with us or stopped into the shop…please do!!!
Another fantastic week in the books…here are just a few photos of my clients from last week. Thank you all very much!!!! And a huge THANK YOU from the entire guide staff…John Robinson and Kam Zemites are on the “front lines” everyday…putting their clients on fish! They are both critical team members, but do not post reports, so I would like to express their gratitude to all their clients this season so far!!! THANK YOU!!!
Please catch and release our wild Pere Marquette Salmon and Steelhead….the future depends on it! We have a wild fishery and each & every fish that spawns rejuvenates the next generation. The old line “their all going to die” is true, but they do need to spawn before they die…think about it!!! Our runs are a fraction of what they were 20+ years ago…times have changed and so should we…protect and preserve this valuable resource. We all love catching kings, but we don’t all love eating kings…let them swim away!
Good luck and be safe out there!
John
