Steve Fraley

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Steve Fraley has been guiding the Pere Marquette since spring of 1992 and guiding full time both in Alaska and here since 1994. You can follow Steve's personal Facebook and Instagram accounts by clicking the small icons below... Read Steve's full bio.

April 24, 2023

Well... I'm just gonna start off with WOW, what a great season! Lots of great clients, lots of great group trips and a whole lotta fun... I had a couple of unplanned days off due to cancellations as did some others, but for the...

March 30, 2023

Hey guys, I'm gonna make this one short and sweet due to some time constraints... I've been on a work hard play hard bender and burning that proverbial candle at both ends as has pretty much everyone involved in our operation. (Big shout out...

March 18, 2023

I haven't been upriver since my last report so I’m going to rely on John’s last report for details on flies, etc.… I’ve been running a little further downstream with floats & beads doing well most days. 10-12mm in the various forms of green...

March 9, 2023

Sorry, it's been a minute since my last report... Staying pretty busy, but I do still have a few prime dates available as do our other guides. My personal openings are currently March 12, 27 & 31 as well as April 9th. Call to...

March 1, 2023

BBT WILL BE CLOSED TOMORROW 03/02/2023! Sorry for the last minute announcement and any inconvenience, but the shop will be closed and all guides/staff will be unavailable for a brat eating, fish catching, team building exercise!! (It was the only day we all had open...

February 24, 2023

PSA - Beginning Monday February 27 our new shop hours will be 7am - 6pm daily! (Still 9-5 this weekend.) Not much "new" to tell on the river front. There are plenty of fish scattered throughout the system and it continues to be a nice mix...

February 17, 2022

Hey guys, trying something new here. (Let me know at you think of this format?!?) These are actually screen recordings of my Instagram Reels, so those buttons (comment, like, share, save) don't actually work here, but the ones across the comment area at the...

February 13, 2023

Well, it's official, I'm soooooo far past due on an actual river report that I've resorted to stealing my eye candy from Donnie, Kam, Jake and Jad. (All the fish photos herein.) Outside of about one good week I had there I've been more...

January 21, 2023

Hey guys, long time... Just got back from our epic Argentina adventure on Wednesday afternoon, but I managed to pick something up on the way home or, as soon as I got here and haven't really felt up to doing much since. First off, not...

December 26, 2022

This is sort of a test… I hope you all had a Very Merry Christmas and it’s a Happy New Year! John has a fairly new report up here at this link for those of you that haven’t seen it yet. If you could do me...