Fishing Reports

Pere Marquette River fishing reports for trout, salmon, and steelhead by the guides from Baldwin Bait & Tackle.

November 11, 2024

Shop Hours 8am - 6pm Daily It has been a very fun week of guiding the Pere Marquette River for fall steelhead!  Great conditions and fun clients in the boat.  There are fishable numbers of steelhead throughout the river system at this point...covering water is...

November 4, 2024

Shop Hours are 8am - 6pm Daily Well, it's finally November!!!  Fall and winter steelhead fishing is here and happening!  The river is still very low and clear, but it has been raining on and off today.  Plus, the forecast has rain in the area...

October 31, 2024

Hey guys, just realized it's been a minute since I've posted on here yet again. If you follow my Instagram or Facebook pages and/or the shops Facebook and Instagram pages then you have likely seen much but probably not all of this and if...

October 24, 2024

Shop Hours are 8am - 6pm Daily Last Saturday we hosted our annual Fall River Clean-Up and it was very well attended!!!  A huge "THANK YOU!" to all of those individuals that participated in the event!  It's wonderful to see so many people that "walk...

October 16, 2024

New Shop Hours Are 8am to 6pm Daily! First and foremost, I want to remind everyone that we will be hosting our annual Fall River Clean-Up this Saturday, October 19th! We will meet at the shop at 8am to figure our float/boat or walk in assignments...

October 8, 2024

Shop Hours 7am to 7pm Daily We are hosting our Fall River Clean-Up on October 19.  Please contact the shop if you are planning on attending (231-745-3529).  We will be meeting at the shop at 8am to figure out beats and fill seats in boats....

October 2, 2024

Hey guys, it's well past "my turn" again on this whole reporting thing, but once again, I'm pretty sure John covered most of it all in his report here... We've been having a pretty darn good season overall if you knew what part(s) of the...

September 30, 2024

Shop Hours are 7am to 7pm Daily We finally received a couple days of heavy rains last week!  The river rose and colored up for a few days...we needed that for sure!  It certainly shuffled the deck and brought in some more fish.  The river...

September 22, 2024

Shop Hours are 7am - 7pm Daily Well, it finally rained and it rained hard all day today!  We will see what that will do, but it certainly had the fish moving all day in the section John R and I were fishing today!  Plus,...

September 20, 2024

Edit: I actually wrote this "report" while on the river this morning and planned to post if from there. My signal and some fish had different ideas... I was going to write a big report with lots of details and what not, but it turns...