Fishing Reports

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

June 27, 2022

Short days and long nights best describes my current state of mind.  I am running to get ready for my trip today, so this is going to be brief and more of a pictorial report....The shop is open everyday from 8am - 6pm.  Please...

June 28, 2023

Shop Hours are 8am to 6pm Daily Late nights and short days best describes the current situation.  Hexes have been hatching well on most nights, but absent a couple cold/rainy evenings.  There has been some highs, lows, great victories and tough loses..."Hexin' ain't easy!"  It's...

December 17, 2018

Hey guys, I'm still alive! I have a couple of announcements to toss out here and the "fishing report" portion of this will be rather short as I have not spent all that much time on the water recently, but yesterday was fun with Rob...

December 5, 2022

New Shop Hours: 9am - 5pm Wednesday - Monday, Closed on Tuesday! Save big on your next big purchase, a number of smaller ones or, make it a fantastic gift for the angler in your life! It’s that time again!! As our way of...

March 27, 2019

Spring is slowly peeking out!  I spotted my first robin a couple days ago and the fish are starting to spawn a little more.  We still have very cold water...in the mid 30's for the time being, but the temps should rise over the...

April 9th, 2019

BBT’s PM River Cleanup is Saturday, April 20th. Mark your calendar and details to follow... My next available open days are April 17 & 18, but we have other guides available on other days as well! This report is coming to you from the river...

February 8, 2024

Shop Hours 9am to 5pm Daily It's been WAY TOO LONG since my last report.  Very busy fall and tough conditions were not motivating me to post.  The fishing picked up and is heading in the right direction as Spring approaches.  We just had a...

March 13, 2021

03/13/2021 - 6:00am update to below: NEWS FLASH! We have two guides that opened up for Sunday. John Robinson and Kam, Donnie has the 16th, 20th - 24th, 27th & 28th. Kam also has the 23rd and 25th... The water was clearing rapidly in the...

December 9, 2020

Have you, or anyone you know, been contemplating a new rod, reel, waders, fly line, jacket, etc. or do you even just purchase some flies, lures, terminal tackle or tippet throughout the year? Why not do it on a discount!?!? As is our tradition we...

October 6, 2018

New fish continue to enter the system and it looks like we should be good on Kings into the third week of October for anyone interested.