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Mojo Fly Company - Top producing flies for Michigan & Great Lakes Steelhead. We offer top quality steelhead guide patterns tied on Daichii Hooks. Perfectly tied Stone flies, nymphs, and egg flies at great prices. Our flies are developed by top professionally endorsed fly fishing guides in the Great Lakes and Western Michigan rivers for Steelhead, Salmon, Trout and Smallmouth Bass.

Daichii & Tiemco Hooks: We offer anglers a wide spectrum of fly patterns for Great Lakes Steelhead tied on premium Daichii and Tiemco hooks. These hooks are strong and will not bend out when you have a Trophy Steelhead of a life time!

Clown eggs for Michigan Steelhead - For many years, Mojo Clown eggs have out produce all other fly patterns for Steelhead during the Fall and Winter months! Clown eggs imitate traditional egg flies with a twist... an array of colors! Inspired by the sherbet corkie, the Clown egg catches Steelhead in a variety of water conditions. This fly shines in high or murky water conditions. Smaller sizes are fantastic in clear or heavily pressured water by showing the fish something different!

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These flies also work great on Lake Erie's "Steelhead Alley" and Lake Erie Tributaries for Steelhead. We're coming out with a "Steelhead Alley" series of flies that include the Erie Sucker Spawn patterns, Erie Stones
and other down sized patterns for lake Erie Steelhead.

Muskegon River Fishing Report: Steelhead fishing on the Might Mo has been fantastic the past few days!! Water levels are now perfect for Winter Chrome. High water last week has brought in a fair amount of bright Steelhead from the lower river. Fly Fishing is producing over a fish and hour on most days!!
Steelhead are reacting to the colder water temperature and beginning to slow down a bit. We still have a few fish each day that jump while most are beginning to do the "Chubby Checker twist" or alligator roll. Winter Steelies are beginning to be found in traditional "Winter" water - slow, deep holes. Water temps are in the low-to mid 40's. We are still averaging well over a fish per hour drifting nymphs and egg patterns. .

February and March are the two biggest months for fishing Stone Flies for Steelhead. Both Muskegon River Steelhead and Brown Trout feed heavily on these tiny size 16 Stone Flies. Making for excellent chuck & duck fly fishing in March while drifting Stone flies. Spring Steelhead gorge on Stone flies in March and at times, only key in on this fly.


Things to Know about Great Lakes Steelhead:
Steelhead are anadromous- Meaning that they migrate from one body of water to another. Ex. Lake Michigan to the Muskegon River. Basically they are a huge Rainbow Trout the migrates to a river to spawn.

There are four main runs (Migrations of Steelhead)

Michigan Fall Steelhead - These fish make a run in late fall- Oct 15th - Dec 15th. For some reason these Steelhead enter in the Fall months and stay until Spring to spawn. Fall Steelhead are usually the most aggressive of all Steelhead. These are the ones that you read about that jump 5 feet out of the water!
Best Flies: Egg patterns, Nuke eggs, egg sucking leach, Swing Flies.

Great Lakes Winter Steelhead - Michigan Winter are Steelhead usually Fall Steelhead that have entered the river later, or in most cases, stage in the lower river to get a head start on Spring Spawning. Winter Steelhead live in the river during the Winter months and usually bite well. They also see a lot of fishing preasure so you need to be stealthy in your approach.

Best Flies: Egg paterns (Natural egg colors) Darks Nymphs such as Stone flies. Fly selections should be down-sized, smaller patterns work best for Winter Steelhead.

Michigan Spring Steelhead - Spring Steelhead can be any of the pervious, Fall, Winter, or Spring. Spring Steelhead are the larger females that have either held over, or entered the river in late February, March, April, or May. Males are usually colored (Green back, blood red stripe.) Hens (Females) are usually chrome or silver in nature. Spring steelhead are great fighters, but usually do not jump nearly as much as Fall Steelhead.
Best Flies: Egg paterns (Natural egg colors) Darks Nymphs, such as stone flies, Hex nymphs and Green Caddis, Steelhead buggers. These fish feed well just before beginning to spawn.

Spawning Steelhead - These are spring Steelhead that are in the act of Spawning. There is usually a single hen on a polished gravel patch (Redd) that the female has dug out from the rivers bottom. The hen is the fish in the center of the redd. The males (Bucks) are satellite males the move around the spawning redds challenging each other for the right to spawn. Some of these males are great biters.
Best Flies: Egg paterns (Natural egg colors) Smaller egg patterns. Darks Nymphs, such as stone flies, Hex nymphs and Green Caddis, Because the female is digging gravel, nymphs are and excellent choice at this time!

Spring Steelhead FlyFishing - This is when fly fishing is at it best, anglers can actually see the fish, and present the fly to the visable Steelhead. It is truly amazing to see a buck Steelhead actually hit a fly across the gravel. The best flies for these fish are usually dark nymphs, Stone flies, Hex nymphs, buggers, and leach patterns work well for Spring Steelhead. Egg flies also work great at this time!

Summer Run Steelhead - (Skamania Steelhead) Summer Steelhead usually enter the river systems around summer solstice, or a high water time around mid June or early July. Summer Run Steelhead are very aggressive at times. These fish almost immediately jump when they are hooked and are usually very chrome. Only a select few rivers in Michigan get a decent run of Skamania Steelhead. The Manistee River and the St. Joseph get the Largest runs. The Muskegon, Grand, and Pere Marquette River also receive a handful if conditions are right. These fish also winter over in the river but usually spawn earlier than the Little Manistee Strain (Winter-Spring Steelhead). Skamania Steelhead spawn in February-March. Little Manistee Spawn in late March, April, and May.
Best Flies: larger flies in Black and Purple. Swing Flies like the Egg Sucking Leach. Skamania also eat a lot of baitfish. Bi-polar Parr is also a good choice. Skamania also love egg flies.

Muskegon River Steelhead are much more active fly fishing in water temps above 36 degrees because Michigan Stone flies are most active during this same time frame.

Our Michigan Steelhead Guides have developed Great Lakes Steelhead fly patterns for Western Michigan's rivers. Top guide patterns for Steelhead on the Muskegon River, Pere Marquette River and Manistee River. Stone flies and egg patterns for Steelhead Alley and Lake Erie Tributaries.

Midwest Guides & regional experts sharing their most productive fly patterns for catching Steelhead, Trout, & Smallmouth bass throughout the Great Lakes region and beyond. Lake Erie rivers along the shorelines of New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. Steelhead Alley provides the best fly-fishing opportunity in the world today.