Posing for the cool location - a cave with a underground water system.

Snorkling in a pristine and amazingly clear cenote (unground water system)

Had a 4 foot barracuda slash at my fly right near this spot.

Upper Peninsula Fishing Guide Musky and Smallmouth

Upper Peninsula Fishing Guide Musky and Smallmouth

Upper Peninsula Fishing Guide Musky and Smallmouth

Upper Peninsula Fishing Guide Musky and Smallmouth

Upper Peninsula Fishing Guide Musky and Smallmouth

Upper Peninsula Fishing Guide Musky and Smallmouth

Upper Peninsula Fishing Guide Musky and Smallmouth

Upper Peninsula Fishing Guide Musky and Smallmouth

Upper Peninsula Fishing Guide Musky and Smallmouth

Upper Peninsula Fishing Guide Musky and Smallmouth

Upper Peninsula Fishing Guide Musky and Smallmouth

Upper Peninsula Fishing Guide

Upper Peninsula Fishing Guide

Upper Peninsula Fishing Guide

Upper Peninsula Fishing Guide Musky and Smallmouth

Upper Peninsula Michigan Fishing Guide Musky Fishing Guide

20 incher and chunky

Whacked a 10 inch lure…. oh my.

Ol’ duck bill

Unit of a musky.

A small musky - but the first musky to slime my Hooligan Stealthcraft

Another view - this fish was caught TWICE in today days.

A medium musky that hit early in the day - this fish took a nice bucktail off of some woody structure.

This musky was my 2nd of the day - it hit on the very first cast of my Super Shad Rap in Yellow perch - great fun to catch this fish just feet from my raft.

This big girl wanted to play!

Sweet fish hit a figure 8 at my feet.

My first legit 20 inch smallie of the year. (actually measured!)

Pig of a smallie - tried to eat a 10 inch lure.

Monster pike. They almost never grow this large in the rivers that I fish. This was a super rare catch. So cool.

Keep them wet!

Tiny musky - but the first one of the year. Needed a picture for sure.

Beautiful sunset on the river.

Long drought since my last musky - then BOOM! 3 in a row. Great start to 2019

Big smallies in May! Love the nice fish after a long winter.

Small walleye - but very pretty.

First crappie of the year.

Just a small walleye - but it felt good to catch something.

Muskies are spawning - check out the side of this fish.

First smallie of the year!

Glorious walleye - crushed the jig!

Could that be the first 20 incher of the year?

Taking Melanie and Arabella out on the raft for the first time

Trout opener 2019!

Checking out Bond Fall’s - such a cool location to visit!

Big brookie from opening day of trout season in the Upper Peninsula

Stealthcraft Hooligan - scouting MUSKY spots!

About 100 yards from prime musky spawning grounds.

Always hunting for new water - love the aerials.

Who says little ones can’t be adventurous too?

Beautiful scenery ‘round here.

This musky smoked a smallmouth bait while waiting behind cover.

Custom rod tubes added to the frame - Can’t go wrong with more rods.

Little musky but a very pretty pattern on this girl.

Ice and rafts - combo made to endure :)

Hooligan Stealthcraft - practicing with the oars

Getting the raft ready - now the temps just need to rise a bit. Yes, that’s snow in the background.

Fly fishing from the front of the Hooligan raft.

Hooligan Stealthcraft sitting on the oars.

Beautiful scenery holding some beautiful fishing.

Posing with my girls

All THREE of my girls :)

Dark Waters Flies Seth with a nice bow

November 3rd! Fish are still biting!!!!!!!!!!

Close up of the bow - wish I had caught it!

19-20 inch fish :) Smashed a topwater whopper plopper. Check out my Youtube video showcasing this day on the water.

Seth from Dark Waters Flies with a Coho salmon from a Superior tributary - great fun today!

This fish whacked a whopper next to that sunken tree in the distance. Check out my Youtube video showcasing this day on the water.

Took a student fishing and we managed to catch a few of these toothy fish! So nice - high water is good fishing when you can find those pockets.

My dad with a huge smallie he pulled out of those rapids behind him. Such a nice fish.

Caught 5 musky this day - this one was the third smallest…. :)

Golden girl - love the awesome colors on walleye. Took a hellgrammite plastic from Nikko.

Another nice pic of the musky

Musky face mimicking my face.

Musky 31 - SO EXCITED!

This musky broke my musky rod. :(

My 30th musky of the year on a fly even!

Musky 30

BOOM - huge smallie! Love it.

This pike smacked a size 4 Mepps Agila in about 10 inches of water.

Smashed a whopper plopper cast right behind a midriver boulder.

I caught three walleye in like 3 casts - this was the first one.

First fish caught on the jointed rainbow trout.

Pretty little musky - was holding in less than 6 inches of water.

tied my personal best - 20.5 incher on a challenge bait. A floating Nikko Octopus soft plastic.

Nice big ol’ musky caught on the Mepps Musky Killer.

Musky; a dangerous weapon!

Lure Shot - Big Musky with a Size 4 Mepps Agila Silver Blade with Brown hair trailer

Time to portage - gotta go deep for a chance at big fish.

Fishing with Youtuber Fish Fray - this is a musky he caught - that I was handling.

Nice Wally decided to bite - middle of the day walleye bite!

Tiny musky decided to take a gander at what I was tossing.

My 5th tiger musky of the year - got it in a STREAM. Seriously.

Small musky - but my 24th of the year.

Snapping turtle in the middle of the rapids - so weird!

Nice little smallie.

Smallmouth bass - on the water

Big smallie that smashed a whopper plopper 130

Lunkerhunt Stealth Propfish smallie! Destroyed the lure.

Pretty scenery and a nice fish.

Chunky belly - lure shot with a baitball spinnerbait.

Big musky - not great photo. Wish I could have gotten a better shot of it.

Nearly 20 incher. Smashed a topwater rat fly

HUGE smallie - smashed a spinner.

This smallie was caught on a topwater rat pattern.

This pretty fish was hiding in the grass.

This pike died and was filleted up to be eaten by me. Only reason I took it home was because I couldn’t revive it.

Fat smallie. Crushed the rat lure.

Underwater pike. Notice the blood pumping from gills. She didn’t make it unfortunately.

First time ever filleting up pike. Very tasty fish.

This snapping turtle was attempting to EAT my smallmouth bass. Absolutely crazy!

Beautiful little bow.

Big smallie - odd color too!

Dam fishing for smallies!

Whopper Plopper smallie!

First ever fish on the Ned rig!

Dark Waters Fly Shop smallie - crushed a Rat-King fly

Another nice SMB on the Rat-King!

Beautiful NATIVE brookie!

Big smallie smoked a BBZ-1 rat 30 size in Morning dawn!

Okay smallie from a float on a new river today!

Nice big musky - found on a new river. Didn’t know this river even had musky!

19.75 inch smallie. Absolute tank crushed a BBZ-1 rat in 30 size in chrome coloration.

Personal best tiger musky - BEAUTIFUL fish :)

Not too big, but amazing colors.

Small tiger musky - caught on a river I didn’t even know had musky in it. Crazy. Smacked a topwater BBZ-1 rat.

Tiny musky swimming in the stream…

Just a little walleye that wanted to play.

Releasing a nice fish.

This was my 16th musky of the year - and she was chilling at my feet for a while after the release.

Whopper Plopper destroyer!

Clear distinction of a tiger musky… I think!

Nice chunky smallie release.

Nice underwater musky fish shot.

Menomonee River at Piers’ Gorge - such an awesome location!

This fish is a healthy 20 - or at least close to it.

True twenty inch smallie. Measured and everything

My first ever trout on a dry fly - at night to boot!

Hot diggidy dog!

Beaut smoked a spinner directly behind a huge rapid. Gotta fish for them in that moving water.

First ever brown trout!

This sweetie was a beast on my ultralight rod - thought I was fishing for trout :)

My personal best musky …. :)

My 10th musky this year - smoked a BBZ-1 rat size 40 in Morning dawn coloration.

Tiny musky from 3rd person view! It’s not size that matters!

Just a pretty little brookie

Fly fishing for musky and this chunk grabbed the fly!

Smallies for days!

Rainbow trout - first of the year I do believe!

Underwater tail shot of a pike. Thought this looked kind of cool and artsy.

Pig smallie - the biggest I’ve seen this year!

A pretty decent 17 incher that smashed a mepps size 5 red and yellow spinner.

A small musky, but a MUSKY!

Another 17 inch beast!

This one was near 20 inches I believe!

First musky ever on the fly!

Another look at my pig smallie

Weird musky with an odd mouth - 2nd musky on the fly!

First musky on the fly - second view of catch!

Okuma Savage Gear Eel v2 doing work!

Muskie - bad picture; good fish.

First big smallie on the BBZ-1 rat this year

Huge ol’ brookie!

Pike on huge magnum spook

Semi-fat pike!

Snapping turtle!

Very pretty little brookie - check out the halos.

This pike had about 10 largemouth bass chase it in with the lure - it was crazy.

First musky of the year.

First LMB of the year on a topwater spook.

Awesome smallmouth bass. Took a smash on the jig.

Smallmouth bass that crushed a trolled spinner.

Release picture of a sweet smallmouth bass that took a chartreuse crawdad rat-l-trap

Smallmouth bass - took a size 5 spinner in heavy flow. Nice fighter.

Waiting for lunch, tacos al pastor.

Kayaking in the mangrove cenote.

First Tarpon ever - and on the fly to boot!

Mexico sunset over the mangrove cenote

Melanie enjoying the evening breeze

My first fish ever in Mexico and in the salt water on the fly.

Happiness.

8wt fly fishing in the morning

Coral reef in Mexico outside of Tulum

Fishing - not catching.

First day - learning what to do.

Tarpon 1 or 2. On the fly - the Black Death Tarpon fly.

Pops and I enjoying the moment.

Needlefish that bite me good.

Melanie’s nearly PERFECT three dart throw. This will NEVER happen again. Beginner’s luck.

The spot where Melanie and I got engaged years and years ago.

Melanie yogaing in the morning.

A cool cenote we found.

Leaves bigger than my wife. Ha.

Jack with the guide.

Melanie yoga in the morning.