10-10-10 Fishing Report

Wow the fall colors are something else this year!!!!! 0-4 for fall steelhead to my net this year so far. The Big Man is picking a few more on the steel side but mostly skippers as of right now. As you can see my prediction of a late run is right on track with peak like numbers coming in staging for a drink of higher water. Lots of nice looking trout rustling behind spawning fish. If you think you missed the salmon run it is still here in full force, with a rumbling of steelhead soon after a nice rain.



MSU Forestry Prof. (Larry) had a great day on the P.M. Go Spartans

Kathrin was one of my best first time anglers ever in my boat

Kathrin is also a MSU student, yesterday was a good day for the green and white

Kathrin with a big head shaking female, well done!

Great father - daughter day

Fall colors are post card like

Craig karate chopped this nice male! (he is a karate instructer)

Former principal Tom got his groove going nicely the other day in the lower p.m.

Nice group of friends enjoying there salmon week, Mike V, Tom, and Craig

Lee is as young as ever,, had a great couple day's hooking kings with me

The blue bird day's have been great but we could use some liquid from the skies

As Lee would say he is lucky that only the good die young!

Dr. Nash and Arnold join me for a late float and Arnold hooks up with his first king

John and Big Bill have a day off from the office and tee off on some high end king fishing

2nd of 3 landed doubles of the day

Kings have been liking Green Caddis

The Federated Boys put up some numbers on a cold Oct. morning

Les represents MSU with a nice king

Les and Al enjoying a great day on the P.M.

Al with a smallish king.....

Roger with a head shaking male

Finally Bill Says, actually one to the net,,,fresh kings are hard to land

Jon Kolehouse from www,riversbendguideservice.com. enjoying his new StealthCraft

Dean and dad cash in on some fun kings

Peach was the yarn of choice a couple days ago

Mark and Justin on a great trip fishing

Marky is dialed in on kings

Not bad for your first time salmon fishing

I have a few clutch October dates open: Oct 20,24,29-31

See ya on the creek

Captain Mike

231-745-4401

mike@baldwincreeklodge.com

9-30-10 Fishing Report

Hi guys fishing is still as I said earlier int the last report about 2-weeks behind the norm. Believe it or not with the flooding just west in Wisconsin we never really got much of that rain, we are still low and clear and in need of H20 to really get the run rocking like the old days. But overall there are plenty of fish around and enough for everyone to have some fun. We hooked a nice chrome steel in the lower river yesterday and there should be more to come. If your looking for some fall steel , or some late king- coho (on our secret river) fishing my schedule does not open back up until Oct.20,21,28,29
Captain Mike
231-745-4401
mike@baldwincreeklodge.com



Doc Bell with a lower river rod-ripper, I love making kings BITE

Doc Bell with his first lower river king of the morning!

Jerry with one of his many of his trip

Fall colors and sunset's,,,Nature's Splendor

Wife and husband team

Cris with her first king landed on a fly rod

Salmon will eat fly's

Cris with a nice male Chinook

Fall colors are here

Big Bill lands a nice king

Tim lands a nice king and takes a pic with his son's blue fish toy, you always have to remember the little one's!

John with a small king

Tom with a nice fish

Who says people from Ohio can't fish




See ya on the creek

9-19-10 Fishing Report

As far as a fishing report goes, if your pretend that that it is 2 weeks early the salmon run makes complete sense. We are still fishing the lower river and finding sporadic fish some days better than the others, depending on rain weather etc. Just remember the 2 week rule on planing on areas to fish and you will be in good shape. There will be a ton of kings around well into the middle of October.

See ya on the creek,
Captain Mike
231-745-4401
mike@baldwincreeklodge.com


Hamid and boys with a rod ripper today

The boys are getting dialed in on fishing for salmon

Pike are always fun!


Greg with his first king....

Pro. Kevin with his first king fishing this way

Matt finally breaks his no-king slump

Matt and I enjoying a fun day in the lower river

Matt and dad with a chromer

Mike V with his first chromer of the day

Matt with his first king

Joe Reed celebrating a day on the lower p.m with me and the Sweet Lynnie II

Joe with a chrome king on his favorite color PERCH

Dan with his first chrome king

Joe with a dandy fly rod king

Dan with his second king of the morning

Caution all lures kings are mean!!!Hearbreak hotel for that angler

Jeff P. with a nice lower river king

Jeff with his first king of the morning

See ya on the river
Captain Mike

Ella Has Come in With the Kings!!!

If I would have measured here she would have been 20" but we could only squeeze 19" out of her!


There is mom with a drug free natural labor,,Well done Babe!

Thank God Dr. Gentry is a Packers Fan!!!! Nice Pull Dr. G.

Smaller for being almost 4 days late, She was born 9-8-10 @ 11:19p.m.

Dad with my future fisherwoman Ella Catherine Batcke

Back to fishing we have been hitting some fish in the lower river on plugs and big streamers

Joe lands this smaller chromer after loosing a real giant

Browns are starting to hit Eggs, Creston lands a couple nice browns fly fishing for Kings on the Big Man...

This fish was a great payback from a very windy weekend, nuke egg eating king....

Creston gets his king groove on finally after going 0-25 last year

Dave W, Dad and Sister fish with me in the rain but we had a great sendoff to CA. Love you guys,, Best luck to you guys in California

Steve W. lands his second mouse fish last week

Steve lands his first mouse fish

Big Dan lands a great Bow on a mouse...

Whatever you want to do this is a great time to do it......

I have a couple open days this month,,, I just had the weekend of the 18-19 cancel and I still have the 14-15 open from Dan R. days canceling.....

Hope to see you guys this fall

Captain Mike

231-745-4401

mike@baldwincreeklodge.com