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Fly fishing in Michigan.

Live flows, rules, access maps and nearby guides.

  • 65waters
  • 27with a live gauge
  • 65designated
The Manistee River curving around a wooded island below forested hills
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The Manistee River, Michigan. Photo: Eric Schmuttenmaer, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

65 fly-fishing waters in Michigan have a page here, 27 with a live USGS flow gauge and 65 with an official agency designation (such as Blue Ribbon or Special-regulation trout water).

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12 fly-fishing guides and 14 fly shops in Michigan are listed, unclaimed unless marked. Destination hubs: Grayling & the Au Sable and Baldwin & the Pere Marquette.

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About the Michigan list

About this

65 Michigan rivers, creeks, lakes and flats with a page: each with its official agency designations and their source, live USGS flow where a gauge exists, the state’s regulations and access map, and the guides and shops nearby. Waters that cross into Michigan from a neighbouring state are included.

A Michigan water is here because the state agency lists it under an official designation, because guides and shops in our directories name it on their own websites, or because a live USGS gauge sits on a river a guide names. Species appear only where an agency page states them. “Most fished first” ranks by designations and by how many guide and shop websites name the water.

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