Thinking Steel

Days Away from Pere Marquette Steelhead!

Michigan bound at the end of the week and starting to think about Great Lakes Steelhead. It’s been a few years since I’ve had the opportunity and I can’t wait to step back into the home waters of the Pere Marquette and give it a go. It’s been long enough that the chrome seems a little exotic and I’m not sure I remember exactly how to set up a steelhead rig but I’m sure it will all come back to me once I’m there.
This week will be spent splitting time between digging out and assembling old gear to prepare for the journey and tending to spring projects in the shop. We’ve got all kinds of cool new gear arriving daily so we’re in the process of rearranging things in the shop and Fred has been busy tending to projects around the property which aren’t as fun and exciting as new gear but which are equally as if not more important to making your stay with us this season a great one.
Join us tonight at the Blackfoot River Brewing Company in Helena for Community Pint Night where $1.00 of every glass of beer sold will go to benefit the Pat Barnes Missouri River Chapter of Trout Unlimited. I can’t think of a better way to raise money or a better way to contribute to a great cause. And speaking of Pat Barnes TU – the 34th Annual Banquet will be held on Saturday April 25th at 6 PM at The Gateway Center in Helena. Stop by Wolf Creek Angler and purchase your banquet tickets ($40 single, $75 couple) and while your at it purchase a raffle ticket or two for a 14′ NRS Otter Raft Package. Raffle tickets are $25.
If we get a spare minute this week we’ll be on the Missouri hopefully throwing streamers under cloudy skies with a chance for rain today and tomorrow and partly cloudy skies Wednesday and Thursday with temps in the 50’s and low 60’s. The weekend looks like beach weather with sunny skies and highs in the low 70’s – perfect weather for driving back to cold weather, steelhead weather, in Michigan.