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Hottest Trout Rivers
Our Hottest Winter Trout Rivers
Need to get out of the house? The coolest cure for your cabin fever could be just down the road apiece. Yes, there are places here in Michigan where you can catch trout in flowing water right now! (Janaury 2006)
CENTRAL LAKE MICHIGAN
The northwest part of the L.P. is really blessed with many fine trout streams, and a good number of them are open in the winter.
The broad Muskegon River offers ice-free conditions between Croton Dam and Newaygo and has good numbers of browns and rainbows. You must release the browns in this reach, but you can keep rainbows over 10 inches. Trout fishing continues for a few miles below Newaygo, and here you can keep browns if they’re at least 15 inches long. Good access and launch ramps are found at the dam, Pine Street, Thornapple Avenue and, in Newaygo, at a city park.
You will also find catch-and-release winter fishing for browns upstream in the reach below U.S. 10 near Evart and in the Little Muskegon and Tamarack Creek, which flow into the Croton Impoundment.
Moving north, the White River below Hesperia offers catch-and-release fishing for browns, and the best fishing is found near Hesperia. It tends to freeze, so several days of mild weather are needed to make it fishable. The North Branch of the White is less likely to freeze and is open to fishing between the mainstream and Arthur Road.
