Low and clear — careful approach country. Take your time — read the water before you cast.
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The Muskegon below Croton is a big, even tailwater that holds enormous numbers of steelhead and a heavy fall salmon run. Because the dam steadies the flow, it fishes when the freestones are blown or frozen, and the steelhead winter in it in good numbers — a drift-boat river where you can fish a long way and read the dam, not the sky.
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The Muskegon below Croton is a big, even tailwater that holds enormous numbers of steelhead and a heavy fall salmon run.
Low and clear — careful approach country. Take your time — read the water before you cast.
Live readings — water temperature is an estimate where the gauge does not record it.
Numbers are intensity 0 (none) to 3 (peak) — a guide, not a guarantee.
The Muskegon below Croton is a big, even tailwater that holds enormous numbers of steelhead and a heavy fall salmon run. Because the dam steadies the flow, it fishes when the freestones are blown or frozen, and the steelhead winter in it in good numbers — a drift-boat river where you can fish a long way and read the dam, not the sky.