He swung for steelhead under city bridges and strip flies for kings in water warmer than most trout would tolerate, all while filming every cast along the way.

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Christian Gradosky brings a raw boots on the jet sled deck perspective of Michigan fly fishing from the

gravel choked runs of the Muskegon to the gritty concrete face currents of the Grand River

where steelhead stack below freeway overpasses. In this episode, we'll talk about why

stripping streamers for salmon and steelhead might be more effective than you think and what glow

headed flies can trigger in cold water here he is christian grudowski you can find him at

christian underscore gradowski on instagram how you doing christian good how's it going dave very good man

it's so cool to have you on here um you know we was talking to some listeners of the podcast, and we were just talking about swinging flies and Steelhead and the Great Lakes, specifically. We have a ton of people. They're either in the Great Lakes or they're around the country and, you know, and want to go out there and fish. I think it's pretty cool because you guys have a ton going on. You're up in Michigan. We're going to talk about salmon, steelhead today, maybe some other species and everything.

But, you know, we're going to talk about your guiding and all that. But maybe just take us back real quick, just where we are today, you know, we're kind of July. August is right around the corner. What are you up to this time of year?

So currently right now, we're running a lot, a lot of bass trips.

That's mostly what it is.

Our trout waters are kind of shut down due. time of year. So currently right now, we're running a lot, a lot of bass trips. That's mostly what

it is. Our trout waters are kind of shut down due to the heat. I think on average, they're sitting

at like 67 to 72 degrees. So that is not a happy habitat for trout. So it's mostly the small mouth

jam. We've been doing pretty good. I've been running the Meskegon if people are familiar in the Grand River. Nice. So it's been a lot of fun this summer. We've had a lot of good top water because the water's been so low. So it's been entertaining as a guide to be able to just watch something all day, not just strip streamers. Right, right. That's awesome. and is now the Muskegan and the Grand, how far, because there's a few different grands out there, which, how far a part of these rivers that we're talking about here, the Grand, the Muskegon? So the Grand River flows right through Grand Rapids, goes out to Grand Haven, then it goes all the way up to Lansing and the little tribs that flow in. And then the Muskegan's about an hour north on 131 up in like New Wago is like the center capital of it for most people like recognize the Muskegon as New Wago. Okay. Yeah. And so yeah, this is not the Grand. There's the Grand River. Well, there's a few different grands, right? Have you fished any other Grand Rivers around the, around the States? Not around the States. The Grand in Grand Rapids is the only Grand I have fished. Okay, cool. Yeah, because you've got the Grand that's up in Canada. You got the grand that's down on the South Shore Lake Erie. Yes. And I'm sure there's some other ones, too. but we the ground. We're talking about Michigan today, so this is great. And we're going to get into Steelhead and a little bit of that. And it's pretty interesting because I'm coming hot off Chinook, which I think today we'll talk about that a little bit. I just got back from really my first real big trip in Alaska fishing for Chinook and swinging. So, so did I. Oh, cool. So we can talk about

this a little bit. So it was pretty amazing to get the feel. And we could talk about that, right, the chewing the gum. George Cook has been on the podcast number of time he's talked about, you know, let him chew the gum. And finally, I had a Chinook on the end that was chewing the gum. And it's this really crazy feeling when you got to you got to do it just right and set the hook just right

or you kind of pull it out of their mouth now first, first off, where were you at in Alaska? And then we'll get into Michigan a little bit. Yeah, so I was over with the KTL, Katmy Trophy Lodge crew. I was filming content for them out there. So they brought me out for like a week and a half, two weeks to come film. And I got to

pull on some kings and the knack, which was really, really cool. Wow. So you got in the neck,

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