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  • Trout Season

    Its time for Trout with Terrestrials and Tricos. Start your day off with cooler temps on the Manistee for Brown and Brook Trout. Half-days are ideal for this time of year and it gets you back to the family in time for lunch.

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  • Learn To Fly Fish

    Book a half-day and tailor it to learning how to fly fish. Perfect for beginners but also for those with experience wanting to learn a new technique, approach, or simply want too improve. We aim to make the day about you and providing a foundation of skills you can immediately put into practice and build on. Gift Certificates for these and all trips are available.

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  • Fall Steelhead

    Finish the fishing season with a trip chasing fall steelhead on the lower Manistee river. Good dates remain in November and into December.

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  • Booking all seasons in 2026

    Be sure to get your time on the water reserved. It is often easier to plan life around a fishing trip that’s been scheduled rather than try to fit a half or full-day trip around life. Now booking all seasons in 2026.

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  • Trout Season

    Trout 2020 Slider

    Its time for Trout with Terrestrials and Tricos. Start your day off with cooler temps on the Manistee for Brown and Brook Trout. Half-days are ideal for this time of year and it gets you back to the family in time for lunch.

    Trout Fishing
  • Learn To Fly Fish

    Learn to Fly Fish Slider

    Book a half-day and tailor it to learning how to fly fish. Perfect for beginners but also for those with experience wanting to learn a new technique, approach, or simply want too improve. We aim to make the day about you and providing a foundation of skills you can immediately put into practice and build on. Gift Certificates for these and all trips are available.

    Learn more
  • Fall Steelhead

    Slider_Fall_Steelhead_25

    Finish the fishing season with a trip chasing fall steelhead on the lower Manistee river. Good dates remain in November and into December.

    More on Steelhead
  • Booking all seasons in 2026

    Slider_ Streamer and Brown

    Be sure to get your time on the water reserved. It is often easier to plan life around a fishing trip that’s been scheduled rather than try to fit a half or full-day trip around life. Now booking all seasons in 2026.

    Seasons
Come experience Northern Michigan's great fly fishing!
— Guide trips for all levels of experience —
Fly fishing for spring steelhead in the Manistee River near Traverse City Michigan

Spring Steelhead

Trout Fishing Manistee River near Traverse City Michigan

Trout

King Salmon Fly Fishing - Betsie River Near Traverse City

Salmon

Northern Michigan Fly Fishing Report

Fishing Report

Carp Fishing West Grand Traverse Bay

Golden Bones / Carp

Fly fishing for smallmouth bass Manistee River and Northern Michigan Lakes

Smallmouth Bass

Fly fishing for fall steelhead in the Manistee River near Traverse City Michigan

Fall Steelhead

About Ted Kraimer Fishing Guide

About Your Guide, Ted Kraimer

Current Works is the fly-fishing guide service of Ted Kraimer and is operated with the idea of getting you into the most enjoyable and best fishing around. With so many species to choose from, four seasons to fish in and different watersheds, all within an hour’s drive of Traverse City, you will come to learn why Field & Stream magazine has recently named this area as one of the Top-10 best fishing towns in America.

Spend a day floating the Upper Manistee River in a drift boat casting dry flies to selective trout, bouncing nymphs for Steelhead and Salmon on the Betsie River or the Big Manistee river bellow Tippy Dam in a Jet Sled, stripping streamers & poppers for Smallmouth Bass on the Manistee, wade fishing on the Boardman river or stalking Golden Bones (carp fishing) on the flats of Grand Traverse Bay – you will understand what makes this area such a great place to fish.

Take a moment and learn more about our fish, seasons and services by clicking through this website.

Ted Kraimer • Current Works, LLC • PO Box 333 • Traverse City, Michigan 49685 • (231) 883-8156

Guided fly fishing trips in Northern Michigan and Traverse City on the Manistee, Betsie and Boardman Rivers with guide Ted Kraimer.

Ted Kraimer • Current Works, LLC • PO Box 333 • Traverse City, Michigan 49685 • (231) 883-8156

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