“The plan was to fish seven rivers in four days, so from the word “go,” we hit it early, and we hit it hard. We met Ethan Winchester, head of sporting operations at Boyne Resort and Boyne Outfitters, after checking into our little cabin in Boyne Mountain.

It was a pleasant and summarily exhausting blur of nonstop bushwacking into tiny creeks and secluded upper sections of pristine trout water, dry flies and streamers, wild trout, eating spartan lunches off our tailgate and bumping our way down dirt roads smelling the bracken ferns and tamarack pines. The history, the wild trout, the tiny friendly northern towns, the great food and most importantly the plentiful access to water make Michigan a true fly angler’s paradise. And, on only one river, in the seven we fished, did we run into another angler.”