Little South
I thought about my grandfather, Jake Lucas, while fishing the Little South Branch of the Pere Marquette River this morning. I got up at 4:30 and left the house by 5. There was a sliver of moon in the night sky. I ran up the 131 expressway and got off at 19 Mile Road just past Big Rapids. If you take 19 Mile west it eventually turns north, switches into gravel and back to blacktop, veers west, and dead ends onto Foreman Road. There are a couple of two-tracks leading to the river off Foreman Road. This is where Jake used to take my brothers and me, when we were kids, for trout. It is generally shallow, easy to wade, and loaded with brown trout.
I didn’t know what to expect as far as stream conditions and stream conditions are everything. I hit it right. The water was high and tea-colored. It even drizzled a bit. I had two dinner trout in ten minutes but tossed them back. Trout were everywhere and aggressive. After catching a couple more I decided I had better start keeping some because you never can be sure if the fishing will go south on you. Sorry about the pun. I kept four trout, around 13 or 14 inches. Caught at least ten. Back at the truck I sent a photo to the guys and headed back to town. What a morning.
Fichigan 
Sounds like a great day!