WALLOON LAKE, MI – When it will come to fly fishing in Northern Michigan, there might be absolutely nothing more iconic than casting a line into rivers and streams frequented by popular American author and sometimes-summer time resident Ernest Hemingway.
As component of the area’s 12 months-lengthy “Hemingway Homecoming” celebration, Resort Walloon on Walloon Lake is offering visitors a unique fly fishing package deal that comes full with accommodations and a guided half-working day or full-working day journey led by True North Trout.
The hotel special is built to get people out on the h2o, either with a stroll-in or float excursion encounter, and carry them back again to simpler situations, as loved by Hemingway in this very same region of Northern Michigan.
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“This planet-renowned outdoorsman cast his 1st line – very likely from a easy cane pole – in the quiet waters of Northern Michigan not considerably from his family’s beloved summer cottage, Windemere, on Walloon Lake,” explained Dianna Stampfler, president of Advertise Michigan. “It was right here, ‘Up In Michigan,’ the place Ernest identified his appreciate of fishing and where by he afterwards drew inspiration for a lot of of his later on adventures and the stories that adopted – specifically all those in The Nick Adams Stories, which was revealed posthumously in 1972.”
Facts of the Fly Fishing package deal:
- Overnight friends can appreciate a 25% price reduction on a guided 50 % working day wander-in wading or float journey, or a entire working day float vacation, for 1-2 persons.
- Packages can be booked spring, summer months and drop 2021, centered on program availability.
- To check out pricing or ebook an right away Fly Fishing Package with Resort Walloon, connect with 231-353-5000 or pay a visit to HotelWalloon.com.

Sitting down along Walloon Lake, Lodge Walloon is a 32-room boutique lodge. Photograph furnished by Hotel Walloon.
Brian Kozminski, a Correct North Trout guideline, in fact portrayed the author in the fishing scenes of George Colburn’s documentary “Young Hemingway.”
“It is truly exclusive to me to fish Horton Creek, the Pigeon River or other waters in this spot and know that doing so clears my thoughts just as it did for Hemingway 100 a long time in the past,” said Kozminski, who has been fly fishing Michigan waters for above 30 yrs.
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