March Manistee River Fishing Report
Manistee River Report, March 20th 2018 Manistee River water level is 2000 cfs water temperature is 39 degrees. Well it’s been a typical march for Michigan 60 degrees one day and snow the next. Looks like long range forecast is calling for warming temps for the remainder of the month. Enough on the weather, steelhead […]
Manistee River Report Spring 2018
Manistee River Report March 1st, 2018. River report: Water flow is 2390 CFS, water temperature is 35 degrees. Spring is the air here in Northwestern Lower Michigan! The rivers are starting to come alive up here! I’ve been out fishing recently and have been catching a good amount of winter holdover steelhead along with some […]
Big Manistee River Fishing Report
Big Manistee River Fishing Report – Friday, October 27th, 2017 The fall steelhead season is well underway and let me tell you it has been a month to remember!!! Lots of big steelhead in the Big Manistee River this year, and good numbers of them! It’s been one of the best fall seasons in ten years […]
2017 Fall Steelhead
Fall steehead are here in northern Michigan! That means fall steelhead and salmon! The Manistee river thankfully had more king and coho salmon return to the system than the last several years. I’m starting to switch gears targeting steelhead. October and November should be great Michigan river fishing. Fall steelhead are my favorite game […]
Late Summer 2017
Big Manistee River Fishing Report: Late Summer 2017 The salmon run has started and late summer 2017 fishing has been a blast! This last week with the recent rainfall and wind has brought us some fresh king salmon into the river system. Our water temperature is in the upper sixties but with a few cold […]
Trout Time 2017
It’s trout season in Northern Michigan! This spring has been off to a cold start with plenty of rain, and the weather is starting to warm up nicely. Things are looking great for fishing resident trout and smallmouth bass on the backwaters of the Pine and Manistee rivers. I’ve been fishing alot crank baits […]
Spring 2017 Fishing
Spring 2017 Fishing on the Manistee River – Fishing Report March 17, 2017 Happy St. Patty’s Day! Spring 2017 fishing is here in northern Michigan, and the steelhead run is well underway. There’s a good mix of winter hold over fish and new one’s fresh in from Lake Michigan. I expect new fish […]
October Fishing
October Fishing!! Fall has arrived here in northern Michigan, and that means fall steelhead on the big Manistee river! We had a pretty good run of King salmon last month and they are making way there spawning areas. I’ve been targeting behind spawning kings and in the runs and pools. Spawn, beads. and flys have […]
Summer Fishing
Northern Michigan summer fishing is here! I’ve been doing a lot of fishing and guiding on the Big Manistee, the Pine River along with Tippy Dam backwaters for trout and small mouth bass. The fishing below Tippy on the Big Manistee river has been very good. Plenty of opportunities for the fly fishermen, with nice dry […]
April Fishing Report
Tippy Dam Tailwater April Fishing Report for the Big Manistee River in Wellston, Michigan. Spring weather has finally arrived and it’s been a interesting one at that! I have had pretty consistent steelhead fishing the last few weeks. Fish still have been trickling in and you have opportunities at them earlier in the mornings […]
