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The Pine is Heating Up for Streamer and Nymph Fishing!
The Pine is currently running very low, but with a decent stain. Streamers has been extremely productive this past week even in the bright sun. Moderate sized flies have been the best with black, yellow, white,
It’s Time to Get Out and Go Trout Fishing!
After another week of warm, dry weather the Manistee is starting to round into shape and trout fishing is picking up. The river is still a little higher than normal for this time of year, but looks great.
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June is the month that offers trout anglers some of the best technical dry fly fishing of the year. Lots of emergences and spinner falls and unanswered questions that keeps the headlamps at the ready and fly flotant flowing. For those looking for a more casual approach to fly fishing
Trout fishing this spring has been a challenge on the Upper Manistee. After a cold start, we have finally had some extended warmth and this has helped our hatches, causing more fish to look up. It’s been bug soup the past week with the last few Hendrickson spinners finishing up
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I think my last post speaks for itself when it comes to Memorial Day so I’m not going to go much further into it other than to say that I hope you all enjoyed your extended weekend, but even more so, I hope that you took at least a little
Hey guys, I know that when I posted the link to John’s latest report on Tuesday to our social media sites, I mentioned that I would post myself either on Thursday or Friday so, here it is, but probably not the one you were expecting…
Turns out I’ve been busier
It’s been a while since the last report and quite honestly this has been the most difficult start to spring fishing that I’ve seen in a long time for trout. The flooding and worm flow events shuffled the deck and gorged the fish. I spent a significant amount of time
The cooler May and lack of sunshine has stalled the progression of hatches and good trout fishing. With some warm weather ahead the hatches should improve with streamer fishing when the bugs aren’t around. Bass and bluegill have moved into the shallow waters of most lakes with a mix of