mattmishler

The 22s work fine, I have 8 of them 2 walleye boards and 2 44s. They all pull fine.

water cleared up and had to go to other means of fish catching tools, most every single charter in manistee has 3 riggers, some have 4, we have 3 and one we use only for a probe rigger. I know when the rigger bite is on i wish we had 6, but most days its 3 early in the morning and i will be down to just two by the days end.

I wasnt naming names........

When the sun is high they dont alot of noise in the water, i go to 2 riggers and 2 divers and more lead core and copper, getting stuff away from the boat is a big thing. You will see when we go out i have about 20 rods out, i swich over to the more in there face kind of thing when the sun is going down. There is a thing about two many riggers and divers, i dont think there is to many lead and copper. Get your leads longer, SWRs, meat and being quite on the boat helps, no screaming the XM radio helps to

Way to early to think about that, we gotta last august lol

Fishing has been pretty good hear in manistee, been fishing the bank, north and south a few miles of straight out. It was mostly a spoon bite untill a few days ago and we had a couple fly bites. The spoon bite was mostly blue, blue dolphin, blue killer, mod blue dolphin, blue green dolphin and wondbread. These spoons were best on riggers and core/copper. The good news the fly bite is slowly turning on, ran a couple on my low divers and took a few hits yesterday and had 6 bites on flies with morning. Black hot chip flasher with a rapture ocean fly, blue bubble pro chip flasher with a lakeshore fly has been pretty good for me for the last 2 days. Oh NBK flasher with meat rig also went once. Riggers down40-70, lead 7-12, 300copper, high diver 100 to 250 and low diver back 140

6 tp 8ft seems to be what works for us.

riggers have been taking hits for me, i keep the bite going with longer leads and SWR. Spoons have been taking alot of fish for us.....but the fly bite is slowly taking hold, 3 bites yesterday and 6 today on flies

Nope ran them today to no problems, i usually run 8inchers on highs and 11 when the fly bite is on.

2 riggers,4 wire divers is my go to

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I wont be posting daily reports anymore, due to running trips daily and sometimes two a day. The fishing in manistee has turned on a bit, the offshore bite has been really good taking between 14-20 fish out deep. The bank fishing has been ok, not as good as the offshore, when you have to spend 200$ in gas to get out there the bank is still holding a few fish. The offshore bite was the top 50ft, stinger regular size double orange crush, craigs X-mas, jawbreaker, mixed veggies and steelie stomper were good on high cores. We were taking a few kings out there on our riggers with stingray NBK and blue whale. The bank baits were NBK prochip flasher with a hypnotist teaser rig on a low diver, NBK on rigger 50-90 down, blue whale 50 down, green dolphin,carmel dolphin and blue dolphin super glow on 7-12 color leads.

Nice job guys the fish kinda moved offshore a bit.

Nice job tony, cant beat a weekend like that!!!

Cuz 11inch paddles are way much more fun to reel in

Nice job tony, the lake welcomed you back very well with 3 big kings

I do run one a chute rigger with no problems, i fish on boats with 12.5 beams and 8'6 beams, the thing you have to do is not run them back more than 30ft off the ball and no closer than 12 to your next ball.

My best set ups for flashers are a 11inch back slick protroll hot chip with a rapture oceana fly, my other is a 11inch white fishscale protroll hot chip with a rapture hypnotist fly

I would go 200, we are doing the same thing right now, we have 4 10 colors and 2 300s i think we might just go with 2 more 300s

nice job terry, hes a lucky sob

Wednesday started off bumpy but the fish didn't seem care at all. I was fishing with Capt Tom from Sue Lee Charters, we headed straight out in 100ft of water and set rods, I never got all of the rods set until we had 4 fish in the cooler. Fish we coming on stinray caramel dolphins, area 51s and NBK on the riggers to start of the morning. The riggers were set 60,80,60, the 300 Copper took one fish with a regular size caramel dolphin. It was getting a little bumpy and people started to get sick, we made the call to catch one more fish then call it a day. The last fish came on a 5 color with a monkey shine spoon. Ended the day going 8 for 10, inside the harbor by 8:30am. Thursday was nice and flat, kind of wish the fish were a little bit more hungry, but oh well. We just picked at them all day, we really didn't have a early morning bite. 300 coppers went 2 times with regular size caramel, rigger down 60 with stingray NBK, full core with a modified green dolphin, full core w/ 2oz dive bomb with a blue dolphin. We did get one nice 10 pound trout on a prism silver dodger and green and yellow spin n glow banging bottom. Ended the day with 7 hits and 6 fish.

Thanks ok i will tell him you said "hello"

Yes i agree with mark, we go from smaller spoons move to stingray size spoons then to flashers and few plugs, by the end of season its all big flashers and plugs with no spoons.