Manistee 8/27

[tltorrice]

Very nice day on the water today. Started @ 5am 135 fow. Warm water down to 90 feet. Slow start only two fish before first light on glow stuff. Area 51 & white glow meat rig with a small white glow fish catcher. As it got light we just slowly picked away at them. We worked our way to the south and continued to mark fish in the 135 range. When we got off the water around 3pm we had 8 fish. Not the 3 man limit we had hoped for but a nice box. Got some food then back on the water by 7 til well after dark. We ran to the north to stay away from the crowds. Once we got the glow program going it was fast action. We had 4 fish in the box and lost at least another 4 and two meat rigs and flashers. When I looked at the graph we were at 478 fow.

We have been here fishing all week. Got out every day except Tuesday and caught fish every day. On Tuesday we could not fish because of the weather so we went up to Tippy Dam. We checked the dumpster at the fish cleaning station. It was 1/4 full of Salmon. So it looks like the fish are in the rivers now as well.

[Adam Bomb]

Nice job Tom, great report.

[GLF]

Nice job Tom!

[Just Hook'n]

Nice report Tom. 478fow. HOLY COW. I was not aware it got that deep out there that fast. How far off shore was that?

[tltorrice]

Mark, we took a NW heading out of the port of Manistee and set down in 120 fow and pointed the bow tward the sun. (West) At our furthest point we were about 8.5 miles from the port. The lake starts to drop off in that area to over 700 feet. The nice thing is we were the only boat out there. We had a freighter flash its lights at us as we were pulling lines!

[SUPERTRAMP]

Great place to fish and the only drawback is the nets. Glad to hear u got the program working. 478 is not that far out up there it drops fm 60' staight off to over 300' on the shelf and 478 is out in the shipping channel less than 7 miles out. In the 1980's we fished that area a lot for Steel head on the trash lines that form on the temp breaks.

[fishsniffer2]

Nicely done Tom

[tltorrice]

I have a pretty clear understanding of the nets, and have them marked on my GPS. There are only 5 nets now and they are to the south of the port. One good thing about the nets is they do provide some structure that attract bait fish. I don't fish them that closely, and I don't let them stop me from working an area. A few years ago there were a lot more.

[mayvillemark]

Nice job Tom very nice!

[Priority1]

Ya play hard Tom. GJ

[2UNREEL]

Nice job Tom, sounds like fun!