Manistee 8/19

[d-fresh]

The day started off badly. As we were getting ready to jump in the boat at the launch, we noticed our port/starboard lights were out. (Turned out to be a connection issue) We searched high and low in the dark with lights trying to resolve the issue, to no avail, so we stayed in the river until it was light enough to where we felt comfortable going out. We finally got lines set and started plucking away at fish. Most of our activity came in 140-180 FOW. Fish seemed to be scattered throughout the column as we took fish on 5 colors all the way down to riggers set at 100'. No setup really stood out, it was just steady action all morning. Green UV meat rig with a 10" show time spin doctor on a high diver and a moonshine flounder pounder plug on a full core were probably our best 2 producers. However, most of our fish came on meat rigs. I think we finished 15-17ish with 2 steelhead and good mix of kings/cohos.

[fishsniffer]

very nice..thanks for the report doug

[DIRTY DOG]

Nice job Doug.

[Sea Eagle]

Heading up that way in a couple of weeks. Glad to hear that the fishing remains strong. Thanks for the report.