Big manistee river

[HOOK N WOOD]

Went up to the Big MANISTEE RIVER this past weekend to do some center pinning for some chrome, the river was some what clear we didn't catch any steelies just browns. we fished out of the Bear Creek access and launched at the tippy dam boat launch. only seen 1 steelie on a stringer all day roughly 11 hours of fishing. talked to several guides and they thought it would be a tough year for steelhead fishing due to the hard winter we had last year and all the steelies that were caught out in lake Michigan this year in shallow water. we tried spawn, jigs with wax worms and even got desperate and pulled plugs for a while.

[Nailer]

Thanks for the update Jason. Sounds like a tough bite.

[Priority1]

Jason, Nice work on the Big Manistee. 11hrs.??? You're more of a diehard than I am.

[jay d]

we fished out of manistee sat on the big pond,out in 140 fow and 6 of the 9 fish we caught had ben in the river this fall and returned to the lake allready.they had some awsome colors and the 3 males had big ole kipes on em and one of the hens had loose spawn.thats more than we have ever caught this time of the year that had droped back to the lake allready.