Upper Manistee River Trout Fishing Report

Open Trout Dates:

Chuck Hawkins - March 18, 29 & April 1

Ed McCoy - March 10 April - 4-5,22,26-27,30

March 8th, 2010

Rarely will you ever go out and streamer fish with great success with snow on the ground and ice on the pond, but we had to do something different. Steelhead fishing has been tough giving good reasons to break out other gear and boy it was sure fun NOT roll casting for an afternoon. We saw NO fishermen, NO other boats, yet the day was FULL of solitude... Go Figure!?!?! Best areas were those areas that have proven themselves time and again, but we did see a couple of fish in "Nameless" water. Bring a new rotator cup and plenty of back cast, you'll need it throwing the Tuna baits we like this time of year; but be ready to be paid in full at some point.... You just never know when "HE" is coming for it!!

All Trout Streamer Trips this spring are $325 versus Steelhead Trips that are very productive and $375... We love to see fish chase our stuff to the boat that much!! There are other open pieces of water besides the Trout Sections and they are ready to cough up a good fish or two before the Opener even shows. Book a trip and get us off the steelhead train for a day, I am sure you will love your results, with or without some fish!! Call Cherie at 231-228-7135 to get Booked & Hooked Up with some quality spring fishing..............T

March 4th, 2010

19 inch brown drilled a small olive sculpin, 3/4

I got to sneak away fro a day and a half float with my son Zach and good friend Steve on the Upper Manistee yesterday and today. Water temps are frigid, starting at 33 degrees at 10:00 am and climbing to around 37 degrees. It made for some very tough fishing. We saw a good number of very healthy looking toads but had difficulty getting eaten. Saw a few stones hatching, incredible number of deer and had two beautiful floats.

It feels like the river is a week or two away from really waking up. We have a few days available in March if you want to try for some of the big boys before the traffic picks up.

Next photo I'll remember to smile!!

Hawk

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USGS 04124000 MANISTEE RIVER NEAR SHERMAN, MI

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Discharge, cubic feet per second
	Most recent instantaneous value: 1,720   03-12-2010  08:30 EST     Create presentation-quality / stand-alone graph parm 00060 DD01
	Daily discharge statistics, in cfs, for Mar 12 based on 90 years of record more Min (1940) 20th percen- tile Median Mean 80th percen- tile Most Recent Instantaneous Value Max (1992) 806 892 1020 1100 1290 1,720 1830

Gage height, feet
	Most recent instantaneous value: 13.51   03-12-2010  08:30 EST     Create presentation-quality / stand-alone graph parm 00065 DD02

Temperature, water, degrees Celsius
	Most recent instantaneous value: 5.7   03-12-2010  08:00 EST     Create presentation-quality / stand-alone graph parm 00010 DD03

Dissolved oxygen, water, unfiltered, milligrams per liter
	Most recent instantaneous value: 11.4   03-12-2010  08:00 EST     Create presentation-quality / stand-alone graph parm 00300 DD05