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Pere Marquette Fishing Report Aug 29th, 2010
Tom McGraw putting some inches on the board after dark both here and the Mani........Pretty average fish for us this year!! Fishing remains SOLID for all those seeking Trout and even Kings, minus the mouse scene when the moon comes up lately... It has been very bright lately!! Water levels are back down to some mouse friendly status, but the moon has been big limiting the action for a few short hours later or earlier, depending on how you look at it. Fishing pressure is a little higher down low where they are throwing hardware and lead at the incoming Salmon, and there are enough to target it would seem. Middle sections are reporting a couple Kings banging around in "Ginkable" numbers, but most are just throwing GUTS & THUNDER lower so far,,, from what I have heard from fellows fishing down there. Nymphing has been great this season and pays whenever you break it out, as does the continuing Trico Hatch!! Hopper fishing is there if your willing to "Go The Distance", but if your inside spitting distance, the fish are turning up their noses at you.... THE BANK IS WHERE THE MONEY IS AT!!! Mouse fishing this season has been a little disappointing considering the great start we had, but you can attribute that to the consistent thunderstorms we have been receiving once, if not twice a week since the end of June!! Water levels return to normal for a day or two before blowing out and coloring enhancing the streamer fishing and almost killing the Waking Game!! The cover becomes the midday mud while they clean up on the best Crayfish population I have seen in years, and for a side, plenty of worms that are rolling down the river each and every time we get rain, with or without water rise!!! Hoping for a finale on a marginal, to maybe par season this year late in the game, so keep your fingers crossed. Water levels look very good this up and coming week, and as the hunger builds so will the inches. On the other side of that coin, up until one week ago when they got a "Biblical" rain Russell said; the Upper Mani has reported above par fishing this year, and looking at the graphs for the summer, it coincides with a very dry and low river enhancing that "HUNGER!" Managed to get up there a few times with clients and score good, but Eddy has been doing well all summer up there!!! Daytime Hopper, Nymph, and even Egg fishing will do nothing but improve between now and the early part of October and the Trico, and other assorted emerging bugs will keep the morning interesting while your waiting for the banks to warm up. Haven't seen any Eggin Possibilities yet this year, but that is just around the corner!! Very positive inches of trout can be scored during that time, and the best Stream Brown I have even put a client on, wasn't on a Mouse, or even a Hex.... It was an egg fishing behind some Kings.... 28" 7.5lbs and burping eggs all over the boat!! Visual is what that fishery is, and if you have the eye, you can score some serious inches!! Better hoppers this whole summer have been darker bodied ones and nymphs have been all over the board but productive.... check out WWW.GORUCKSUMMER.COM and click on a very nice fish I popped while doing an interview this summer, which I will have up here in no time............. Even Fat Kids get lucky!!! September has never been a real tough season to book for us in Michigan thanks to the fresh water tuna that cram up the streams for the novice to advanced angler, and though they pull hard and even break rods, they are adolescent and immature fish that will wither and die the longer they stay in the stream because they can no longer feed... Browns on the other hand feed like there is no tomorrow stacking calories for their up and coming spawn and bloom like a flower with vibrant reds, oranges, whites and even golds and some are old enough to drive a car and deserve as much or more attention as the KINGS!! Likely we will fill our Septembers with children and wives looking to bend a fly rod for the first time within a small army of people looking to do the same, but as long as we have open days, they can be booked with the "Trout Bums" looking to get their fix a few more times before the sections close and the trout start to spawn in late October!! Good Luck & Play Nice!! Tommy
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