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  1. Tom (TLTorrice) and I hit Manistee harbor Saturday and got 4 lines set by about 5:30am. We started straight out in the 15's in 95fow heading north away from the traffic. As soon as we got lines set they started going, and going and going! Doubles, triples, non-stop action for an hour and a half! Seemed like most of the time we only had one line left in the water. We didn't have time to really steer, we just looked up often enough to make sure we didn't run into anyone and luckily there wasn't anyone around. I think we ended up in about 160fow when the action finally slowed at 7am. That's when we emptied the cooler to see if we were near our limit yet. We had nine.

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    There was a mix of steelhead, mature and 2 year old kings, the 2 bigger ones going 18 and 19 pounds. We released 2 more, lost one then got number 10 about an hour later and headed to the cleaning station.We've never seen such great action in Manistee and it's only July! Here's what worked:

    Big Al's glow flasher with red meat rig on rigger 60 ft down

    Happy Meal on rigger 50ft down

    Blue glow spin doctor with blue glow dreamweaver fly on wire out 150

    Area 51 on wire out about 170

  2. Fished with Tom (TLTORRICE) and my son Reilly out of Manistee this weekend. Went out Saturday and set lines about 1pm in 5-7 foot waves in 200fow and trolled with the waves. Finally got a fish when we hit 90fow. A nice 17 lb king on the wire pulling meat behind a NBK spin doctor. Had to wake up my sea sick son to reel it in. great fight, lots of runs but we got it in the box and decided to pull lines after only an hour of fishing. with the last rod in the water we got another fish on a green dolphin off the rigger in 60 fow. a 16lb king we had Reilly reel in to keep his head from swimming. we called it a day and had high hopes for Sunday morning.

    We got Reilly up at 5am and he surprised us by agreeing to go out in 2-4 footers. We followed the crowd and fished the shelf with no success. Finally got a hit on a green Ace high plug once we made our way to 60fow but the line broke due to a forgotten snubber. we saw a blank screen all day, fished until noon and went 0 for 1. tough day! Water was 45 degrees at just 30 foot down and we figured the fish were scattered. Probably should have fished in close from the start.

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  3. Tom (TLTorrice) and I took my daughter Taylor out Sunday straight out from the port. we set up in 400 fow and trolled with the 3-5 foot waves toward shore. Fishing has been tough in Manistee due to all of the warm water so we declared it "meat day" and ran all meat rigs just to see what would happen. We found 45 degree water down at about 120fow and set one rigger there and the other at 100. wires out to 230 and 270, and 2 lead core 10 colors. The first fish came on the deep rigger and Taylor muscled in a 17.1 1lber.

    That fish came on a green hoochie pulling a green meat rig.

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    the second fish came on the 270 wire pulling a NBK spin doctor with a green meat rig. That fish was 10 lbs

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    Third fish came on the deep rigger while setting it and was a throw back. The waves were building and we were thinking of calling it a day but Taylor said we were wimps and shamed us into making one last run.

    We ran out to 450 fow and picked up a 9 lber when I dropped the deep rigger from 110 to 125. Tom and I noticed we were now looking up at the waves while standing on the back of the boat and called it a day at 330pm. Taylor reeled in all of the fish going 4 for 4 and we all had a blast.

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  4. Fished Manistee harbor 8-16, 17, and 18 with Tom (tltorrice). Set up in 130 fow Saturday am west of nets and south of harbor, various spoons on downriggers took the majority of fish. Saturday evening was spent trolling north of the harbor around 60 fow it didn't seem to matter on depth as there was cold water everywhere. Glow j-plugs and spoons and herring strip meat rigs were the big producers that evening. Sunday evening was a tough bite all the way to Onekama mostly in 70 to 80 fow.

    Monday morning was the most fun. We set lines just outside of the pierheads as that 's where all the fish and cold water was the 2 days before, but we saw that the water temp was 62 degrees top to bottom due to southwest wind pushing the warm water back in all night, so we pulled all the lines and set up off the shelf in 100 to 110 fow and started into fish right away just before daybreak. Flasher fly combos, Glo black ladderback j-plug, area 51 spoons, NBK spoon, red meat rig, gold meat rig, downiggers and dipsy's all worked, but the glo black ladderback j-plug and meat riggs got the most rips. We went 7 for 11 fish Monday morning and 19 for about 30 over the 3 days. Mix of kings coho and lakers, everything but steelhead. Good action, good time. here is a couple of pics.

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