EdB

Nice catch!

Great catch!

Thanks for keeping us posted on Manistee Matt.

Thanks for the report.

Just a thought. Could it be the fish are stacked up on our side of the lake in that band of water? Seems 100-200 ft of water is quite good from St Joe to Manistee. I don't think they are doing this good on the far south end of the lake or the Wisconsin side.

Welcome Bob!

Great catch!

Thanks for the report!

Nice catch!

Nice catch Ken!

Nice start to the season for you!

Treblemaker from here won the wing contest. The wings everyone cooked were great and it was hard to pick a favorite. Lot's of different smoked foods all afternoon. It was a great 2 days on Lk Mich and the banks of the St Joe river. I don't need to eat anything today, I'm still stuffed.

Wings getting started for the wing contest. I should have taken a picture of Dan's Lang smoker before he pulled off the briskets and pork butts he had it loaded with. Here he is finishing some fattys and pork tenderloins.

When we got up and looked at the radar yesterday, there was a storm coming across the south end of the lake. We thought about trailing north to avoid it but stayed at St Joe since we were part of a BBQ and fishing event. We take the Q cooks out fishing and then they cook some awesome food over the 2 days. Most of the boats stayed in but we thought we go and see how it was. Raging east wind and the storm cell over the lake had us setting up in 40 feet of water instead of 127ft like yesterday. We made one out troll to 85 ft, went 2 for 3 and one guy started getting sick and the waves were really building as we got farther out so we pulled lines and went in. Quite the downpour as we pulled lines. Not many fish inside so I would start farther out if you are going this week. You can rule out some water from this report. Wish I was there today as weather looks better. When we got done, the smokers got fired up and the feast began. Okie Tim came all the way from Oklahoma to fish with us and cook some great Q. Baby backs

Nice kings Kevin.

Wish I could have stayed till today. The US Fish and Wildlife biologists collecting data from us at St Joe on Friday. They took scale samples, weight, length and the tails from our kings to check if they were stocked or reproduced naturally. First time I've met the Feds working at the docks. Our fish got a bit shorter after they were done.

Great box guys!

Good job Ben!

Nice catch!

That was a good short trip.

Nice job.

We had the feds check our fish at the dock. US Fish and Wildlife biologists.They weighed, measured, took scales and the tails. Voluntary on our part. First time I've seen them at the docks.

Thanks for the report.

Got a later start, set rods around 9:30am, couldn'nt get all the rods down. Hit about 17, got our limit by 11:30am. We fished 125ft to 150ft of water from the 12's back to the 08's. 70 to 90 ft down was best. All a green spoon bite. Wire mag lo divers out 150 to 180ft. 300ft 45lb copper. Good luck! Pic of our spoons/fish are in my gallery.

Nice job on the limit Adam!