Manistique salmon derby

[Salmon Sniper]

I went up to the UP this weekend and fished in the Manistique salmon derby. The derby is a big fish event that pays 1-8 for biggest salmon and trout. We caught 11 fish both days but no real size. Our biggest was a 14 lb king. We caught a mixed bag of salmon, lakers and steelhead.

The biggest king for the derby was just under 18 lbs which is under the average size of past winners. For what it is worth everyone up there was complaining about the lack of salmon and the increase of lake trout. It used to be pretty rare to catch a lake trout up there, there is still a slot size, but 9 of our 22 fish were lakers.