by Ted Kraimer | Jul 10, 2009 | Angling Reports
The up and down, inconsistent weather has our Hex hatch continuing a little longer than anyone would have guessed at the beginning of the season. Numerous days of cool (sometimes cold) weather put the pugs on hold while little warm-ups triggered small emergences. The...
by Ted Kraimer | Jul 2, 2009 | Angling Reports
Last week’s hot spell helped kick-off the Hex hatch, but this week’s cool-down has shifted it into idle. The Upper Manistee and the Boardman rivers had respectable hatches lasting about five days, but with the cool down came fewer bugs – Hex and others. Our...
by Ted Kraimer | Jun 26, 2009 | Angling Reports
Finally after a cool spring, summer just came, and so did the hot weather. This week’s pressure-cooker and sunlight were just what we needed to get the bugs going on local rivers. The Manistee has hex bugs, but it’s just the first couple of nights, and the numbers are...
by Ann Miller | Jun 1, 2009 | Environment
Fishing at night is much different than fishing during daylight. Sounds seem magnified in the dark, with howls, crashes, and screeches from the woods or surprise splashes from the river causing near cardiac arrest. Wading is uncertain, with each precarious step an...
