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 Jordan Lindberg | May 25, 2009 | News & Updates, Trips & Guides
The weather is finally improving and even holding a bit steady and I spent yesterday on the Manistee with Bryon, John, and Brooke. We started a bit late in the upper part of Manistee, still in canoe country, but got tired of dodging the aluminum hatch on a holiday...
by Jordan Lindberg | May 18, 2009 | Environment, Flies
Trout fishing on the Manistee River in the early season … one of the best ways the spend an early spring afternoon (or, just as often, a cloudy, late afternoon!). In this useful article, Chuck Hawkins of Hawkins Outfitters discusses the import role of...
