Sunday, August 23, 2015

Salmon Fishing in Manistee, Michigan 2015

Fished with Joe and John. We left Saturday morning and picked up the boat in Hart, MI,  where we left it after we were done fishing in Pentwater. This year will be remembered because of the very strong winds we had on Wednesday and Thursday and Friday morning. Of all the years of salmon fishing this was our worst for weather. We were able to fish 8 of the possible 13 trips and one of those was cut short and another was in four foot seas. We were never skunked on any trip but we never caught more than 3 fish on any trip. Our largest salmon was 18 lbs, and our smallest was 14 lbs. One day we would get all our bites on meat rigs and the next day all the bites would be on J plugs. Very hard to figure out. The last couple of years it seems that you have one good day to catch a lot of fish and this year it was Tuesday morning. Boats were netting fish all around us but we came back with only one salmon. We switched lures, changed the depth on the baits and changed the speed we were trolling, but nothing worked. We kept 12 salmon for the entire trip and caught one lake trout that we put back.


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