With the cool weather starting earlier this year, the salmon are starting to run in the Lower Peninsula. Some of the runs in the Upper started to take place a week and half ago, one night it hit 39 degrees while there.
Reports are coming in that the salmon are in the Manistee in good numbers, but have yet to reach the the first dam in big numbers. If the weather holds, it shouldn’t take long though. Look for all rivers north of the Manistee to be getting similar reports as well.
I know one reader is heading up to Oscoda with a box full of Little Cleo’s to fish off the pier. This is the time of the year folks that the fish will keep running until the primal urge is satisfied, that or a sudden warm spell!
Get your collections of spoons, flies and spawn rigs and head north, time to fill the freezer with the good stuff.
Are you heading up that way?
No, this weekend I am doing some remodeling up in the shop, and will be concentrating on perch before the Matthew’s B&T Derby on the 20th of September. 25 bucks a boat, and should be lots of fun, plus the guys are having a 25% off sale everything in the shop.