Curtis area?

[HunterHawk]

is there anyone on here from the curtis area (eastern U.P.) who i can contact to get ice reports from.... seasons getting close and i have a few vacation days so i want to head up there when there is some safe ice.... I CANT WAIT! all this cold weather... we will be ice fishing in no time i can feel it. Good luck and be safe this season. if anyone can update me as the season goes on either just post on here or send me a p.m. and i will bug you during the winter and get the fishing and ice report... thanks a lot hopefuly someone comes threw.~Hawk

[frznFinn]

We fish mainly in Curtis. My parents live up in Newberry. Soon as I hear I'll let ya know...

[HunterHawk]

Thanks... we usualy fish south manistuqe lake.... hows the big lake?.. you can send it in a PM if you want but i was just wondering... we have a cabin up in Gulliver and we usually only make it up ice fishing one or two times a year... i kind of know the decent spots on the south but never fished the big lake.

[frznFinn]

don't overlook round lake when the wind picks up at the other-it's a little more protected and we do pretty good there too. Soon as he quits hunting I'll get the reports...I can't wait!

[FISH21]

I have a cabin up on the south lake and we usually do pretty good out there right around christmas time.

[NBman]

I have never fished manistique but plan to do so quite a bit this winter...........i plan putting a perminant shanty out there i just have no clue where to go .............if someone could send me a pm it would be much appreciated........thanks

[HunterHawk]

where do you leave the spare key? :).... lucky dog i either have to drive from gulliver (if we can even get back to the cabin) either that or stay in one of those motels ( if not full) or i will be fishing 4 days straight ;)

[FISH21]

LOL, yeah that is kind of a long drive to the lake but if you can get yourself into some good fishing then it's definitely worth it. You can call JR's bait shop at (906) 586-6040 or The Fish & Hunt Shop (906) 586-9531 for lake reports. I'm sure that there will be safe ice up there within the next week. What kind of fish will you be targeting?

[HunterHawk]

yeah i actually have the fish and hunt shops card:) but i figured if someone here lived right around there i would be lazy and just ask on here haha but they are really nice people there. so i will probably give them a call a little later on and get a fishing report. When you heading up there? Im thinking about going up over christmas break sometime... probably not till after christmas and before the 1st im thinking... not sure when school starts it might have to wait till after the 1st if i have enough time...

as to what i am targeting: Walleye, Perch, Pike, Gills, anything that bites.... last time when i was up there i didnt catch any walleye... which is what i said i was going after but i did catch some pike and perch and a few gills. Im really not picky.. i have only caught like 1 keeper walleye in that darn lake and only a handful of keeper pike and i fish summer and winter... still fun catching fish though so im not going to complain. so i mean if you want to you can probably PM me all the hot spots :lol: . we talked to one of the older gentelman working the counter at the fish and hunt shop for like a half hour one day... i think his name was mike. he gave us a map and marked on it where we would have the best bet to catch certain fish that we were trying to catch so im hoping this year goes a bit better than the last couple.
~Hawk

[callie]

Hey Hawk:
I actually have a place on the South Lake. Maybe we can communicate further through pm's. I'm heading up to get my snowmobile tended to this weekend. I can get you a pre-Christmas report if you so choose.

[HunterHawk]

sure wouldnt hurt..... im emailing back and forth with my work scheduler trying to figure out when i can go.... but i sure wouldnt mind a pre christmas report. thanks a bunch
-Hawk

[frznFinn]

not looking good up there right now. Warm there and rain also....

[Chawazz]

Looks like the weather might start to turn 'favorable' Monday.

Everyone think cold . . . and maybe we'll have a Christmas present:fish:

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/forecast/MapClick.php?CityName=Curtis&state=MI&site=APX

[HunterHawk]

any word yet???... im getting pumped that there could actually be ice by the 4th. (my vacation time)... let me know when you guys go and or comeback.
-Hawk

[FISH21]

I'm going up from Tuesday the 26th until monday the 1st. Will leave you a report when I get back.

[fishlessyooper]

If anyone plans to ice fish any of the Manistique Lakes soon; you need to bring your boat along. It rained all day yesterday & through the night also. Don't want to burst anyones bubble about ice fishing; but ice is extremely dangerous/unsafe here in the DA UP. Jeff

[FISH21]

Have you looked at any of the manistique lakes after yesterday's rains?

[HunterHawk]

that is not what i wanted to hear, i just looked at the 10 day forcast for curtis and it said 8/10 days was a high below 32.... by the time the 4th gets here i will be all set with that forcast i would think.... good luck fish21... wish you the best. pm me with how it goes.-Hawk

[FISH21]

Goin up in a couple of hours, coming back next Monday, I will leave a report when i get back or sooner if i can find some internet service:lol:

Pray for ice!

[HunterHawk]

i have been praying and it doesnt sound or look like its been working, have fun and be safe.. haha its the UP good luck finding internet service :lol:
Will be waiting to hear back from you because i leave the 4th.
-Hawk

[SPORTSMAN]

I drove by both lakes yesterday in persuit of some hunting property. South lk. had open water in the center with few people fishing the edges.
And the same with the North lk. Could'nt tell ya how much ice though.

I'll be headed up Mon. I'll try and get an report then.

[FISH21]

Well we just got back and overall had a pretty good time. About 2/3 of south manistique had ice, mostly in the bays. The middle parts were all open water. We fished wolfe bay everyday and it had about 4 inches of solid ice. There were even snow mobiles out there one day but they were all the way inside the bay. We did pretty well, We caught some nice pike, a nice 23" walleye, bunch of hammer handles and at least a dozen largies. I will post pics as soon as I can. Also drove by the big lake and the whole lake looked frozen from what I saw, I spudded a hole and found 4 inches of ice. The bad news is it rained all day yesterday and this morning when I looked at the ice there was water on top and didn't look very safe. A couple days and nights of cold weather should harden it right back up.

[SPORTSMAN]

I went buy today. The lake opened up quite a bit, Even saw a guy out with a boat, fishing

[HunterHawk]

dang.... not what i wanted to hear... good thing im taking the 8ft boat too haha... this sucks... this ice fishing trip i took off work for isnt looking so much like an ice fishing trip.

[FISH21]

Well if worst comes to worst and you can't fish the south lake, you can always fish the big lake it didn't have any open water on it last week. There are other smaller lakes in the area too you could always fish on. Good luck.

[WOODY63]

we are going to curtis 17th thru 21st,usually fish the big lake foe perch,walleye,any reports?hows the ice now?sure there will be safe ice for the quad by then

[SKUNK]

We tried to fish there last Fri. and couldn't. We found ice farther north on some of the smaller lakes and had a blast catching Splake. Good Luck!