South Manistique Report

[MuskyDan]

Fished SM last week for walleyes, bass, pike, muskies and panfish. As usual the muskies eluded us but what a beautiful lake to be chucking the big baits. Walleyes were tuff but as a group we managed about 15 legals and 20 some shorts. Largemouth and pike were/could be caught at will but I think they should lift the size limit on the pike out of about 200 fish caught last week we got about 10 legals. Highlight of the trip was finding the sunnies in the shallows. We had the opportunity to get the young guys onto some of the good fighting pumpkinseeds and giant rock bass. Overall it was a great trip, great weather, great food and great fishing.

[Czarthree]

Great report. Love S.Manistique and love Curtis. We stay at the North Shore Resort.

[shametamer]

hey good goin Dan and friends!!!:woohoo1:..sorry we missed ya..we were dodging wind, rain, storms, skeeters and black flies most of last 2 weeks...i think this is the year of short pike n eyes..about everywhere we stopped(except drummond/maxton n scott bays) we caught 9 shorts to every 1 keeper size northern and the eyes were 6 of 7 short..geez you want bucketmouths..millecoquins was kickin out more of those skink types that you could possibly want....we hit otsego(on way up) drummond is., caribou(wife took a nice inland smallie 19 3/4 inch),tahquamenon rv.,nawakwa,hoist dam, greenwood,peavy pond (missed out by a day on the tourney)fox rv., milakokia,millecoquins..missed brevoort(raining fiercely)..(hey was part of u.s.2 detoured for you as well? cut river area/) and the mighty(on way home) houghton....thanx to 1 of the 'outlaws' member for helping us load the boat on an especially windy eastern u.p. day!..funny year...millecoquins weedier than ever,..caribou lacking most of weeds from years past..houghton produced in the skinniest of water( best bite 5 to 5.5 feet) only ski..( short..naturally:sad:) came from peavy..wife swears she'll never fish the fox agin..bugs were battle tested and strong....regular green beret types!:lol:geez and keepin cell signal and finding wifi hotspots were a challenge!:dizzy:..paid a high of 4.47.9 for petrol..(paradise)