Shaun and I shot up Tuesday night, the original plan was to camp out somewhere near Manton, but since we got up so late we decided to stay at the property in Mesick on Tuesday night. Woke up early and fished some small creeks near Manton, Morisey, Hopkins and Golden if I remember correctly. Caught a handful of small brookies, Shaun caught one that ended up in the cooler. After that we headed over to the Betsie and fished around in there and caught next to nothing, seen a lot of fish, had a few rises, but no real takers.
On our way up I called Craig from Onekama and told him we were heading up, so he offered to take us out... our choice- Manistee river in the drift boat to plug for summer runner and early kings, or big water in the 22' Trophy to troll for some kings out there. We ended up going out in the big water and only went 2 for 2, but they were both nice fish, mine went 8.5 lbs, Shaun caught the bigger one that ended up going 17.5 lbs. Not a lot of fish, but still not bad for an unexpected salmon trip, just goes to show you that every now and then it pays to strike up conversation with the guy fishin down stream from you.
Along with an ok night of big water salmon fishing, we recieved and awesome sunset as an additional bonus. The next morning we got up and went down below Tippy to try for some summer runners and early salmon, but no luck in the area, I did however catch a handful of small browns and this nicer 16" brown, caught them all on a drifting wax worm. After that, we went back to the property for a while, Shaun had some visiting to do over in Manton, when he got back, we hit the road and hit up the Pere Marquette for about an hour and I only caught one dink rainbow, and home we came. All in all a pretty good short trip, fish were caught, memories were made.
Trico's were coming off hard yesterday morning below Tippy, and the occasion bwo as well, also seen a handful of iso's on the Betsie near T-ville were poppin on wednesday. Couple more weeks and we'll be chasin kings in the rivers on a regualr basis. I can't wait.
Good luck and tight lines!
