A Day on the Water

A few new bright fish have moved up river.  It makes sense for some of the dark fish that have held downstream for some time, to move up with them.  Not many angler an nothing happening until a skilled bobber fisherman arrived and quickly hooked 2 good fish above me and later got a small silver male.  He told me he got them on wigglers so I tied on a 1/48 ounce #6 Swim Hex Jig.  I finally got my depth right and got two hens.     This years fish are mostly big and fat with small heads.  When fish have been very successful feeding out in the lake, it makes them...

First fish was this little guy who has run up the river and jumped over the coffer dam planning to be the second boyfriend on the other side of a hen opposite her big buck. Third cast was this hen who took the nuke minnow.  Mathematically, if I could make 200 cast today, I would hook 67 steelhead and 67 trout.  The rest of the day was slow.  The Leggy Fox jig hooked 2 steelhead no trout hits, I fought the one that got off  long enough to know he was a bigger fish, right now the bigger fish are running over 31inches.  I...

3 for 3 on steelhead in the Big Manistee River, about 8 for 9 on brown trout.  The off white Nuke Minnow was the star until they were all gone.  The last steelhead took the a Brown Rubber Leg Fur Jig, "Leggy Fox Jig" which worked so well a week ago.