Two Rivers/Manitowoc, Lake Michigan

The park at rapids road had about two dozen people in it last night. fish are there and saw a couple people hooked up

I have seen the occaisional comment about fish caught that have a fin clip.A DNR speaker at one of the fishing club meetings last winter said that due to shortage of help, many planted fish did not get clipped, so that is no longer a way way to determine planted/not planted.

Finished my Season with a short solo run off Manitowoc Thursday AM.  Just a chop in 80ft. setting lines but a bit more than that in 205ft. where I eventually pulled at 8AM.  Almost the Skunk.  At 7:28 an hour after sunrise my deep rigger set 136ft. on counter popped in 202ft.. of water.  I had about an 8ft. set back from the 15# ball and the King hit a green/lbb fly behind an 11" flasher.  Things will probably change but yesterday the warm water went down a long way.  The King had an adipose clip a Plant, but the majority we netted this year did not.  I was happy with the one fish . I saw my GPS read 10.3 back to Pier Heads almost straight out.  Someone today mentioned about being out alone maybe unsafe and I responded that you are in more danger behind the wheel these days.  Have a good Fall and Winter and Good Luck.

late report. Was out on Friday night and saturday morning on the boat fishing the river/ harbor. ​Everyone I talked to had no fish and between the two days only ​saw two people ​hooked up at all. 

Yesterday was another nice salmon fishing trip but not as good as the fishing trip before when we caught six salmon in an hour. Nice chunky fish for winter storage.
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Footloose long passed away.  2ft. rollers from N.E. at least no chop to it Friday AM off Manitowoc.  Overcast, no fog as predicted, some wave action perfect King set up and they were very active.  I started setting in 75ft.; barely got a 62ft. rigger down and it went off - 15 minutes later off.  That slowed the set up.  A deep wire flasher fly took our first King in 92ft..  I ran double dipsy's and 2 riggers.  Fish were active 40ft. to 100ft. down where we took a King on a rigger set 96ft..  We found 110ft. to 115ft. best but boats were all over the place from 60ft. to 150ft.. All Natural Kings I believe no fin clips.  Three were 3 yr. old's and one a small 4yr. old.  Some alewife in the fish let's hope they have some big reproducing years to keep up with this Salmon population.  2019 is not that long ago and I netted 2 Kings that year in 15 outings.  Salmon eat alewife like  Like Joey Chestnut eating hot dogs. Anyway, Jim in pic and I were happy with the 4 for 8 trip.  Spoons worked better than fly's for me I even ran a Meat Rig deep for an hour - nothing.  Good Luck.

Long time since I've been on lake-link. Is Nessie or footloose still around? or does anyone know who they are? I've come a long way in the salmon world and really it all kind of started right HERE many many years ago. thank you all. good luck fishing. Josh

Lake Michigan had that ugly nasty 3 foot plus solid wave chop I call it from the Southeast on the way out Friday evening.  Waves just a few seconds apart and like  hitting a brick wall with an aluminum bow but I did eventually get set in 65ft. just South of town.  I had spoken with two fellows with a good catch at the Manitowoc launch Friday AM and my hopes were higher than what actually happened.  I had 3 riggers and two braided dipsies set about 6:15PM; later put down a wire dipsy with flasher fly while the other 5 rods had spoons.  No boards just too bouncy. We didn't get deeper than 77ft. and I started trolling into them but turned at 7PM to make things easier into the dark.  There was 49-50 degree water 50ft. down got this from another boater.  Nothing going into them but shortly after the turn a 38ft. rigger went but eventually was off.  About 7:40PM the wire mag dipsy loc 100ft. double aqua howie and white 8 inch bechhold took off.  30 miniutes later the male 4 year old found our net and I pulled shortly after.  Good number of boats out last evening.  One good thing was the current kept the rigger lines pretty straight with either a North or South troll.  The Salmon was tanning but meat was solid.  Appreciated the son keeping the boat on course for the two old men along. Good Luck.

Hockeyguy-

That wave forecast I posted is quite accurate within 24 hours and almost dead accurate within 12 hours. It’s pretty typical for a S or SE wind to develop in the afternoon during summer on sunny days. If I see that the wind is going to shift or build from any direction, I will intentionally motor to or troll in a direction that will put me upwind of the launch. Mostly for an easier ride back but also in case I need to flee quickly. It’s easy to troll with the wind and wind up way downwind of the launch, therefore making for a rough ride back in.