Two Rivers/Manitowoc, Lake Michigan (all postings)

Went over to 2 rivers on father's day. Didn't get out until 6:30. Ended up with 1 king on a flasher down 100 and 1 laker on a spoon behind 3 colors of lead. Pretty slow but it was a fairly bright day. The surface temps went up to the mid- fifties. Marked lots of fish. Most down low but quite a few around 70...

Bait fish are everywhere. Must be a dead or dying alewife every 20 feet on the surface.

can only get better...the fish are there.

My son treated dad to Kewaunee's Breakfast on the Farm yesterday and I gave him a slow fishing trip last evening. We targeted Kings from 7:15PM to dark with the same 62ft. rigger going twice but only netted one a King. A white bechhold double aqua howie worked there. Internet access on your phone is a plus on the Big Lake I don't have that but my son does and we kept track of the Weather North of us as we fished. We circled 100ft. to 120ft. three times. and almost flat seas when we pulled. Good luck.

Fished the same school we found on Friday night south of manitowoc. We're only able to take two passes through the fish before being blown off the lake. Ended 4/6 2 kings 2 coho in 105-160 ft of water.

Later,

Went out Sat morning, think it would have been better to hit the lake in the afternoon. Water is still really cold. We fished outside and inside the nets out to 200ft.

Bottom out deeper is just stacked with fish and lots of bait. rainbows were breaking on top.

Only managed 1 rainbow on top. Not a bump down deeper until we hit 65 feet and we tagged a pig of a lake trout. Biggest I have seen in years. It is still swimming.

Talked to guys at the marina and lots of skunks.

This was our first trip so was actually good..boat ran nothing broke!!!!

14/20 last night 100-160 ft allot of flasher fly combos went.

Our 3 hour afternoon trips have been the most successful this week. The water temps are still cold so on a clear day a couple of degree warm up on the surface temp is enough to turn on the rainbow bite and there are a few coho just below them. The kings are still tight to the bottom and the alewife are very thick right now. Fishing from the 90-200 foot depths around the nets has been the best and blue spoons on the surface hooked up the rainbows and the 00 red flasher Took a fun run and Tammy got to reel in this 12lb rainbow.

http://lake-link.com/forums/Great-Lakes-Fishing/discuss.cfm/107396/2013-Two-Rivers-Manitowoc-Trap-Nets/

Kinda small, but still legible.

Does anyone have the trap net coordinates? The Seagrant server is not responding.

Thanks

Well is it worth the trip? Any info is appreciate pm if you'd like. Are fish biting? Depth range? North south of nets? Flasher fly? Spoons etc? Thanks for any and all info.

well we made it out last night for our first trip, we set up north of the nets in 90 fow. I wish I could say we had steady action but that wasn't the case.

We ended up with 2 nice Kings, got one on a pound ball 210' out with a green dodger green fly combo and got one on a rigger down 90' with another green dodger green fly combo. Both fish were caught in about 150 fow. All and all we had a good time and we're hoping the weather cooperates this coming weekend,

Hope to see you out deep,

AJ's Dream

In case anyone was wondering where the nets were located here is the link. http://www.seagrant.wisc.edu/home/Portals/0/Files/Fish%20and%20Fisheries/2013-06-03_TrapNet_Two%20Rivers-Manitowoc.pdf

This weekend we saw some good fishing out of two rivers. A number of 20+ lb kings being caught mixed in with some rainbows and cohos. Here are my 2 charters from the weekend. 17-28 fri night and 10-17 on sat morning. Heavy boat traffic saturday and calm seas made for a tougher bite. Fish were caught all the way from 60-200 fow. Water temps are the same everywhere on the lake so the fish are pretty scattered. Flashers and flies working the best. To book a trip visit my website at www.silveradrenalinecharters.com

Captain Marc Hietpas Silver Adrenaline Charters

With flat calm seas and a warm breeze it was a perfect afternoon out on the water. We went 5 for 11 with a mix or kings and rainbows. The second afternoon was much of the same and the clients didn't care if we caught anymore fish, so I targeted size and not numbers. We got 1 out of 3 on a triple rainbow bite and after two tries a big king made it to the boat topping off a weekend of fun. This one went over 19lbs with a number of over 20lb king salmon being caught in the Two Rivers this weekend.

Flat conditions as my grandson & son rode along out to 105ft. Saturday evening off Manitowoc. If you take youngsters along take a fly swatter along it will keep them busy when the fishing is slow as it was Saturday. Still very cold water deep but the sun is warming things on top which will help the Steelhead bite in coming weeks. We kept at it from 5:30PM to sunset but only managed two fish our only two bites. A Bow took a small green/red fly & 00 dodger off a high mono and a deep wire dipsy out 180ft. running a naughty leprechaun fly & green bechhold took a nice King. Both fish hit between 145ft. and 155ft. of water and were stuffed with alewife. Good luck.