Two Rivers/Manitowoc, Lake Michigan (all postings)

Got out for our first trip of the year yesterday. Fished between 6and 10 am, trolled from Two Rivers Peirs south past Manty. Went 2 for 3 fishing 15-20 fow. Cranks and spoons. We were a little suprised to put this one in the net but nice to see!

With the warmer weather and offshore winds are fishing will begin to improve daily. Browns are already here and biting in close look for the Rainbows to start shortly up top on Orange Pro Kings.....

Good to see Captain Keith & The Willie Bee out working the Fish Already....

Blue Thunder "Fun in the Sun Out of Two Rivers"

Caught on the cam again! The Bee is loaded and ready for fishing. Did the shake down cruise, on the one's. Left at 11, fished 1 hour, had 1 bite, caught 1 brown. Copper spoon on the surface in the muddy water. Still chilly water.

fished Monday morning in front of Aurora 3 for 3 on browns took them on green and while flicker shad, and orange and gold rattle bait

Fished out of Manti on Weds. from sunrise to 12:30 PM, went 5 for 7 (all browns), released one fish. Saw Rick way out deep so we made the mistake of leaving fish to find fish and had the same success as him, no takers out deep. The water temps are only in the 40's beyond 35 FOW so if you want to catch fish, stay closer to shore and fish the warmer water. Stick baits and smaller spoons took all of the fish running at 2.1 to 2.5. No particular bait hotter that anything else.

By the way, the cleaning station is not open. They have a part on order but it was not there on Weds. Good luck out there!

Disco out

Went deep during flat calm conditions Wednesday afternoon and trolled for 3.5 hours with no fish. Marked numerous pods on the bottom in the 185 foot depth range, and a few as high up off of that bottom as 120 feet, buy no baitfish or pods of larger fish any higher than that. I had the downriggers as far down as 117 feet, but only had light balls and just didn't want any more line out than that. Next time out I am bringing the wire lines.

Trolled spoons mostly, but switched to a J-Plug for a bit, then a dodger/squid. Nothing.

But we did go in to the shoreline and catch a fat brown trout!

Video!

any fish off the piers?

The Willie Bee is in the water and just needs the fishing poles to be brought on board, but with such a beautiful day, I couldn't say no to a little fishing. Rat got us togeather for a shake down trip that had all 2's. Departed at 2 p.m., fished for 2 hours, had 2 bites, caught 2 browns both on orange spoons. Flat calm and warm out on the lake. Looks like some brown fishing will pick up with the water temps warming near shore, and we'll go in search of kings this weekend. Got caught on the Two Rivers Harbor Cam reeling in a fish.

I must've went in the wrong direction. Fished north of two rivers from 11 til 3pm and no hits at all. Worked from 15 ft to 40 ft of water, tried crankbaits and spoons. Nothing on the graph either. Did get some slide diver depth info with new depth meter, so not a totally wasted day. A neat little toy. Weather was nice

where are those buggers right now, I fish the piers with spoons as well as the rivers, and nothing,please help i'm hungry!

Took the cob webs off the boat and fired both Evinrudes over for the first time Wednesday Am. Pulled at 9AM and fishing was decent just enough action to keep you on your toes. I missed two but did net 3 Browns. Thought I had a King for a minute never saw the fish but acted like the larger Brown I did net so probably not a King. 25ft. was good smaller NBK Stingers took the fish. Riggers down 12ft. back 80ft. and a small dipsy set 3 out about 60ft. took 2 hits. 2.2 GPS seemed right. One small alewife in one of the stomachs probably from last years hatch. Good luck.

There were 2 boats that went deep the last sunday in April from Kewaunee and both reported marking some fish out deep. They both brought home the striped kitty for supper though.

Has anyone been venturing out into deeper water for Kings yet?

Rick; The long version was great too! Nice job landing those fish all by your self. Will be giving it a shot tomorrow, looks like it is going to be a beautiful day.

Thanks again,

Disco

Out for browns: 1 for 4 this morning, with all the action after 10AM. Wish I could have stayed out later. Found them between the South Manty pier and MPU in 18 FOW. Nothing happened down by Calvin Creek.