Hex Night #2

Come out, come out...where ever you are!

Hot and humid conditions had Tommy and I thinking we would have the perfect night for the "HEX" hatch. We were wrong about that, unless it happened around 2am. We fished ISO's on our way down to the spot we were posting up and caught a number of scrappy Brown and Brook trout. Cayenne also got to take your maiden voyage down the Upper Manistee in the drift boat. She actually did pretty well after her initial dive off the side of the HYDE towards a sweeper to try and retrieve a sunken log 15 minutes into the trip. We had a few duns on the water around 10pm and spinners up in the air for about an hour. They never seemed to fall like they did the previous night. If anyone has this BUG figured out please let me know!

Hex Night #1

Took my brother-in-law to the Upper Manistee River for the Hex Hatch last night. It was his first experience fishing at night. I think you quickly realized it's a bit different fishing with the lights off. We had good bugs and nice fish feeding from 10pm on. Although, we had a few showers come through, in between the rain fish started to feed again. Hopefully we'll get some more bugs tonight while Tommy and I fish the same stretch of water.

Upper Man Fishing Report - HEX?

Here is an up to date fishing report from Ed McCoay with Hawkins Fly Fishing
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Ed McCoy - 27, 29, 30 & July 1,2
http://www.hawkinsflyfishing.com/RiverReports/ManisteeAboveTippy.php

Upper Man Report - Ed@Hawkins

Fishing Report for the Upper Manistee River 5/5/10:

Fishing on the Upper continues to give us some good shots at some nice trout as of late. Bill and I hit the Upper today in hopes of cashing in on some streamer fishing and mixing it up with some dries. We did very well today on streamers despite the sunny skies, but the wind really killed our dry fly opportunities. Best flies were white, yellow, and olive streamers fished deep. The water looks really good right now as the rain has brought our levels back to more normal conditions for this time of year with a nice tea stain. Water temps are in the mid fifties and the fish we caught today were not bashful. We had sporadic Black and Tan Caddis, Hendrickson’s, BWO’s, and Medium Brown Stones hatching throughout the day, but the wind was not allowing the bugs to get the fish keyed in on them. The next few warm evenings should provide some good spinner falls and I have already had a few good fish lost on dries over the past week or so. Look for things to get cranking over the next few weeks as our sulphurs should get going by the middle of May.

Tight Lines,
Ed