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Adventures with a camera outdoors, capturing video's and pictures focused on steelhead, trout, muskie, and smallmouth.

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Manistee River Steelhead Report - Northern Michigan Guide Service

Manistee River Steelhead Report, steelhead fishing below Tippy Dam. Fly patterns, water levels, and steelhead tactics during spring and fall steelhead runs.

Steelhead fishing report for the Manistee River. 

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Fall Steelhead fishing report for the Manistee River.

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Fall Steelhead fishing report for the Manistee River.

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View this post on Instagram As trout anglers we get obsessed with matching the hatch. As a steelhead angler not sure that strategy works all the time. Not sure what this fly imitates but as a mangledfly it’s beautiful to me. A post shared by Jon Ray (@mangledfly) on Nov 2, 2019 at 3:33am PDT […]

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Inventory clear out, bunch of items on Sale.

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Jumping Manistee River Steelhead Todays post is a few hightlights from the past few days on Mangled Fly’s social media accounts if you haven’t followed us go check out the feed we have been updating a couple times a week on Instagram and our Facebook page. Video above was shot this week on my iPhone […]

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Check out this great fish from Guide Jeff Topp’s boat. Client is Steve B. with a Big Manistee River steelhead View this post on Instagram A post shared by Capt. Jeff Topp (@jefftopp_fishing) on Oct 22, 2019 at 3:02am PDT

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Fall steelhead 2019 update. The Manistee River continues to fish pretty well for fall steelhead. The last few days fish numbers have slowed down as we haven’t received a push of fish in a few days, but with a good number of steelhead in the upper sections opportunity still prevails. While pressure remains high with […]

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Fall Steelhead has started and I’m back on the Big Manistee River chasing one of my favorite targets.

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Manistee Trout Fishing Report

Manistee River Trout fishing for Brown Trout and Brook Trout. The Upper Manistee fishing report, Trout fishing report, Michigan Trout fishing.

Hex are still flying but soon it will be the Hopper and Mice program.

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Manistee Trout Fishing Report

Manistee River Trout fishing for Brown Trout and Brook Trout. The Upper Manistee fishing report, Trout fishing report, Michigan Trout fishing.

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Oh Mr. Brown trout giving us that evil eye. Fool me once shame on me look. #dryfly #whitingfarms #mangledfly #trout #bugsthatfisheat #scottflyrods https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx4hyRFBhMc/?igshid=upngk019lhg2

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@greatlakesfly flies catch all the predators. This was a first for me on this body of water, how do you battle out a cold front? Fish the largest body of water you can find. #mangledfly #greatlakesfly #iloveflashabou #sonargetdown #shorelunch https://www.instagram.com/p/BxuDGqohbp1/?igshid=48t78u19fvv3

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Manistee Trout Fishing Report

Manistee River Trout fishing for Brown Trout and Brook Trout. The Upper Manistee fishing report, Trout fishing report, Michigan Trout fishing.

If you like fishing dry flies now is the time

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The release #mangledfly #hawkinsoutfitters #sonargetdown #keepemwet #trout #scottflyrods https://www.instagram.com/p/BxZ3ebpBeUC/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1r8vb5rn8wm0y

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Each one no matter the size makes you work for it. #mangledfly #trout #keepemwet #sonargetdown https://www.instagram.com/p/BxUaohhBOOe/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=iqo33qrxdm2x

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Gluttonous #trout #mangledfly #iloveflashabou #furandfeathers #sonargetdown https://www.instagram.com/p/BxIXPAjhJnN/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1a82ajqoozoho