The Manistee River in Michigan, runs approximately 232 miles through the northern Lower Peninsula, through the villages of Sharon, Smithville, Mesick, and enters Lake Michigan at Manistee. It is considered, like the nearby Au Sable River, to be one of the best trout fisheries east of the Rockies. The river rises in the sand hills in southeastern Antrim County, on the border with Otsego County, about six miles southeast of the town of Alba. These deep glacial sands provide it with a remarkably stable flow of clean cold water year round, making it a popular river for fishing as well as canoeing. Over the course of its length, it drops in elevation from around 1300 feet to 582 feet, with an average stream gradient of about 2.9 feet per mile.
I'll be fly fishing mostly for steelhead with my wifes brothers Mike, Steve and Gordon. This is my first trip to the area and targeting steelhead. If anyone has any tips please post them ASAP. My brothers in law are great guys and I'm looking forward the fishing, bullshiting, and drinking. But most of all I'm looking forward to getting away and just relaxing for a while.
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