River Maps

  1. Upper Manistee River Map

     

    The Upper Manistee River

     

    Manistee Flies Only #46A2EC

    This is widely regarded as the best self-sustaining trout water in the Michigan. With no impoundments and wadable water from Mancelona Road all the way to Smithville, this offers many miles of easy access, wadable, hatch water. Sand and gravel bottom and steady gradient make for good hatches from April through September. The upper “headwater” Manistee from Deward downstream to CO612 has good numbers of brook trout with higher concentrations of brown trout downstream of M72 to the CCC Bridge. The “Flies-Only” water o

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  2. Boardman River Map

     

    The Boardman River

     

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