Anybody know any spots in the UP preferably not the Great Lakes tried big and small manistique last year but had no luck

Does it have to be U.P.? There are some mighty fine spots in the northern Lower.

Check out the Alpena area - though not the U.P. the Major League Fishing anglers had a blast Hammering very respectable Smallies over there the end of August last year.

 

http://www.majorleaguefishing.com/news_details.aspx?id=2905

 

A-Jay

You've got the Sylvania Wilderness Area and the Menominee River, both in the Southern part of the UP.

Anybody know any spots in the UP preferably not the Great Lakes tried big and small manistique last year but had no luck

 

So what's wrong with the Great Lakes?

 

There's plenty of fairly decent inland lakes in the UP from Caribou in the east to Gogebic in the west, but I wouldn't make that far of a drive if I wasn't planning on hitting the waters around Drummond Island, Les Cheneaux Islands, or the Bay DeNoc area.  As A-Jay said, plenty of great smallmouth water around Alpena.  As a matter of fact, there's lots of lakes north of M-72 going from one side of the state to the other.  If you want to target those green fish, there are many lakes south of the Mighty Mac that I would go to first.

So what's wrong with the Great Lakes?

 

There's plenty of fairly decent inland lakes in the UP from Caribou in the east to Gogebic in the west, but I wouldn't make that far of a drive if I wasn't planning on hitting the waters around Drummond Island, Les Cheneaux Islands, or the Bay DeNoc area.  As A-Jay said, plenty of great smallmouth water around Alpena.  As a matter of fact, there's lots of lakes north of M-72 going from one side of the state to the other.  If you want to target those green fish, there are many lakes south of the Mighty Mac that I would go to first.

 

OK now we're dangerously close to my stomping grounds - and we just can't have any of that ~

 

 

A-Jay

 

So what's wrong with the Great Lakes?

 

There's plenty of fairly decent inland lakes in the UP from Caribou in the east to Gogebic in the west, but I wouldn't make that far of a drive if I wasn't planning on hitting the waters around Drummond Island, Les Cheneaux Islands, or the Bay DeNoc area.  As A-Jay said, plenty of great smallmouth water around Alpena.  As a matter of fact, there's lots of lakes north of M-72 going from one side of the state to the other.  If you want to target those green fish, there are many lakes south of the Mighty Mac that I would go to first.

 

OK now we're dangerously close to my stomping grounds - and we just can't have any of that ~

 

 

A-Jay

 

 

If you're that worried about it, just give us a list of the lakes that you don't want us to fish!