The Manistee, Michigan area is one of the most productive locations for salmon and trout fishing on Lake Michigan. During the past decade, Manistee has been ranked as the number one salmon and trout fishing destination on the Michigan shores of Lake Michigan, and can proudly boast "the best catch ratio" for salmon and trout over all other Lake Michigan fishing ports.

Bordering our area, the Manistee National Forest with beautiful scenery and world class rivers and streams; Pere Marquette, Big Manistee, and Little Manistee rivers. Wild salmon and trout habitat these rivers, folks travel from all of the world to hook a sky-rocketing steelhead, or line ripping wild chinook salmon or brown trout. You will find that peace and tranquillity are natural features of our rivers, not to mention, world class angling.