Fishing the Manistee River and Hopkins Creek in Michigan

The Manistee River offers about a hundred miles of fishing thru the western portion of Michigan's lower peninsula. Here I spend a day floating down the middle section in search of large rainbow and brown trout. Along the way we stopped to take a look at a small tributary, Hopkins Creek, which I mistakenly refer to Ham Creek.
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[@riversandcoffee]

Great content...and fun to watch.... 👍

[@bigkemna87]

Another cool and informative video. Any thoughts on getting into Tenkara? Seems like a lot of the streams you fish, like the Driftless, would be perfect for this.

[@seanbrou-bj9ob]

That creek is Hopkins

[@lad420]

The creek was Hopkins Creek. There is a state forest campground there. Beautiful section of the Manistee. My favorite river. Thanks for sharing

[@williamwojcieszek4320]

Looks like a typical Michigan trout fishing day. One 5” trout. I’m heading to Wisconsin