Lower Manitou Lake Monster Northern Pike Fishing
The Lower Manitou system along with our portage lakes offers some very good Northern Pike fishing. Esox Lake and Manitou Lake have tons of excellent weedy bays that the small to midsize Pike like to hide in as well as the bigger ones in the spring when the water is warming up. Once the water warms the bigger Pike will move out to deeper water usually adjacent to the main lake rock reefs.
On this body of water you can consistently catch fish in the weed bays and out to 10-14ft. of water adjacent to the weed bays all summer long. The weeds and the small baitfish that live in the area give the Pike an easy food source and the weeds give them a hiding place from the lurking Muskies that will feed on them.