This past week produced some very good fishing between fronts that came in mid week and on the weekend. The creel consisted of mainly lake trout with a couple of steelhead and/or salmon thrown in each day with creel numbers of 10 to 20 fish per trip. On one of our multi boat charters, a boat boated a lake trout that pushed 30 pounds and there were also chinook salmon taken that pushed 25 pounds. Not a lot of salmon being caught, however there are some very good sized salmon out there. The lake trout are also very nice size, with the catches averaging about 10 pounds each.
 

We are fishing from 85 foot of water to 110 foot of water. The steelhead are hitting any spoons that are orange and silver and orange and red that are pulled on 5 color lead core and/or 100 foot of copper. There are also some steelhead taken on 3 color lead core with orange and red thin fins. The best rigs for the salmon continue to be the super slim coyote ugly and the bloody nose pulled on 200 and 250 foot of copper. The lake trout continue to hit the metal dodgers and spin n glos (white/pink, double trouble glow) and silver flashers with oceana flies. We are pulling them on low and high wire divers and on the downriggers on the bottom.
 

Boats that fished for perch reported very little success out of Saugatuck and Holland.
 

Pier fishing for steelhead has slowed now that the water has warmed back into the 60’s.
 

The fishing should continue to improve as the lake’s thermo layers set up. There have been very little bait found in the stomachs of the fish, however we are seeing more bait showing up in the 90 to 100 foot of water so as the bait shows up the salmon should follow. Check back next week and off and on during the week for updates. For more information or to book a fishing charter, email me at captron@chartermichigan.com.
 

Captain Ron Westrate
captron@chartermichigan.com
Tel: 616-335-2076
Cell: 616-836-2748