Captain Steve Hamilton of First Class Charters reports from Manistee.

Fishing improved today, 06/29/10. Rough seas but got some nice Salmon and
Lake Trout. The current was much better and we went straight out, a little
South in 100 to 200 ft. Our best lure today was the Moonshine Wonderbread.
Hopefully good weather this week end and no wind and lots of fish!

Capt. Ken Deaton of J-Lyn Charters reports from Harbor Beach:

Once the wind stops blowing the fishing should pick back up. You will want to try fishing in the deeper water for Lake Trout. Try North, South and straight out of the harbor. Use the Dodgers and Spin and glows fished right down on the bottom. Try medium and large size spoons off the downriggers as well. Try purple, pink, yellow, green, and black colors. Work the 70 to 150 foot of water areas.
There should still be Salmon mixed in with the Lake Trout try using medium and magnum size spoons off the boards and downriggers from 40 to 70 foot down in 70 to 150 feet of water. Try adding Tadpole weights with spoons off the Offshore boards to get the lines down deeper.
Steelhead should be out on the color lines in 80 to 150 feet of water, try the new Offshore Tadpoles on with your monofilament lines to get them down deeper. Use the bright colors for best results.
Perch fishing is slow, you might try South of the harbor by the cemetery in 25 to 50 feet of water with minnows.
Walleye fishing will be slow till the water clears a little, try off the North wall early morning and late evening casting small body baits and spoons. Try the green, purple, silver and blue colors. Also try trolling out in the areas where the water starts to clear in 60 to 80 foot of water North of the harbor with crawler harnesses, small spoons and small body baits.

Some nice Bass and Pike are still being taken inside the harbor and close to shore casting small body baits and spoons.

Keep those lines tight,
Captain Ken and Captain Janice Deaton
J-Lyn Charters
Harbor Beach MI
www.jlyncharters.com
810-542-0426

Captain Steve Hamilton of First Class Charters reports from Manistee.

Fishing is still decent, fished all last week and had some nice Kings, Lake
Trout and some Steelhead. Some boats are going South, all the way to the
point and others up North by Arcadia. We have fished both places and also
straight out in front of Manistee. Boats straight out are starting on the
shelf in about 65 ft. of water and out to over 300 ft.
Have had alot of current the last 2 days, hard to get a good troll.
Using Spin doctors and DW big paddles. KRW green glow flys and Auqa gold
glow and Riverside. Spoons are still the Yeck Double Mint, DW Super Slim:
Hello Darlin and Thriller. Also heard good reports of the modified Carmel
Dolphin, a Stinger Lure.
Also meat rigs have been the top bait.
Good Fishing!

Capt. Ken Deaton of J-Lyn Charters reports from Harbor Beach:

Lake Trout fishing has slowed with all of the passing storms. You will want to try fishing in the deeper water North, South and straight out of the harbor. Try the Dodgers and Spin and glows fished right down on the bottom. Try medium and large size spoons off the downriggers as well. Try purple, pink, yellow, green, and black colors. Work the 60 to 150 foot of water areas.
There should still be Salmon mixed in with the Lake Trout try using medium and magnum size spoons off the boards and downriggers from 40 to 70 foot down in 60 to 150 feet of water. Try adding Tadpole weights with spoons off the Offshore boards to get the lines down deeper.
<>Steelhead should be out on the color lines in 60 to 150 feet of water, try the new Offshore Tadpoles on with your monofilament lines to get them down deeper. Use the bright colors for best results.
Perch fishing is slow, you might try South of the harbor by the cemetery in 25 to 50 feet of water with minnows.
Walleye fishing will be slow till the water clears a little, try off the North wall early morning and late evening casting small body baits and spoons. Try the green, purple, silver and blue colors. Also try trolling out in the areas where the water starts to clear in 50 to 70 foot of water North of the harbor with crawler harnesses, small spoons and small body baits.

Some nice Bass and Pike are still being taken inside the harbor and close to shore casting small body baits and spoons.

Captain Ron Westrate of CoHooker Charters reports from Saugatuck:

Even dodging storms and high winds through out the week, the fishing was
good with 6 to 12 fish per trip. The creel consisted of chinook salmon
pushing 20 pounds, lake trout weighing up to 14 pounds and steelhead,
coho and even an occasional brown trout. The best fishing continues to
be the 90 to 120 foot of water depth, however there are also fish in in
the 135 to 160 foot depth. With the full moon, the bite is best in the
mid to late morning and early evening.

The best lures for us are the 11 in Hot Chip and Pro Chip flashers
(green/glow, white/glow and white/mountain dew) with Rapture flies
(purple No See Ums, green Hypnotist, Green Dude and Frosted Fern). We
are pulling these on the downriggers from 60 foot to the bottom and wire
dipsy divers at 200 foot and 250 foot out. 200 and 300 copper have
produced some nice steelhead and brown trout with Craig’s Christmas and
the orange Corey Stingrays and 400 foot of copper (also 400 foot with 2
oz dive bomb) are producing with 8 in white bladed flashers and Green
Dude flies.

The perch report is good with limit catches south of the Saugatuck
harbor from 60 to 70 foot of water. It is difficult to fish this deep
water however the report is they are catching 10 to 14 in perch.
Yesterday there was some very good catches of perch in 20 foot of water
south of the piers. These were not as big as the deep water perch but
avg. 6 to 8 in.

Reports from Holland to South Haven is good fishing from mid morning to
noon and from 6 PM until dark. If the weather cooperates, we should hold
our fish. For information and/or charter reservations, email me at
captron@chartermichigan.com.

Captain Ed Stowe of Stowaway Charters reports from Ludington:

The fishing has moved north to the point for the most part, from the 00’s to the 0550’s. Thats the good news, the bad news is that with all of the South and Southwest winds of the past week the water temps have warmed up dramatically. And with the warm waters the Sea Fleas have EXPLODED. Fishing has changed from high in the water column to fishing very deep in the column. Add to this that its a very early bite and the fishing becomes a challenge. For starters if youve got flea-flicker line now is the time to use it, if not now might be the time to invest in some. The temp was 60 degrees at 80′ this AM. Riggers from 70 to 125′ ft down with moonshine early and then big rotators later. Rotators and big paddles with meatless teasers or meat on the wire divers from 175′ out to 230′. Cores, core and a half, 300 coppers and 400 coppers with mag spoons in Blue dolphin, raspberry carbon, yellowtails, Bad Toads all took fish. Good Fishin….Capt Ed