Captain Ron Westrate of CoHooker Charters reports from Saugatuck:

The old saying that “fishing slows when the cotton flies” seems to
holding true. The fishing has definitely slowed down this last week
with catches of 4 to 8 fish per trip. You can catch some fish in 40 to
50 foot of water, 70 to 90 foot of water, 100 to 115 foot of water and
on out to 180 foot. A few fish scattered through out and no big
concentration anywhere. We took steelhead and salmon with half core and
100 foot of copper, salmon on 200 and 300 foot of copper and lake trout
and a few salmon on downriggers and deep divers.

The best lures continue to be orange Corey stingrays and orange crush
stingers on the 100 copper and NBK and carmel dolphin stingrays on the
200 and 300 copper. On the low divers we are running some flashers and
flies and the best combination continues to be the mountain dew Pro Chip
and purple no see um Rapture flies. To get catch the lake trout we are
using metal flashers and the Rapture green dude and last supper fly.

With the rough water and wind today, we may see a change in the water
and a grouping of the fish around the bait. Hopefully the fishing will
begin to improve. For information and/or charter reservations, email me
at captron@chartermichigan.com.

Captain Ed Stowe of Stowaway Charters reports from Ludington:

From the project to the 0400s are the best waters lately. We are taking Chinook Salmon, Steelhead and Lake Trout. 3 Cores, 5 cores and 10 cores, 150′ and 300′ coppers are all taking fish. Surface temps are warming up with the recent nice weather. Dolphin spoons on the cores, lemon ice and green gloes on the riggers and spin doctors on the wire divers. We are taking fish all over in the water column on the riggers. The fish are very fiesty and give a good fight, although there are a lot of smaller fish in the area right now. Good Fishin….Capt Ed

Capt. Dan Tebo from D’Ann Marie Charters in Grand Haven reports:

We had a good Memorial Day Weekend. The weather cooperated until Monday when showers moved in and the tourists disappeared. Of course, after everyone had to go back to work on Tues, the sun once again came out and the weather warmed back up.
It was good to see people milling around the fish cleaning station as the boats returned with their catches.

We have been fishing from 120 feet out to 160 feet. We are getting fish from 40 ft. down to 80 ft.
The best lures have been the greens and blues. We had good luck with white spinnies and white flies.
We got fish using orange spoons up high.

We have been getting a mixed bag of Kings, Lake Trout and a few Steelhead.

We had a two-boat outing with ThunderDuck on Tuesday. We took out a group of high school special needs students from Thornapple Kellogg High School in Middleville.
They had a wonderful time. They never are told where they are going on their field trip at the end of school year until they get to their destination. They are so happy and it makes you really humble to see how thrilled they are as they each catch “their fish”. We have taken this group out for several years now and it is truly one of our best days on the lake! Even though the fishing was a little slow that day, the weather couldn’t have been better and the kids couldn’t have been happier. We learn a little something each time they go out with us …..mostly that we need to slow down and “smell the roses” like those kids do!

On Thursday of this week, we will participate in the St. Jude’s fishing event and then on this upcoming weekend, Grand Haven will be hosting the Offshore Challenge. It is one of the largest events on Lake Michigan. It runs from June 4th. thru June 6th. Come on over and see the amount of fish caught and which boats end up as the top winners, in both the AM and PRO divisions.

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

Limits of Lake Trout are still being taken straight out, North and South of the harbor on Dodgers and Spin and glows fished right down on the bottom. Continue using the medium and large size spoons off the downriggers as well. Best colors continue to be glow in the dark, pink with white dots, yellow, green, and black colors. Work the 60 to 130 foot of water areas for best results.
Steelhead are being taken out on the color lines in 90 to 120 feet of water, try the new Offshore Tadpoles on with your monofilament lines to get them down deeper. The Offshore boards are also working well with 5 and 10 color lead lines with bright color spoons.
Coho, Pinks, and King Salmon are still being taken mixed in with the Lake Trout using medium and magnum size spoons off the boards and downriggers from 30 to 70 foot down in the same depth of water. Again try adding Tadpole weights with spoons off the Offshore boards to get the lines down deeper.
Perch fishing should start picking up. Try by the Light House and along the channel inside the harbor with minnows and night crawlers. You might want to try South of the harbor by the cemetery in 20 to 40 feet of water as well.
Walleye fishing has slowed down a bit but best areas will be off the North wall early morning and late evening casting small body baits and spoons. Try the green, silver and blue colors. Also try trolling out in 18 to 40 feet of water with crawler harnesses, small spoons and small body baits.

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