Capt. Ron Westrate of First Call 2 Charters reports from Saugatuck:

What a great week of fishing. Just about every day we would have at
least one salmon that would push or exceed 20 pounds. Today we caught a
24.5 pound, a 23.5 pound, a 19 pound and a 17 pound salmon in the 10
fish creel. The fish are located from 100 foot of water out to 160 foot
of water from the Holland piers to south of the Douglas point. Mixed in
with the chinook salmon are some coho, steelhead and lake trout.

Downriggers at 70, 80, and 100 foot down are producing with flashers and
flies. The best are the Echip (silver green, davie jones glow, glow frog
and white and silver mountain dew) with Rapture wild fern, green
hypnotist and green beaded no see um flies. We did take some salmon on
the 11 in E chip but the best was the 8 in. Our best method continues to
be the dipsy divers at 200 foot and 250 foot out with the same flashers
and flies we used on the downriggers. 300 and 450 foot of copper lines
did well also with flashers and flies on the 450’s and Stingray lures
(green dolphin, blue green dolphin and mixed veggie-all with glow backs)
on the 300’s.

For fishing information and/or charter reservations, email me at
captron@chartermichigan.com.

Captain Ed Stowe of Stowaway Charters reports from Ludington:

Fishing is on again off again at the point. The good news is that after the AM bite just point the boat west and troll out to the 3800s out to the 5000s and the fish are there. There is a mixed bag of Kings, Cohos, Steelhead and an occasional Lake trout. Moonshine spoons are the baits of choice early, then spoons spinnies and meat rigs after the morning bite. Plugs are starting to heat up. 100 and 150 cores and low wire divers from 70′back to 90′, and high wires from 120′ to 130′ are also producing. The secret weapon with a plug is doing very well right now. The pierheads are best from first light to dark at night. PM lake is doing very good with some nice catches on meat rigs. During the day the best fishing is from the 3500#s out to the 4900#s in the 5400#s up to the 0450#s.

Good Fishin…..Capt Ed

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

Steelhead fishing is good, fish the color lines for best results. Keep your lines up high. Put out some long lines on the boards, bright colors of spoons, small, and regular sizes for best results, fishing straight out and North of the harbor, start in 65 feet of water and work out to 160 feet of water as the sun comes up.

Lake Trout fishing is fair. Try straight out, South and North of the harbor using the dodgers with spin and glows or flys close to the bottom. Try clean spoons off the downriggers. Fish 45 feet down to the bottom for best results. Start fishing in 80 feet of water and work your way out to the deeper water till you find them.

Walleye fishing is slowing down, try North of the harbor and North of Port Hope working in close to shore, 25 to 50 feet of water. Clean small spoons, hot n tots, and crawler harnesses will be best.

Bass and Pike are still being taken casting or trolling spoons and body baits in close to shore or inside the harbor. Fishing around the weed beds is still giving the best results.

A few Salmon are being taken straight out and North of the harbor fishing the 60 to120 feet of water areas. Work deeper as the sun comes up. Clean spoons off the lead lines, dipseys, and downriggers are all working. Fish 15 to 60 feet down.

Try for perch South

Capt. Drew Morris, of Margie J Sport Fishing Charters out of Muskegon, reports:

Fishing out of Muskegon has been fantastic for the past several days and should continue. Some nice size 4 year olds being taken between the arms out to about 60 fow but the best fishing has been deeper. From 100 to 140 has been the best as of late with catch numbers in the high teens and low twenties not uncommon. We have also been doing well between 200 & 280 fow. We have been taking nice 8-10 pound kings with 20+ pounders mixed in along with some nice steelhead and cohos.

Despite being quite rough the last few days the key seems to be a fast troll with and against the wave action. Going with the waves has been a little better for us than against them. Speeds up to 3.5 mpg sog have been the most productive or 3.3 mph at the bait. When it’s rough and if you have trolling bags run them. They will keep your speed a little more consistent against and with the waves.

Spoons on riggers and copper have been the most productive. Spoons include Stinger Pox, Blue Bubble, Black Screw Ball, Steelie Stomper, Gin & Tonic, Trophy Winner, and Blue Monkey Puke w/ glow tape. Flashers include Stinger’s NBK flasher w/ green/glow Hypnotist Rapture Fly. We have been running it on both our high divers at 120 &140 back on 3 and have been hot. On the low divers run small white flashers w/ frosted fern trolling fly. We have also been taking our biggest kings on the 11 inch scallop white flasher with the Rapture Oceana Fly down 100-125 deep on our shoot rigger. It has taken several kings over 20 pounds.

The best depths have been 25-55 down. Run your core, copper, dipseys and riggers in that depth range with the exception of 125 shoot rigger and hang on for some excellent action.

Good Luck… Capt. Drew

Capt. Dan Tebo, of D’ann Marie Charters in Grand Haven reports:

Fishing is very good in Grand Haven these days!
We are seeing large fish (in the 20 – 25 lb. range) being caught in our port and good, full boxes.

We are fishing from 75 ft. out to 120 ft. of water.
We are fishing from 35 ft. down to 50 ft.

We are mainly using a large variety of spoons: The fish seem to prefer mostly bright – colored spoons, so we try to give them what they want.
Spinnie and fly combos have also been very good:
Yellow spinnies w/ yellow flies
Green spinnies w/ green flies
White spinnies w/ white flies

There are very good catches of large kings being taken each day.
August is always an exciting time of year to see all the kings come in.
Summer is closing in fast and before we know it, Sept. will be here and gone and so will end our fishing season. So, if you get a chance to come out, don’t hesitate.

If you would like to fish with us in Sept., please feel free to contact me at: www.dannmariecharters.com

Capt. Ron Westrate of First Call 2 Charters reports from Saugatuck:

This past week was a very good week of fishing. Early in the week the
catch consisted of 80% lake trout and 20% silver fish and by the end of
the weekend we were taking 90% salmon and 10% lake trout. In addition
we were taking multiple 20+pound salmon almost ever trip. The best
depth continues to be 70 to 115 foot of water, however there were some
boats taking salmon out in 180 to 200 foot of water.

The methods that take the fish change from day to day as the conditions
and current change, however the lures and flashers remained the same.
Early in the day we were catching salmon on 150, 200 and some time on
100 foot copper with Area 51, ET, Orange Corey and glow back Mixed
Veggie Stingray. The downriggers produced at 40 ft. to 70 foot down
with Glow frog, white UV glow and Davie Jones glow E chip flashers and
Rapture no see um green beaded and green hypnotist flies. The most
consistent method continues to be the dipsy divers at 180 foot and 100
ft. with E chip flashers (Davie Jones, green side UV, silver mountain
dew and green UV) with either Rapture wild fern and no see um yellow
beaded flies.

For information or charter reservations, contact me by email at
captron@chartermichigan.com.