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

Lake Trout fishing is fair to good. 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 50 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 fair fishing 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 are working.

Steelhead fishing is fair to 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 55 feet of water and work out to 160 feet of water as the sun comes up.

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 70 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 70 feet down.

Try for perch South by the cemetery or by Wagner Park using minnows.

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

Walleye fishing is fair to good fishing 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 are working.

Lake Trout fishing is picking back up. Try straight out, South and North of the harbor using the dodgers with spin and glows or flys close to the bottom. Use clean spoons off the downriggers. Fish 60 feet down to the bottom for best results. Start fishing in 90 feet of water and work your way out to the deeper water till you find them.

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 55 feet of water and work out as the sun comes up to 160 feet of water.

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 still being taken straight out and North of the harbor fishing the 80 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 70 feet down.

Try for perch South by the cemetery or by Wagner Park using minnows.

Every Saturday Harbor Beach Light House Tours will be available. The time is from 10am to 1 pm, weather permitting from the Harbor Beach City Marina. Call 989-479-9707 or 810-542-0426 for more information. We welcome you to come enjoy a wonderful tour of our great lakes lighthouse that will let you take a walk back in time. You will even see some of the original furniture used by the lighthouse keepers. So don’t forget your camera! The view from the top of the lighthouse is breath taking! Tennis shoes or soft soled shoes are recommended. Tickets are $20 and can be purchased on site or in advance. There is a reservation list so if you would like to reserve your spot in advance just give the marina a call and you can do so by phone.

Captain Ed Stowe of Stowaway Charters reports from Ludington:

The fishing is as good as it has been all season long. The water has cooled down and the fish are in the skinny waters at the point. There are also good numbers of salmon at the pierheads, and in front of the Lincoln. The salmon are in Pere Marquette Lake and the Pere Marquette River. Moonshine spoons are the baits of choice, with spinnies and flies and Plugs a close second. 100 and 150 coppers and low wire divers from 40′ back to 60′ are also producing. 3 colors, 4 colors and the secret weapon with a plug is doing very well right now. The pierheads are best from first light to dark at night. During the day the best fishing is from the 3500#s out to the 4300#s in the 5400#s up to the 5800#s.

Good Fishin…..Capt Ed

Capt. Dave Myers of Cyndie Sue Charters reports from Holland:

Salmon fishing improved this past week. More fish and much more aggressive with some 4-year olds topping 20 lbs. Even had a couple of break-offs on 20lb. test line. There was also a nice mix of decent sized steelhead & lake trout. Some days, the fish were still biting well into the afternoon. Best depths were 80 to 110 FOW early, then 110 to 130 later in the day. Earlier in the week, we found a nice school of fish out in 190 to 225. Best baits were regular size Silver Streaks (green & blue chilly willies, green & blue dolphins), Stinger Stingrays (mixed veggies, blue mixed veggies, NBK, green & blue dolphins), Moonshine (flounder ponder, NBK), and green/white glow Spin Doctors with a green glow fly. One day they wanted blue, the next would be green. Some days color didn’t seem to matter. Most productive setups were lead core fished with 8, 10, & 12 colors. Dipsys set at 1 ½, 120’ back also did well, as did down riggers set at 45, 60, & 90.’ Free sliders did well on some days. Copper was the only setup that did not do very well on most days.

Also, there has been a persistent north current running between ½ & ¾ mph. Most days it was hard to get fish to bite going south. However, on Sunday we discovered how to get the south troll working. While fighting a big king for almost ½ hour, we slowed way down to 1 ½ mph per GPS. We took 3 other fish during this time. It was hard to believe as we were almost completely still, barely moving with the current. The Stinger Stingrays spoons and the Spin Doctor/fly still worked enough to get the fish to bite.

Perch fishing was good up until Sunday. They were in 30 to 35’ both north & south. Not sure where they went on Sunday. Lots of boats were out there looking, but didn’t hear of anybody finding them.

As we head into the middle of August, the fishing should only get better. Hopefully the warm weather won’t mess up the fall run like it did last year. I can be contacted at cyndiesuecharters@comcast.net for more information or to inquire about reserving a fishing trip.

Capt. Frank Piku From Captain Franks Fishing Charters reports from Lake St. Clair

This has been a family fishing week, with many young boys, and girls fishing aboard GOLDEN STREAK with there Fathers, Grandfathers, and Uncles too. Great to see a 8 year old girl bait her hook and even take off the fish and put them in the cooler.

It has been a hot bite with both Walleyes, Smallmouth Bass, Perch and even Muskie.

Fishing near the South channel on the American side of Lake St. Clair we are finding schools of Walleyes and Bass too. A record 7lb Bass was landed by 9 year old Scout. Father was happy he didn’t want it mounted. All the boys caught there Fathers limit of Bass with lots of Perch also. Youngster under 18 years of age don’t need a fishing license and fish under there dads.

We had our best luck along the reef of the Canadian Shore.

We only trolled for Muskies on one trip for about an hour and, this 15 year old caught his first Muskie. His dad said we would be back for a muskie trip this fall.

Its great to see Fathers bring there Sons, Daughters too, having fun fishing, and not just computer games.

Every trip this week produced limit catches. We had lots of fish cleaning to do, for family fish fries.

Call me to take your family or your fishing buddies on a hot fishing trip

Captain Frank Piku 305 509 1547

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

Walleye fishing is good, 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, or crawler harnesses should work.

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 as the sun comes up to 140 to 160 feet of water.

Lake Trout fishing has been on the slow side with the continued storms going through,but should pick back up shortly. Try straight out South and North of the harbor using the dodgers with spin and glows or flys close to the bottom. Use clean spoons off the downriggers. Fish 50 foot 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.

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 still being taken straight out and North of the harbor fishing 100 to150 foot 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 70 feet down.

Try for perch South by the cemetery