Captain Dave James from Fish Hunter Charters reports from Frankfort:

Captain Dave James  from Fish Hunter Charters reports from Frankfort:

Fishing has picked up this week with good catches of trout/salmon.  Took my 3 year old out for 2 hours and he caught 3 kings and 2 lake trout.  130 fow seems to be the best, with regular size spoons 30-80 down.

Captain Ron Westrate of CoHooker Charters reports from Saugatuck:

During the week most of the best fishing was in the 150 to 200 foot of
water with good numbers of fish, but many of the fish were small. On our
run out on Sunday we saw bait in 65 and 70 foot of water so we set lines
in 90 foot of water with the intent of trolling on out to the 200 foot
depth, however we started getting hits in 100 foot of water and took our
first salmon in 120 foot depth and another in 130 foot so we decided to
turn back and try this 100 to 120 foot depth. In past years, this 100
foot depth has been the depth that the salmon tend to stage in and they
usually stage just outside the bait. We were 10 for 20 or 25 (we also
lost 3 fish at the net) with 5 salmon and 5 lake trout and the largest
salmon weighed in at 20 pounds and another at 13 pounds. Boats did
fairly well in the deeper water, however from the radio traffic, the
fish ran a little smaller than those we had inside.

Our best methods were:
100 copper with craigs christmas stinger that had 3 hits
200 copper with a glow wonderbread stingray went 2 times.
200 copper with mixed veggie stingray went 3 times
300 copper with a blue/silver prochip flasher and blue hypnotist fly
produced one nice lake trout.
The downriggers produced fish with metal flashers and flies run on the
bottom.
The high dipsy (120 foot out) and (low dipsy 80 foot out) both produced
hits with flashers and flies on the low dipsys and magnum stingers
(green dolphin and carmel dolphin ) on the high dipsies.

If we hold the bait in the 70 foot depth, we should continue to find the
fish in the 100 foot depth. For more information or for charter
reservations, email me at captron@chartermichigan.com.

Captain Ed Stowe of Stowaway Charters reports from Ludington:

The spring kings left the pierheads but are now BACK again. The Kings are from straight out, to north to the Three Bears. Dreamweaver Super Slim Mixed Veggies, Red Monkey Puke, Garys Dolphin and Blue Dolphin are all working right now. Blue bubble spinnies and Blue Fairway flies on the wire divers. Yeck Lightnings and Polecats are good bets for the spring kings either on the riggers or behind the three color or 5 color cores and coppers. The water in the Lake is super clear so we have to get the baits far behind the boards.

Captain Bill Winowiecki of Watta Bite Charters reports from Glen Arbor:

The summer fishing season is gearing up in Glen Arbor.  The water is still very  cold ,  41 degree surface temperature was common over the Memorial Day weekend.

The Lake Trout fishing is very good.  Trolling very slow over 30-60  foot of water seem to be [...]

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

WOW! Not only has the weather gotten hot, the fishing is on fire! Average fish hit rates exceeded 5/hour both Sunday and Monday. Lots of doubles, triples, and even a couple of 5 on at once. Catches continue to be a good mix of salmon, steelhead and lake trout. The 3 year old salmon have been running 8-12 pounds with the 4 year olds 14-20. The steelhead have been averaging 4-7 pounds with an occasional 10+. The lake trout have been 4-15 pounds. All of the fish look very healthy.

170-200 FOW continues to produce fish; however, we did even better in 230+ the last 2 trips. Other boats were doing well in 100-130. We continued to concentrate the top 30 feet exclusively with orange/gold spoons on board lines, high divers and outriggers, catching mostly steelhead. However, a few salmon and lake trout were also caught up high. Downriggers at 80 and 100 feet using regular & super slim Dream Weaver spoons in dark colors took salmon and lake trout. Also, the coyote flasher with a green glow fly worked well on the deep downrigger later in the morning.

As long as the weather cooperates, we should continue this exceptional fishing run well into June. Typically by the second half of June fishing slows down. Hopefully this year, it won’t slow down.

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

Fishing continues to be excellent here in Grand Haven!
We are catching fish from 90 ft. out 160 ft.
We are fishing the top 60 ft. of water.

We have been running cores and copper.

We have been using quite a variety of spoons. We are getting especially good hits on oranges. Also, blues and greens have been good for us.

We are catching all season classes of chinook up to 18 lbs.