Captain Ron Westrate of CoHooker Charters reports from Saugatuck:

We had another good week of fishing even with the rough water and storms that moved through during the week. With the exception of today, we have been taking 8 to 20 fish every trip. Today we fished from 9 to 2 and had a total of one fish on a 400 foot copper. I hope this is due to the fact that we fished in the middle of the day since as a rule the fishing is better in the early hours of the morning and slows as the light increases. This week we caught a number of chinook salmon in the 16 to 20 pound range, a 14 pound steelhead, a 13 pound lake trout and a fantastic 18 pound brown trout.
Flashers and flies continue to produce very well when pulled on downriggers, dipsy divers and 300 and 400 copper. The best flashers are the Pro Troll (silver/green, silver mountain dew, white blue wiggle, white glow and silver blue) with Rapture flies (no see um green, oceana, blue bird, wild fern, green hypnotist and purple no see um). We also had some good luck with Ace Hi plugs (silver red head, green lightning and blue lightning) and Stingray blue dolphin and Nitro lures producing some nice steelhead on 200 and 300 copper.
Perch fishing continues to be spotty with some reports of decent catches in 40 to 50 foot of water out of Holland and 60 to 70 foot of water out of South Haven and 40 foot of water off of Glenn. Again, it has been spotty with the perch being caught at one depth one day but gone the next. There are a few perch being caught in the rocks off the Douglas point, however it is hard to get the bait past the golbies.
The bait is still in the 40 to 60 foot depth and out in 140 to 160 foot depth, so I hope this will hold the salmon and trout in the area. For information or charter reservations, email me at captron@chartermichigan.com .

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

Fishing is excellent in Grand Haven right now – when we can get out. The storms this past week made it difficult to fish. Either we were fighting waves and rain or we had to sit out the storms and go out after they passed. Today, we had to cancel our trips. Hopefully, we are done with the rain and wind for awhile.

We are still fishing in 95 ft. to 115 – 120 ft. of water. We are fishing from 65 ft. down to 90 ft.

We are using assorted paddles & flies and spinnies & flies.
An assortment of J-Plugs have been good for us, too
Blues and greens are still the color or choice.

We are catching King Salmon up to 20 lbs., steelhead, a few lake trout, and some browns.
This past week I got the “Grand Slam” on one of my charters.
A grand slam is catching all five species of fish on one trip. It consists of: brown trout, steelhead, lake trout, coho salmon and king salmon. Nice catch, good day!

Happy fishing to you all!
Capt. Dan

Captain Steve Hamilton of First Class Charters reports from Manistee.

Fishing in Manistee is great right now. Both evening and day time trips.
Going straight out and then to the 13’s-200 to 300 ft of water first thing
in the morning. Lots of nice catches with big Salmon!
Downriggers 65 to 75 ft down, lead core 10 to 18 colors and copper wire 250
to 300 ft.
Our best baits have been the meat rigs and atractors and the Moonshine lures
Yellow tail and Raz Carbon. Green/black glow spoons and the Silver Horde Ace
HI Green spackle.
Good Fishing!

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

The Salmon have arrived at the Mantiou Islands!!!!!!
Good catches of kings are being caught on both North and South Manitou.
The last couple of days it seems that anything you put in the water is
working. Orange crush spoons, glow spoons, and paddle fly
combinations are working well.

For those of you who don’t know, the Manitou Islands are the best kep
secret in Michigan. Very ligh boat trafffic, and a beautiful setting
around the Sleeping Bear National Lake Shore. Glen Arbor is the
closest port, to access South Manitou Island.

July and August are the best fishing months because the big kings are
gorging themselves on alewives to prepare for spawning.

Captain Bill Winowiecki
Watta Bite Charter Fishing
Glen Arbor Michigan
Port Captain Michigan Charter Boat

Captain Ed Stowe of Stowaway Charters reports from Ludington:

The fish are on the bank from the 00’s to the 0800’s. 80′ to 110′ to start out and then out to 140′ to 200′ as the day progresses. Moonshine and spindoctors early and then switch to meat after the morning bite. My best lately has been white spindoctor with a pickeled sunshine 100′ down on the shute rigger, DODEKAY 80 down on the outdown. I have been running meat on the wire divers starting at 125 on one and 150 on the other. Green splatterplugs and Grey Ghost on the 300 copper and on the full cores have been taking fish. There are also some Coho and steelhead straight out from 70′ to 125′. Good Luck to all in the tournament Good Fishin…..Capt Ed

Captain Steve Hamilton of First Class Charters reports from Manistee.

Fishing has been very good-both day and evening trips. As of today the fish
have moved up some and we do not have to fish as deep. Going straight out of
Manistee and some boats going a little south and some going a short distance
north. Both areas are good fishing right now!
Water depth 75 to 200 feet. Lead core 10 colors and short copper wire. Down
riggers are 45 to 70 down. Moonshine lures worked good, Hot lips, Carbon 14
and Raz carbon. Lots of meat rigs, this has been the best, with attractors.
Large DW Paddles and spin doctors. Spin doctor: Froggie and Dk green and
Hootchies: white cruch pearl and black.
The DW Paddles are the UV with tape on white or black and White crush tape
on white or black. KRW flys are the Witch Doctor, UV. and Riverside and Aqua
Glod Glow. Also a silver streak spoon black with different colored spots.
Try the Walker deep divers in black or kelly green.
Good Fishing to you!