Captain Ed Stowe of Stowaway Charters reports from Ludington:

Hola, Back from the Mayan Resort and Spa 100 miles south of Cancun. My daughter got married in a destination ceremony and Sue and I vacationed for a week. Went out on a charter and caught my first Sailfish, 9 1/2 ft and 95 lbs. Very exciting and lots of fun.

The fishing has slowed considerably in the last week. The salmon are elusive and on the smaller side. The temperature at the point is 62 on the surface and 48 down 95 ft. The fish are spread all over the water column. Meat rigs are the baits of choice, with the old Lake Trout favorites producing as well. Best fishing is from the brine well up to the three bears in from 80 ft out to the 4400 numbers. It is a bitter pill to swallow when you have to run 25 miles out to catch fish, especially with gas prices as high as they have ever been. We have to add a gas surcharge for those long runs.

Good Fishin…..Capt Ed

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

Fishing continues to improve after a couple weeks of low catches in our area. This is very normal for June. We eagerly await July and August.

We had an excellent catch today! We caught our fish in 250 ft. of water.
The guys in our area are fishing from 120 ft. out to… “as far as you are willing to go”.

We caught fish from 60 ft. down to 90 ft.
We used a real variety of baits: Mixed Veggie, and Blue and Green Dolphins were very good for us.
Our Steelhead really liked a variety of Oranges today.

We caught Coho, Kings, Steelhead, and also Lake Trout today.

If you would like to book a trip with us, please call us at: 616-846-3700 or visit our website : www.dannmariecharters.com for further info.

Captain Ron Westrate of CoHooker Charters reports from Saugatuck:

Another interesting week of fishing out of Saugatuck. Early in the week
we fished 80 to 90 foot of water with good catches of Lake Trout and a
couple of Chinook Salmon. Water temperature was 41 degrees on the bottom
and bait suspended in 65 to 70 foot of water. Wednesday the bottom water
temperature increase to 51 degrees and after the blow on Thursday the
bottom temperature was 61 degrees. On Saturday the temperature was back
in the low 50’s and we went back to pounding the bottom in 90 to 100
foot of water. Saturday we took 12 fish, 10 legal Lake Trout, 1 18 in.
Lake Trout and one 13 pound Chinook Salmon.

The best methods included metal (silver and white) flashers with the
green hypnotist Rapture Fly and spin and glows on the downriggers
pounding bottom. The Salmon were caught a little higher in the water
column on the dipsy diver at 150 and 180 foot of line out with blue
wiggle and silver mountain dew Hot Chip flasher and the Rapture blue
bubble fly. We also had some action on the 450 coppers with a silver
blue Hot Chip Flasher and Rapture mirage fly, however the 95% of the
activity was on the downriggers and and dipsy divers.

On Saturday we ventured out to 160 foot of water and the bait was
unbelievable suspended out in this water. It was so thick that it would
error out the graph for 100 feet or more. There were fish marked and
caught out in this water, however, most of the action was in the 90 to
100 foot depth. With all the bait off shore, I have to believe that the
salmon are going to find them and then it should get interesting.

For more information or for charter reservations, email me at
captron@chartermichigan.com.

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

We did not fish out of Holland last week as we were in Marathon, Florida on vacation.

Fished off-shore Monday (6-20) trying to find the steelhead. Set up in 265 FOW, fished our way out to 350 FOW. The water looked very good. Lots of slicks, bugs and cottonwood fuzz. Water temperature went from 62 to 56. Surprisingly, the fish were scattered. Ended up going 8 for 12 with most fish taken on high dipsey’s & board lines in the top 10 feet on a variety of orange/gold spoons.

Reports from other boats fishing near-shore for salmon & lake trout have not been very good. Also, the perch have not come in yet. They still seem to be scattered in 55 to 75 FOW.

Apparently, all the recent east winds have scattered all the fish. Hopefully, the winds will switch back to the west soon and school the fish closer in. I can be contacted at cyndiesuecharters@comcast.net for more information or to inquire about reserving a fishing trip.

Captain Ed Stowe of Stowaway Charters reports from Ludington:

The Kings are from the three sisters to north of the point to the three bears. There are a lot of nets from the 5250 #s to the 5050 #s. Dreamweaver Super Slim Mixed Veggies, Red Monkey Puke, Green Dolphin and Blue Dolphin are all working right now. Glo UV spinnies and Noseeum flies on the wire divers. Yeck Lightnings and PoleKats are good bets for the spring kings either on the riggers or behind the 5 color or 10 color cores and coppers. The water in the Lake is super clear so we have to get the baits far behind the boards.

Good Fishin…..Capt Ed

Capt Craig Kent From Killin Time Charters reports from Manistee:

A break showed up offshore a couple days ago and we were finally able to get out to it. The 35-37 line west held the temp break straight out and fishing was good for a mixed bag of Steelies, Kings and Lakers. These fish came primarily on 2, 3 and 5 color leadcore with free sliders and slide divers taking a coule of fish also. Best baits were regular sized Stingers in jawbreaker, mixed veggies, double orange crush gold blade and NBK. Bump your speed up to 3 or 3.5 for best results.