Captain Ron Westrate of CoHooker Charters reports from Saugatuck:

It has been an interesting week for fishing with rain, high winds, rough
water but some very good fishing if you can handle the conditions. The
best fishing during the week was in the 80 to 100 foot depth with about
50% of the catch consisting of salmon and the rest lake trout. Today we
set lines in 75 foot of water and while we trolled out to 135 foot of
water we expertly missed the first 3 fish and then followed that by
loosing the next 4 fish we had on. We ended going 7 for 18 or 20 with 6
salmon and 1 lake trout. .

The hits were scattered around the boat including 150, 200 and 300
copper, downrigger and dipsy divers. The Stingray Orange Corey had 2
hits on the 150 copper and the 200 copper with the glow wonderbread
Stingray had 3 hits. The downrigger at 40 foot with the Stinger bloody
nose produced 2 hits and the Stinger fruit cocktail, on the add a line,
had 1 hit. The other downrigger was run at 50 foot and the gold Stinger
watermelon on the add a line was hit twice. The rest of the hits were
distributed around the boat with Stingrays on the copper lines and
Stingers lures on the downrigger and high divers.(at 200 and 180 foot
out). Only one hit on a flasher and fly and we missed that. This week
is the first week that we had bait in the stomachs of the salmon with
adult alewife in most of them.

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

Captain Ed Stowe of Stowaway Charters reports from Ludington:

With the north wind of the last few days the temp on the point has changed to icewater. The Kings are from straight out to down 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. White spinnies and Noseeum flies on the wire divers. Yeck Lightnings and Whopper Stompers 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.

Good Fishin…..Capt Ed

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

Fishing continues to be very good this week here in Grand Haven.
The fish report for this week is basically a copy cat report from last week.
Nothing has changed.

We are still finding our fish from 120 ft. out to 160 ft.
We are fishing the top 60 ft. of water.

Only one boat from our dock went out yesterday and he came back with 6 salmon, fishing the same waters.

The hot color continues to be orange and also green and blue for spoons.
It should be interesting to see what the water temperature changes will produce this weekend.

Capt Craig Kent From Killin Time Charters reports from Manistee:

Fishing is very good right now with mid sized Kings coming in big numbers. Fishing has been best in 80-150 feet of water straight out of the harbor and south. Fish the last couple days came on riggers between 35 and 65 down and leadcore from 5-10 colors plus divers out 100 or more. Our best baits have been Stinger Nitro Area 51 and Carmel Dolphin.

Capt. Jon Kolehouse of Hat Trick Charters reports from Ludington:

The fishing the last few days has been nothing short of outststanding!! Morning and afternoon trips have produced limit or near limit catches of King Salmon up to 18 lbs. These fish are so hungry and aggressive the bites have been great with fish hooking up very well! With cold water top to bottom the fish have been coming off short 5 color lead cores all the way down to the bottom. If you are looking for the best fighting fish of the year now is the time! These fish are MEAN!!!!

The best depths have been from 75-150 foot of water north of Ludington.

Top baits have been

White flashers and with pickled sunshine or mirage flies

Silver Streak sponge bob spoon in both reg. and magnum

Yeck starburst was smokin on 5-7 colorsMoonshine green flounder pounder in the reg. size was good set as a fixed slider

We have openings ….call soon

Tight lines and heavy coolers

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

Fishing remained very good this past week. The two main schools of salmon were in 80 to 130 FOW & 170 to 230+ FOW. Lake trout and a few steelhead were also mixed in. Deep downriggers, free sliders, dipsys, & full lead core produced most of the fish. Best colors were glow crushed ice/pink spoons (Homemade) and magnum blue/green dolphin.

The main school of steelhead has now moved out to 300 FOW. Sunday’s off-shore steelhead trip resulted in an easy 5-man limit of steelhead. There was a nice temperature break (51 to 48) with a visible scum line full of trash and birds; perfect conditions for steelhead fishing. Any orange or gold spoon fished in the top 20 feet did well. Board lines with 2 oz. inline weights, dipsys set at 40 feet, and outriggers with high dipsys all produced steelhead.

We continue to be spoiled with the productive fishing options; salmon/trout close to shore, salmon/trout midrange, and steelhead off-shore.