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

Fishing has been very good this week.
We are fishing from 75 ft. out to 120 ft. of water.
We are fishing from 30 ft. down to 60 ft.

Assorted spoons have been working very well for us: Among those are oranges, blues, orange crush, blue dolphin, green dolphin, and mixed veggies.

This week spinnies and flies have started to turn the fish on.
We are using blue spinnies w/blue flies, green spinnies w/green flies, and white paddles w/white flies.

Coast Guard festival continues this week and Grand Haven is a very busy place to be.
If you are interested in booking with us, please contact us at: www.dannmariecharters.com or dannmarie2@aol.com.

Capt. Ron Westrate of First Call 2 Charters reports from Saugatuck:

We found out this past week that we are not use to fighting salmon after
weeks of lake trout fights. Getting 6 to 10 salmon and steelhead hits on
a trip resulted in1 to 4 silver fish in the creel with copper breaking
or fish just being lost because of the drag being to tight or too much
slack in the line. We have gotten lazy fighting the trout. The catch
was still good with 10 to 20 fish per trip, however the lake trout
numbers still dominated the catch.

The silver fish are coming on the 150, 200 and 300 copper with orange
crush, green dolphin and sunburst stingrays. They are also hitting the
high divers at 150 and 180 foot with white slick glow E chip, silver UV
mountain dew E chip and davey jones E chip with a rapture no see um fly
with yellow beads. The lake trout continue to come on gold star dodgers
(silver and yellow) with white, yellow and green spin n glows and
rapture green hypnotist flies.

Perch fishing has been fair to excellent, depending on your location.
Limit catches are being reported from 10 miles south of the Saugatuck
piers to just south of the Douglas Point in 25 to 40 foot of water.
Decent catches of perch were also reported from the Holland piers to
south of Castle Park in 30 to 40 foot of water. I saw one catch today
(from south of the point) that consisted of over 100 perch with the
smallest being 9 in and the largest pushing 14 in.

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

Capt. Ron Westrate of First Call 2 Charters reports from Saugatuck:

If you like lake trout fishing, you would love the fishing this past
week. 80 to 90 percent of the creel consisted of lake trout with the
rest made up of chinook and steelhead. The best fishing continues to be
in 70 to 100 foot of water, however there were some boats that fished
all the way out to 300 foot of water for the silver fish.

We are fishing the downriggers on the bottom with Silver Horde Gold Star
Flashers and green Rapture Flies (wild fern and green hypnotist) and
yellow and green spin n glows. The dipsy divers were run at 180 foot on
the high divers and 160 foot or more on the low divers with silver Pro
Troll flashers (silver UV, Davey Jones and silver prism) and Rapture
flies (no see um with yellow beads). The 150 foot and 200 foot copper
produced some silver fish with stingray lures (NBK, carmel dolphin and
blue veggie) while the 300 copper produced some chinook with silver and
silver mountain dew flashers and no see um yellow beaded flies.

There was some good reports on the perch, however you may have to run to
get there. The last part of the week produced some limit catches 9 miles
south of the Saugatuck piers in 20 to 30 foot of water. Morning fishing
is much more productive than mid day. Today the boat J Bird caught their
limit of 70 fish that ranged from 8 to 14 in. I did talk to one boat
that caught some perch north of the piers off the state park in 40 foot,
but boats that fished there today did not fare well.

For fishing information or to book a charter, email me at
captron@chartermichigan.com.

Captain Ron Westrate of CoHooker Charters reports from Saugatuck:

A good week of fishing that started out in 250 foot of water and ended
in 15 foot of water. The first part of the week found us 9 miles out in
250 foot of water fishing Coho, Chinook Salmon and Steelhead. Creel
numbers varied from 8 to 15 fish per trip however strong north, north
east and north west wind during the week produced some rough conditions
and ultimately cooler water. By Friday the surface temperature had
dropped into the low 50 degrees and bait and steelhead had collected at
the pier heads. On Friday, Saturday and Sunday we fished 10 to 20 foot
of water and caught 8 to 13 steelhead per trip with an occasional
Chinook salmon thrown in.

Out deep the pattern was flashers and flies on 200, 300 and 450 foot of
copper, dipsy divers and downriggers. The best combinations included Hot
Chip flashers (silver and silver and mountain dew) with Rapture flies
(green mirage and oceana). Once we move inshore, the pattern was all
spoons on 2 color and 3 color lead core, and dipsy divers and
downriggers. Any spoon would work as long as it had silver and orange on
it and was the size of the stinger lures. The best lures for us were the
stinger fruit cocktail, double orange crush and jaw breaker. On Friday
we were 11 for 35, on Saturday we were 6 for 24 and today we were 13 for
26. On Saturday, fishermen were walking off the South Saugatuck pier
with stingers full of steelhead.

New report on the perch fishing: Limit catches of perch were reported
Saturday evening and Sunday morning. The problem is that the location is
9 miles south of the Saugatuck piers off of Glenn. I talked to boats
that caught 75+ perch last night and got their limit again today and the
perch were running 7 to 12 in. in length.

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

Fishing continues to be good here in Grand Haven.
However, this week the storms have gotten the waters all churned up and we are really needing to work extra hard to get our catches up to where we want them to be. Hopefully, the waters will settle down in a day or so, and we can get back to regular fishing.

We have been fishing from 200 ft. out to 300 ft. of water. We are fishing 50 ft. down to 90 ft.

We are using various spoons: lots of blues.
Oranges have been good for our Steelhead.
Also, using some spinnies and flies.

We got a mixed bag today: Chinook, Cohos, Steelhead and as well as Lake Trout.

The weather is expected to really warm up for the remainder of the week and we are anticipating good catches, along with that.

Captain Ron Westrate of CoHooker Charters reports from Saugatuck:

Another good week of fishing in Saugatuck with good catches of Lake Trout in 100 foot of water and some salmon and steelhead showing up in 180 to 240 foot of water. The lake trout fishing is still good but not as consistent as in the last few weeks, with catches of 10 to 18 fish per trip with some more salmon showing up in the catch. The silver fish are showing up in the deeper water with some very good catches of up to 20 fish. This fishing is not consistent and you catch them one day and then struggle the next.

If you are planning on fishing the 100 foot depth, go with the Silver Horde metal flashers (silver and yellow) with Green Dude Rapture flies and green spin n glows on the downriggers and low divers. We ran silver Pro Troll flashers and Rapture Oceana, Blue Fern and Wild Fern on the high divers and on the 400 copper and these produced the silver fish along with more Lake Trout. In the deeper water the fish were in the top 60 foot of water consisting of 8-23 lb. salmon and steelhead up to 14 lbs. 200 FOW to 275 FOW. Lots of blue: blue veggie, flying dutchman, blue thunder, dr. hook stinger and stingray sizes. This is the first plug bite with chart. with blue splatter back Ace-Hi. Other boats caught fish on no-see-um flies behind chart. with glow flashers. Hopefully these are the salmon and steelhead we’ve been waiting for, now moving in from middle of the lake.

If you have questions or wish to make charter reservations, email me at captron@chartermichigan.com.