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. Ken Deaton of J-Lyn Charters reports from Harbor Beach:

Lake Trout fishing continues to be very good straight out and North of the harbor. The clean spoons off the downriggers, and flashers or dodgers with flys or spin and glows close to the bottom are still working well. Fish 40 foot down to the bottom for best results. Best colors have been purple, pinks, green, blue, and black. Start fishing in 80 feet of water and work your way out to the deeper water.

Steelhead fishing is spotting but should continue to get better with some warmer weather finally here. Try running some long lines with the Offshore boards with clean spoons. Best colors have been bright colors of orange, pinks, greens and yellows. You can run some three ways with a body bait on the bottom and spoon on the top or try some 2, 5, and 8 color lead lines as well. Try to find the color lines and fish them.

Brown Trout are still being taken in close to shore working the 25 to 45 foot of water areas South of the harbor. Body baits and clean spoons are working, try perch, green, and blue colors.

Some salmon continue to be taken South, straight out and North of the harbor. For best results, fish clean spoons off the downriggers 45 to 85 feet down. Good colors have been silver, greens, black, glows, and blues. Also try some flashers with flys off the dowriggers or dipsey divers as well. Start in 65 feet of water and work out till you find where they are setting.

If you want to try for some walleye try North of the harbor working in close to shore, 30 to 60 feet of water. Clean small spoons or crawler harnesses should work.

Try for the perch by the lighthouse or South by the cemetery using minnows in 20 to 30 feet of water.

Keep those lines tight!

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.

Captain Ron Westrate of CoHooker Charters reports from Saugatuck:

Fishing off of Saugatuck was good to excellent over the weekend. Very
nice catches 15+ fish on Friday with a lot of action, then a little
slower on Saturday. Early in the week the fish averaged 12 pounds,
however by the weekend the fish ran a 7 to 10 pounds average. Same
place, same depth, same lures, just a different age class of fish.

Fish were in 110-180 FOW, and were caught 20-60 feet down. 100, 200, and
300 copper lines were the best with stinger and sting ray spoons.
Stingers and sting rays were also producing on the downriggers 30-60
feet down, and on the divers 150 and 100 feet with wire. Best spoons:
mixed veggies, jager bomb, blue modified dolphin, green dolphin, caramel
dolphin, orange crush (on silver or gold), and the lemon-ice. Very
little action on flashers and flies.

We’re hoping for a little west wind to stack the warm water back up on
the beach. This will concentrate the temperature break and the fish. For
fishing information or charter reservations, contact me by email at
captron@chartermichigan.com.

Capt. Ken Deaton of J-Lyn Charters reports from Harbor Beach:

Lake Trout fishing is good straight out and North of the harbor. Try clean spoons off the downriggers, and flashers or dodgers with flys or spin and glows close to the bottom. Fish 40 foot down to the bottom for best results. Best colors have been purple, green, blue, and black. Start fishing in 80 feet of water and work your way out to the deeper water

Some salmon continue to be taken South, straight out and North of the harbor. For best results, fish clean spoons off the downriggers 40 to 80 feet down. Good colors have been silver, blue, greens and black. Also try some flashers with flys off the dowriggers or dipsey divers as well. Start in 60 feet of water and work out till you find where they are setting

Brown Trout are still being taken in close to shore working the 25 to 45 foot of water areas South of the harbor. Body baits and clean spoons are working, try perch, green, and blue colors…

Steelhead fishing is slow but should continue to pick up. Put out some long lines with the Offshore boards, try clean spoons, and body baits. Best colors have been bright orange, pinks, greens and yellows. Try some 2, 5, and 8 color lead lines as well.

If you want to try for some walleye try North of the harbor working in close to shore, 30 to 40 feet of water.

Try for the perch by the lighthouse or South by the cemetery using minnows in 20 to 30 feet of water.

Capt. Bruce Bronner from Kathys Boyz 3 Charters reports from Bolles Harbor:

Fishing has been slow for walleyes. 1 to 4 being taken out at the dump and MI and Ohio line.

Perch have pick up in front of Bolles Harbor with limits catch coming in. All nice fish!