Bending Limits Sportfishing Charters of Saugatuck Michigan reports excellent catches of Coho on body baits-on flat lines, 1,2,3,4,5 colors of lead core with copper back mini streaks have been very good. We’re also catching fishing down deep. anywhere from 55 to 280 feet down on the downriggers!!! These fish seem to like spin doctors and Big Weenie flies. Our best fly as always is the Proctologist. These fish really seem to change the baits they’re biting on, on a daily basis. One day they really want the flies, the next they seem to love the spoons. The key right now is it run as many rods as possible, with as many different baits to start out with, and let the fish tell you what they want!<a … [Read more...]
08-03-2014 Southern Lake Michigan:
Director SLM Captain Ron Westrate From First Call 2 Charters reports from Saugatuck: The Kings have shown up in Saugatuck. What a difference from the first part of the week to the weekend with creels containing more and more Chinook salmon each day. We started the week with very cold water and catches consisting of mainly Lake Trout but a few salmon and steelhead in the mix. By the weekend the catches consisted of limit catches of Chinook salmon and Steelhead and an occasional Lake Trout mixed in. On Saturday, our group from Louisville, Ky. Caught 25 fish of which only 3 were Lake Trout. That group, (fishing 3 days) took over 400 pounds of fillets back to Louisville to feed the friends and families. The salmon and steelhead are being caught from 10 to 50 foot down in 100 to 160 foot of water. 50 foot, 100 foot, 200 foot, and 300 foot of copper with orange stingers, Silver Horde plugs and flashers and flies all produced well at different times during the day. Down riggers 40 and … [Read more...]
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