The fishing this past week has slowed some what, however we still caught between 7 to 12 fish per trip. The creel consisted of chinook salmon that weighed over 20 pounds and lake trout over 12 pounds and an occasional steelhead. The best depth was again the 80 to 90 foot depth however by the weekend we also caught fish out to 160 foot of water. There are some fishermen that are going out at 4 in the morning and taking some nice fish in 50 to 60 foot of water.
Early in the week we had some good luck with 200 copper, however by the end of the week we fished primarily 300 and 400 foot of copper with Ace Hi plugs (glow green lightning, glow black lightning, green glow, green glow ladderback and wonderbread). The divers are pulled at 100 and 200 foot early in the day and then lengthened out to 300 and 200 foot as it get brighter. On the divers we are pulling echip flashers (white blue wiggle, white glow mountain dew, green silver and white slick glow) with Rapture flies (oceana, no see um green, green hypnotist, and last supper). On the downriggers we are fishing near the bottom and pulling 11 in echips (white glow, white slick glow and white mountain dew) with Rapture green flies (green hypnotist and wild fern).
With the rough water conditions on Sunday, we did not fish so it will be interesting to see what happened to the water temperature on Monday. For information or charter reservations, email me at captron@chartermichigan.com.