Another good week of fishing--at least the first part of the week was good and then the wind came. Friday, Saturday and Sunday produced winds of 30 knots and waves of 3 to 7 foot water spouts and a current that made it very difficult to troll. Once again the catches ranged from 8 to 16 fish per trip with a mixed bag of lake trout, steelhead, coho and chinook salmon. The chinook salmon consisted of 2, 3 and 4 year old fish with the largest this week pushing 17 pounds. We also ran a perch charter this week and after 2 hours of looking for the perch and catching nothing but golbies, we found the fish caught 60 nice perch (a couple went 12 to 14 inches) in 1 1/2 hours in 46 foot of water.
The best methods continue to be flashers and flies on the divers and then plugs and Stingray lures on the copper lines. The best flasher was the white/glow echip and silver echip with green dude, green hypnotist and green noseeum and white pine Rapture flies. We caught fish on 100, 200, 300 and 400 foot of copper with magnum Stinger mixed veggie and with Stingray mixed veggie and glow sicle. We also caught some fish on silver green and easter egg Silver Horde plugs pulled behind the 100 and 200 foot copper line.
With all the north wind and north current, the water temperature is now (as of Sunday) down in the high 50 degrees. We will look in the shallow water tomorrow to see if the fish and bait have moved in front the piers. Check back and see what happens this week. For information and charter reservations, email me at captron@chartermichigan.com.