Fishing is about as good as it can get out of the port of Saugatuck. We ran 9 trips this past week and limited out on every one of the trips -- some within 3 hours. The fish (chinook and coho salmon, lake trout, steelhead and coho) were caught from 100 out to 200 foot of water and from 50 to 140 foot down. There was a mixed bag with 2, 3 and 4 year old chinook salmon, some 3 year old coho, steelhead up to 12 pounds and lake trout over 20 pounds. There are also some steelhead being caught on the south Saugatuck pier fishing with spawn and little cleos. Walleye and small mouth bass are also being caught by drifting between the piers and bouncing bottom.
Flashers and flies continue to be the best method in the deep water. 8 inch and 11 inch Pro and Hot Chip flashers (silver, silver/green, green/glow, white/glow with silver being the best) with Rapture last supper, green no-see-um and green dude flies produced very well on downriggers, side divers and 300 foot copper. The Silver Horde plugs (green black ladder back, green/silver and silver green and blue back) are also producing on 300 and 200 foot of copper and on the downriggers down 100 foot or more.
The lake had been very stable this last week with very little temperature change, however today we had to cut the charter to a half day because of rough water and wind from the north west. We will have to see what the water temperature does, since if the lake turns over the salmon will move in and begin the run. Check back and see what this next week brings.