Good Salmon Fishing in Saugatuck

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May 29, 2006

The fishing remains very good in our area. Some of the boats fished in 80 to 100 foot of water and took some very nice kings this past week. However the best fishing was in 160 to 200 foot with limit catches of salmon and an occasional lake trout and steelhead. Most of the salmon weighed about 8 to 10 pounds, however I did see a Chinook that pushed 20 pounds.

The most productive method was lead core (7 color, 10 color) and copper wire (100 yds) fished with Raider, Legendary Products and Stingray lures. Orange crush, Michael Jackson, Purple Alewife and Wonder Bread produced very well. Our best lures remain the Raider, Stinger and the new Legendary Products lures. The darker colors with purple and/or blue on them or some glow in the dark tape, seemed to work the best. The dipsy divers with the larger stingray or magnum Raider lures worked well, however the color changed from day to day. On the downriggers, the only consistent lure was the Natural Born Killer fished at 70 foot. Again this week, Pro Chip and Hot Chip flashers and Gflies (Green glow with green seaweed flies or mirage flies) produced fish on some of the boats (downriggers an wire dipsy divers). It seems that fish that hit the flashers and flies tended to be larger in size than those that hit on the lures.

Check back and keep track of the fishing in Saugatuck through out the year.

CoHooker Charter Fishing Service will try to post a report every Monday or Tuesday.