Good Salmon Fishing Returns to Saugatuck

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July 16, 2006

If you check last weeks amended report, you will see that things changed from Sunday to Monday and it continued through out the week. We caught between 12 and 24 fish each day during the week and when we caught 12 we probably had 40 hits. The fish are in the same 90 to 120 foot of water with 105 foot being the most productive. Most of the fish are Chinook salmon (10 to 19 pounds) with some Coho salmon and steelhead and an occasional lake trout thrown in. A couple of the days, the size of the fish resembled catches in August and September instead of July. I think we are going to see some very large salmon showing up when the run starts in late August.

Pro Chip and Hot Chip flasher ( green/glow and silver green) with pickled sunshine Gflies are by far the best lure selection (We where running them on the downriggers, low dipsy and on occasion on the copper line). Downriggers at 80 to 50 foot and the dipsy divers (wire) at 100 foot on the low divers and 175 foot on the high divers produced consistently. Copper wire (200 foot, and 300 foot) with the Natural Born Killer, Bat Man and the Raider Fruit Salad and Green Dolphin Spook and the Yeck Frog produced very well day after day. We also found that the Legendary Products Purple Passion and their Smart Fish flashers with flies started to produce fish pulled on the copper wire.

Fishing can not get much better than it is right now. If we can keep the bait ( and the bait is abundant right now), we should continue to see some very good and very large fish. Check back and keep track of the fishing in Saugatuck through out the year. You can also feel free to contact me at any time by email at: [email protected] or call toll free at 888-253-8372.