Where are our salmon?

[westrate]

This past week started out just as the preceding week ended, with good catches in 80 to 100 foot of water. Then we had the blow out of the north on Wed. which turned the lake over moving cold water in front the piers on Thursday. Everyone felt that our salmon will be in-front the piers on Thursday or at least by Friday. That, however, did not happen. Instead we lost the fish we had been catching in the 80 to 100 foot range and the fish were scattered out from 140 foot of water out to 240 foot of water. Our best fishing during the weekend was in 180 to 220 foot of water with decent catches of 2 and 3 year old salmon and a few 4 year old chinook, steelhead and lake trout mixed in.

The best lures for us were Stingray and Nitro lures and glow Ace Hi plugs on 300 and 400 foot of copper. On the dipsy divers pro troll flashers (silver green, silver mountain dew and white glow) with rapture no see um flies (green beads and red beads) produced the best. On the downriggers we ran metal dodgers and green rapture flies.

Early in the week there were some perch caught in 15 foot of water south of the Saugatuck piers and between the State Park and Castle Park. The perch ran small, however you could catch enough that it produced a nice catch of "keepers".

Our salmon should show up at any time so check back or email me for information at [email protected].

[Boltman]

Thanks for the report, I'm getting a lil frustrated here with these fishes...... In ludington they are as scattered as ever.

[NO MO BEGGEN]

the last couple of times ive been out and did catch fish the stomachs of the fish have either been empty or had a few small perch minnows in them. what happened to the alwives next trip out im useing smaller baits the perch minnows have only been about 2 inches long