Salmon Stage Off Shore in Saugatuck

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Aug. 27, 2006

This week was identical to last week with fish being taken in 60 to 110 foot of water. Most of the catch consisted of Chinook salmon and lake trout with an occasional steelhead and Coho.

Flashers and flies and flies and flashers produced most of the fish. We ran Pro Chip and Hot Chip flashers (green/silver, green/glow, and all silver) and Smart Fish flashers (mountain dew, white blue bubble, and chrome blue bubble) with Rapture Trolling flies (sour apple, hypnotist, green bubble, oceana and blue bubble). These combination produced 90 % of the catch on wire divers and downriggers as well as occasionally behind copper wire. We pulled 200 foot and 300 foot of copper with a variety of magnum lures (make and color changed from day to day), however crippled alewife, bat man and glow wonder bread produced well.