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Hey everyone. Heading to west side of state this weekend. Haven't fished Lake Michigan all year. Boat is not big (17 ft). Looking for some info/suggestions on which port to fish out of. Staying in Grand Rapids. We will have a kid with us so I'm looking for something easy (near shore, not long run) where we can get into some fish. Whether those fish be lakers, steelhead or salmon not all that important. Just some good action!

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I would recommend port Sheldon. It's a small port, and is located on pigeon lake which is quite a small lake so it takes only about five minutes to get out onto the big lake. It is located in between holland and grand haven. The thing is however in the morning you must travel slow no wake on your way out to Lake Michigan. Hope this helps! Fishing has been pretty good lately!

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Winds have been good lately my advice would be run flies and meat rigs on your high lines and dipsys and blue spoons fairly shallow on your riggers fish in about 130-150 FOW

Thanks. Is that a place you can drop down and catch lakers if it's slow on salmon?

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We did. We set lines around 7 a.m. And pulled at 9:30 because the kids were tired from driving in from Chicago with their uncle and it was a bit choppy. Anyway, we got skunked, but had fun. We started in 90 fow and fished out to 135 and back. Wind dir made it hard to do north and south in a little boat. We are going to give it a better effort tomorrow. Sounded like most struggled today.

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Might want to check NOAA today Steve. The forecast for Ludington is high winds and storms coming in tonight and Tuesday, ending Wed. and Thurs. looking good again 1' or less.

Thanks Rascal, but we are back on east side of state now. Maybe in a week or two I can get back over to the west side.

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