Lake Michigan Salmon Fishing report 6/7/2006 at Manistee

June 7, 2008 Fishing has improved with the south wind, but the big fish have not arrived yet. Our best baits were Stinger's Killer Blue and a ProKing green/white with some silver prism tape added to the back of the lure. Almost all the fish came on the riggers 99-110 feet over 150 -250 fow. There were no hits on the dipsy's, shallow downriggers. We had multiple rips on the lead core, but we only managed to hook up on one steelhead. The Killer Blue accounted for all the fish, and it didn't seem to matter whether we fished a magnum or regular size lure.

Lake Michigan Salmon fishing report manistee 6/1/2008

Lynn, Matt, Ray and I put the charter boat in the water today and set out for a morning of fishing. We marked thousands of fish, but only 3 strikes all morning. I heard a couple guys did better a little north of the harbor, using a nbk blue, and also a blue bubble on a slider off the main line that was down 150 feet. That makes the slider run about 75 feet. They took all kings using that setup. We took a couple fish using lead core, only the full core hit though using mixed a vegetable lure. Great day, but the north wind made for some slow fishing. I talked with Scott who was fishing in the ludington tournament, and they took a few, running deep 130 feet down, but they were also having trouble getting strikes. I checked the weather and 5 out of the next 7 days we will have a south wind. That will be great for fishing. Expect to see some good reports coming real soon.