St. Ignace: Anglers on Lake Huron successfully caught lake trout using spoons and flashers on downriggers off the east side of Mackinac Island. At the Carp and Pine rivers, walleye fishing pressure continued to decline, with most anglers targeting them primarily catching undersized fish. Walleye anglers employed various techniques, including floating leeches, casting small spinner baits, jigging soft plastics, and trolling nightcrawler harnesses.

Ontonagon River: Fishing efforts on the river have been low over the past week. Angler reports show that walleye were being caught in low numbers. Anglers had luck finding fish when jigging and trolling.

Ontonagon/Silver City/Union Bay: Ontonagon saw a fair amounts of angling efforts. Efforts were lower from Union Bay and Silver City. Recent reported catches consisted of lake trout in low numbers. Anglers found success when trolling across a variety of water depths.

Black River Harbor: Angling efforts from the harbor were low over the past week. Fishing conditions were described by anglers as tough and very slow. Recent catches consisted of lake trout in low numbers. Anglers reported having to troll across a variety of water depths to find fish.

Little Bay de Noc: Anglers reported slow fishing for walleye. Some caught fish south of Gladstone Beach, as well as at black bottom during low light hours of the day. Other walleye anglers fished deep water in the outer portion of the bay. Yellow perch anglers reported fair fishing but limited success at the bottom of drop-offs using minnows and worms.

Big Bay de Noc: Smallmouth bass anglers reported good fishing with lots of fish being caught on night crawlers. Other anglers used soft plastics that resemble baitfish or gobies.

Fairport: Salmon fishing was good; anglers reported catching limits or at least multiple catches per person. Anglers were trolling with dipsy divers, down riggers, and rods on planer boards. Spoons and flasher-fly combos were common presentations.

Keweenaw Bay/ Huron Bay: Anglers reported that lake trout fishing was fair to poor. They saw limited success while trolling and jigging with both natural and artificial presentations in 100 to 200 feet of water. Salmon fishing was reported as slow, with an occasional splake being caught.

Marquette: Anglers started to see bait balls on their graphs, and the number of lake trout being caught was consistent. Anglers trolling from northwest of the white rocks out toward north of Granite Island reported good success, but it seemed they were moving into deeper water before they started catching fish. The clay banks fishing was very slow. Only lake trout were caught last week in Marquette at depths ranging from 140 to 180 feet of water.

Au Train: Warm, windy weather pushed lake trout fishing out deeper this past week, but anglers still picked up a few both trolling and jigging. They trolled for lake trout in around 150 to 180 feet of water northwest of Au Train Island, out in the flats toward the clay banks, or near Wood Island in about 200 feet of water. Anglers were warned to watch out for the many tribal fishing nets around Au Train Bay, as several anglers got caught up in the nets this week.

Traverse Bay/Portage Entry: Anglers reported catching fair to good numbers of lake trout when trolling spoons and flasher/fly combinations around structure. Very few coho salmon and Chinook salmon were caught, and those were taken on spoons fished 30 to 50 feet down.

Munising: Boat anglers reported doing well when targeting lake trout trolling out at Big Reef and near Grand Island at deeper depths. Boat anglers also caught some splake trolling in Munising Bay.

Grand Marais: The lake trout bite was consistent for boat anglers trolling and jigging out at deeper depths. Boat anglers reported picking up a few coho salmon trolling east of the break wall.

– Michigan Department of Natural Resources