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Little Bay de Noc: Anglers targeting yellow perch reported good fishing while using perch rigs baited with worms and minnows on light-action rods. Walleye anglers reported slow-to-fair fishing, with most targeting the bottom of drop-offs. Anglers trolling typically ran crawler harnesses behind bottom bouncers or inline weights. Anglers casting reported using snap-style jigs or jigs paired with soft plastics. Coho salmon fishing was slow over the past week.
Munising: Weather conditions limited fishing activity over the past week, but boat anglers who made it out caught a few coho salmon and splake while trolling in the bay and around Grand Island. Boat anglers targeting lake trout found success at Big Reef and around Grand Island. Anglers fishing the mouth of the Anna River caught a few splake. Spawn and casting spinners were the most productive baits.
Ontonagon River: Angling effort on the river was good over the past week. Walleye were caught in fair numbers by anglers jigging. Trolling was much less effective, with fishing in the morning hours yielding the best success.
Ontonagon/Silver City/Union Bay: Ontonagon saw fair amounts of angling effort over the past week. Effort from the Silver City and Union Bay access sites remained much lower than from Ontonagon. Angler reports included catches of lake trout in fair-to-low numbers. Anglers trolled across depths varying from 60 to 150 feet to find fish.
Black River Harbor: Angling effort remained low from the harbor over the past week. Anglers caught lake trout in low-to-fair numbers while trolling in depths of 60 to 160 feet. Shore anglers fishing within the harbor boundaries reported catches of smallmouth bass and white suckers in low numbers.
St. Ignace: Early salmon began to show, with low numbers moving into the Carp River and a handful staging at Nunns Creek. Anglers targeting their first fall-run salmon of the season cast spoons and drifted spawn.
Grand Marais: Weather conditions limited fishing activity. When weather permitted, boat anglers reported doing well when targeting lake trout trolling and jigging at deeper depths.
Manistique: Anglers reported good Chinook salmon fishing from the “green can” buoy located south of Manistique to Fairport. Anglers had good success trolling in water depths of 100 to 150 feet of water. Magnum-sized spoons were productive. Anglers who fished near the mouth of the Manistique River reported slow fishing, as did pier anglers.
Marquette: Most anglers continued to troll north of White Rocks out toward Granite Island and the Clay Banks in 80 to 160 feet of water targeting lake trout. Anglers reported catching fish throughout the water column with no clear pattern. A few anglers reported catching salmon and brown trout near Little Presque Isle and the Clay Banks area around Granite Island and the Little Garlic River in 60 to 100 feet of water. Few anglers headed out to the Sand River or Shot Point, with lower numbers of lake trout reported. Coho salmon were caught in 60 feet of water between the Lower Harbor Lighthouse and the Chocolay River, with lines set 25 to 30 feet down.
Keweenaw Bay/Huron Bay: Anglers reported catching lake trout, along with a few coho salmon, splake, and Chinook salmon, while trolling spoons and flasher-fly rigs over the past week. Anglers jigging for lake trout reported a fair bite, finding success on both natural and artificial presentations. Fish were caught in 100 to 140 feet of water.
Lake Independence, Big Bay: Fishing activity remained slow with most anglers targeting Walleye and Yellow Perch. Anglers did best jigging in 10 to 15 feet of water using natural bait.
Traverse Bay/Portage Entry: Anglers reported fair-to-good fishing for lake trout while trolling spoons and flasher-fly rigs near the bottom in 90 to 120 feet of water and around structure. Coho salmon, steelhead, and a few brown trout were also caught in low numbers while trolling. Anglers jigging for lake trout reported a fair bite when using natural and artificial baits, with most fish caught between 100 and 140 feet of water and some caught in depths near 200 feet.
-- By the Michigan Department of Natural Resources