Michigan Oct. 14 weekly: Stony Point perch and river salmon

Lake Erie perch are improving straight out from Stony Point in about 23 feet, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources said in its Oct. 14 weekly fishing report. Anglers there are using perch rigs with minnows. Walleye are still scarce. Lower and eastern Saginaw Bay is very slow for both perch and walleye.

On Lake Michigan, Grand Haven is producing good numbers of immature Chinook and steelhead in 80 to 130 feet, with the better action in the top 50 feet on green and orange spoons. St. Joseph perch remain worthwhile around 60 feet, and salmon are only fair in 80 to 100 feet. In the rivers, salmon have reached the Berrien Springs Dam on the St. Joseph. Chinook are near the 9th Street Dam on the Thunder Bay River, with a few steelhead mixed in. A few coho are coming off the Oscoda pier on spoons, and a few Atlantic salmon are in the Au Sable. Newaygo County still has salmon from Croton Dam down to Muskegon Lake. The Martiny Chain is giving up limits of large bluegill.

Upper Peninsula reports are mostly coho. Munising has coho and some splake. After rain, Marquette saw a surge of coho moving upstream, with brown trout the steadier fish in the Chocolay and Carp rivers. Manistique Chinook are near the end of the run. Keweenaw Bay fishing is mainly coho and splake.

This is a The Gillnet news desk summary, not a reprint.

Source: Michigan DNR — Weekly Fishing Report, Oct. 14, 2026.