Scott, I heard you guys are tearing 'em up up there. A friend of mine went out of Sturgeon Bay on his private boat last night and fished miles off the Bank and still caught 12!

It's been some of the best salmon fishing in years down here this week, many 20- to 30-fish charter limits and fast. I hope guys don't expect that every time because no way can it last. Hopefully though the 10- to 20-fish catches will continue with regularity in between the smokin' hot times.

As you know, the fish are very deep and awesome battlers. They appear to me to be in better shape than they've been in a half-decade or longer. We had 17 in short trips on my 18-footer in recent days, including a solo limit of 16- to 19-pounders yesterday. Everything but the kitchen sink has been working, though most charters are going all fly since the salmon came on strong. We did take a big king and a bow on a mag spoon this morning run up high in the cool water.

The Sturgeon Bay weeds are bad though ... anyone fishing between SB and Algoma should be on the lookout whenever there's a NW, N or NE wind or current. We had to shut the boat down when we hit a massive patch today.

Best of luck up there.

Kevin