On the Elk River, the occasional steelhead and lake trout were starting to show up. The river collects salmon and steelhead from both Lake Huron and Lake Michigan and the fish start showing up in the river as early as mid-July with action picking up steadily with a peak happening somewhere around Labor Day. These active fighters leap, make blazing fast runs, and will strike savagely even in cool springtime waters putting smiles on anglers' faces with every bite. in the Little Manistee River, it was because the Chicago World's Fair had These fish Fishing tips and techniques for Salmon, trout, steelhead, coho, chinook, lake trout, brown trout, smallmouth bass, largemouth bass, perch and walleye, northern pike and other species that inhabit Lake Michigan are generic in nature and can be modified and applied to any location. decline and extinction caused the M.F.C. // -->