7-31-13 Fishing Report

Fished a double yesterday. We fished southwest of Ludington both trips. We started out in 120 feet of water (fow) and headed out on a 240 troll. We hit  4 mature Kings at first light and then just picked the rest of the morning. We fished out to the 37’s then turned back in and trolled in to the 35’s. We spent most of our morning  fishing between those numbers and had a good catch. Not hearing of anything better we headed back out to the same area for our afternoon trip. The action had definitely slowed. We didn’t have a bite for the first 2 hours of the trip. We finally got some action out in the 39’s and boated 3 fish. We went back to basically the same area this morning but started out deeper, 150 feet and trolled southwest.  We hit a few fish at first light on 10″ Spin Doctors and Big Water Meat Rigs. Our best was a 10″ Margarita Spin Doctor/Green UV Big Water Meat Rig with Erie Dearie Meat on a high wire diver out 120 ft. Our out downs were set at 50 and 40 feet with a pair of glow spoons on one and a pair of regular size Dreamweaver Beefeaters on the other. They both took several fish. Another hot rod was a 200 copper with a Super Slim Riverside spoon. We trolled all the way out to 430 fow and had action all the way. We have doubles the next 2 days so I probably won’t have another report up until Saturday.