We set up in 100 feet of water south of Ludington this morning. The down temp showed 40 degrees down 50 feet on my Fish Hawk. We set our lines and started trolling west. We hit our first fish on a 200 copper with a mag Fuzzy Bear Orange Slice. It was a small King. Our chute rigger down 75 with an 11″ White Slick Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly stacked with a mag Fuzzy Bear UV Blue Skinny Jeans was next. We fought the fish for a long time. We thought it was foul hooked, but it turned out to a 26 lb. male King that took the stack. We had our out downs set at 70 & 55. We took a fish on the one set at 70 but didn’t take a fish on the starboard out down all morning. We swapped out the baits and moved it to different depths but couldn’t get it to go. We had an 8″ White Slick Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly out 160 on a high #4 Deeper Diver and a 10″ White Slick Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine Dreamweaver Meat Rig 85 out on a low #5 Deeper Diver on our port side. The high didn’t go until later in the morning when we dropped it back to 190 feet. It went once with a big fish that got away. The low diver turned out to be our best rod. It went four times. We took 2 Kings and a Steelhead on it. One fish escaped. No bites today on our starboard divers. We moved our mag Fuzzy Orange Slice to a 250 copper and it went once there. We dropped our chute rigger down 10 feet and took 2 fish on the Paddle. We started the morning out with a # 3 Glow Black Ladder-Back plug on a 7.5 color core but it didn’t go. Our 300 was our best copper it had a standard soda spoon on it. We had good action all morning boating some nice Kings and Steelhead. The weather was perfect, and fishing was good. We use Dreamweaver premium Strips in all our meat rigs and Morgan’s Tackle copper and wire.
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