9-16-11 Fishing Report

We were planning on fishing up north today but the Coastwatch image showed cold water at the Point. We ended up running southwest of Ludington watching the surface temp. We found 55 degree water in the 54’s and 33’s so we set-up there. We trolled sw and as we got into the 53’s and out to the 35’s the temp dropped to 53 degrees. We worked the top 60 feet between the 55 degree & 53 degree water.  A 5 color core with a glow Bloody Nose was our hot rod. We hit fish on 3 & 7 color cores too. A Pearl Yeck Spoon with ear rings out 80 on a Slide Diver went 3 times. We only had 1 low wire bite on a Spin Doctor/Big Water Meat Rig and we didn’t get the fish.  A regular size Pearl Glow Dreamweaver Spoon with a Red Ladder Back was good out 70 on a low wire. Our best rigger bait was a set of regular size Dreamweaver Pearl Necklace Spoons down 50 on an out down. We kept some small Coho that were bleeding from the gills, better for our crew to eat them than the seagulls.