George Freeman

Fishing was slower out deep for us today. We set up in 220 feet of water a little south of Ludington. It was 46 degrees 60 down on our Fish Hawk probe. We were all set up before our 1st bite. We took a 3 year old King on a 200 copper with an 8 ” White Crush Slick Spin Doctor/Liquid Sunshine Action Fly. We took another King on it a little later in the morning. We took a big King on a low wire diver out 85 with an 8″ Kevin’s Girlfriend Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly. We had a pair of Super Slim Super Breads 55 down on an out down that took a Coho & a Laker. We missed a fish on a low wire out 90 with a 10″ White Slick Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine Dreamweaver Meat Rig. We took our other mature King on a 300 copper with a 10″ Black Slick Spin Doctor/Clear UV Dreamweaver Meat Rig. A Steelhead hit a Super Slim Get’er Done on a 175 copper. We trolled south most of the morning between 220 and 350 feet of water. We use Dreamweaver Premium Strips in all our meat rigs and Morgan’s Tackle copper on all our copper rods.

We fished a little south of Ludington setting up in 200 feet of water. There was a lot of boat traffic today. The temp at 60 ft. on our Fish Hawk was 46 degrees. We had all our rods set when a 3 year old King hit a 200 copper with an 8″ White Slick Spin Doctor/Liquid Sunshine Action Fly. We just got it in the boat when a Steelhead hit a Dreamweaver Green Skinny Jeans set at 65 on an out  down. A low wire out 90 with a 10″ White Slick Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine Dreamweaver Meat Rig went but we missed it. The 200 copper with the 8″White Slick/Liquid Sunshine took another Steelhead. We lost a King on a 225 copper with a blue glow spoon . Then our action slowed.  We went a while before we hit a triple. One on a Purple Ham Yeck spoon 65 down on an out down, another on a 200 copper with the 8″ White Slick/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly and the third hit an 8″ Yellow Bikini Bottom Spin Doctor/Liquid Sunshine Action Fly. We got all three. After another lull a high wire diver out 185 took our biggest fish of the day. 25.14 lbs, with an 8″ White Slick Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly. We missed a fish and took a Steelhead on a pair of Super Slim Super Bread spoons 55 down on an out down. We missed another fish on the 250 copper with the 8″ Yellow Bikini Bottom Spin Doctor/Liquid Sunshine Action Fly pictured above. That rig has went at least twice on our last two trips. We use Dreamweaver Premium Strips in all our meat rigs and Morgan’s Tackle copper on all our copper rods.