George Freeman

After a couple weather days it was good to get back out on the water. We went deep setting up in 200 feet of water a little south of Ludington. Our Fish Hawk probe at 60 ft. showed 46 degrees. We had steady action all morning. First it was our wire diver & riggers then later in the morning it was mostly coppers. A pair of regular Dreamweaver Green Skinny Jeans down 65 on an out down went 4 or 5 times. A regular DW Blue Hulk stacked 10 ft. above a mag Blue Hulk took 3 fish. Our 10″ White Slick and White Crush Spin Doctors with Dreamweaver Pickled Sunshine Meat Rigs on our wire divers took most of our big fish including our biggest Lake Trout and biggest Steelhead.  Our highs were out 160 & 185 and lows 90 & 100.   We took 2 Steelhead on a Yeck Wart Frog on a 175 copper. A 10″ White Slick Green Hollo Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine Dreamweaver Meat Rig on a 300 copper went twice. We worked southwest from our starting point getting as deep as 430 ft. We finished in 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 and out deep. We didn’t want to fight the boats up north and we heard good reports from some friends that fished out there last evening. We set up in 220 feet of water. It was 45 degrees down 60 ft. on our Fish Hawk. Took our first fish, a Steelhead, on a 250 copper with a blue glow spoon. Shortly after we landed it we hit a triple. One on an out down set at 50 ft. with a pair of Dreamweaver Green Skinny Jeans, another on a 200 copper with a 10″ Green Scale White Crush Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine Dreamweaver Meat Rig and the last on a 300 copper with a 10″ UV Green Jeans Spin Doctor/Green Mile Big Water Meat Rig. We boated all three. Our best troll was into the waves that were building all morning. We lost several fish on our coppers because the waves were causing the boards to dive and it made it hard to keep tension on the fish. Our hottest rig was an 8″ Yellow Bikini Bottom Spin Doctor/Liquid Sunshine Action Fly on a 250 copper. It went 3 times with big fish and we didn’t get any of them. Our biggest King came on an 8″ White Slick Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly out 180 on a high wire diver. We were lucky to have an experienced crew with us. Today made it 20 years they have been fishing with us. We use Dreamweaver Premium Strips in all our meat rigs and Morgan’s copper on all our copper rods.