George Freeman

After the big north blow we weren’t really sure where to start this morning. We figured the water had cooled enough for Lake Trout to come  back into where we had been fishing for them in May. We set up south of the Project in approximately 50 feet of water . We hit 3 fish pretty quick and lost a couple more. We thought it was going to easy loading up on the Lakers. We thought wrong. After the initial flurry it was slow going. We trolled south to about the Pentwater pierheads and turned back north. We took our biggest Trout late in the trip on a high wire diver on the bottom with an 8″  Chrome Crush UV Spin Doctor with Yellow Dots and a Mountain Dew Yellow Dot Whirly Gig. We took 2 Trout on an out down bouncing bottom with an 8″ Chrome Spin Doctor Green Glow Whirly Gig. The rest of our fish came on our wire diver fished on or near the bottom with 8″ Chrome Spin Doctors and Whirly Gigs. We had out 3, 5, 7.5 & 10 colors cores hoping for a King or two but we didn’t get any takers.

We fished north of Ludington today setting up in 110 feet of water (fow) . There weren’t many marks on our screen but we only had a few rods set when the first King of the morning took an 11″ White Crush Paddle/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly 85 down on the chute rigger. We just landed that fish when another King hit a low wire diver out 85 with a 10″ Blue Bubble Spin Doctor/Ice Cold Big Water Meat Rig. That set up went twice for us and was our only meat bite. They wanted spoons today. Both our 10 color cores went twice. We had a Yeck Wart Frog on one and UV Two Face Super Slim on the other. We caught a small throw back King on a 5 color with a Yeck Fire Ball and a keeper King on a 7.5 color core with a Yeck Jered. We lost a good one on a 175 copper with a Mag Dreamweaver Magic Man landed one on our 200 copper with a Mag DW UV Mixed Veggie. Our 250 copper with a glow spoon took four Kings. Most of our action came on the boards but we took two Kings on a Yeck Glow M &M down 65 on an out down and a good size Trout on an 8″ Chrome Spin Doctor/Mountain Dew Yellow Dot Whirly Gig 135 down on the chute rigger. We lost a big King on that set up too. We had steady action all morning and took most of our fish north of the Point.