Fishing Report

We fished south today along with the majority of Ludington’s fleet. After two days of high winds we didn’t really know what to expect this morning but we were pleasantly surprised with all the action. We had all our rods set in the dark and just as it started breaking daylight an out down set at 65 ft. with a pair of Super Slim Super Breads went. It was a Coho that got off right at the back of the boat. We hit 4 more fish before we boated our first one. It was bite after bite, miss after miss for the first 30 minutes or so. There are a lot of Coho in those waters and they were eating our lunch.  We finally started putting some fish in the boat. A high wire diver out 280 with a 10″ White Slick Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine Dreamweaver Meat Rig  took 3 Kings and we lost one on it. A low wire out 125 and then 160 with a 10″ Blue Bubble Slick Spin Doctor/Ice Cold Big Water Meat Rig went twice and a low wire out 200 with a 10″ White Crush Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine DW Meat Rig took a big Laker. Our chute rigger with an 8″ White Crush Spin Doctor/Liquid Sunshine Action Fly went 5 times. The Super Breads went twice and our other out down set at 50 ft. went several times with a regular size Blue Skinny Jeans on he bottom and a Super Slim Blue Skinny Jeans free sliding above it. A # 3 pink plug went twice on a 200 copper and a Captain’s Choice Cut Plug Pinkie on a 225 copper took a big King. We had 8″ White Crush Spin Doctors/Liquid Sunshine Action Flies on both our 300 coppers and they each took fish. We missed a good fish on a 350 copper with a 10″ Green Sparkler Spin Doctor/UV On Ice Big Water Rig when we were pulling lines. We use Dreamweaver Premium Strips in all our meat rigs and Morgan’s Tackle Copper on all our copper rods and Morgan’s wire on all our wire rods.

We fished south today setting up in 110 feet of water. First fish came on a 200 copper with a Natural Glow Captains Choice Cut Plug. It was a good size King. That 200 went one more time but we missed that one. A pair of regular size DW Blue Skinny Jeans on an out down set at 50 feet went twice. Our best rod was a high wire diver out 300 with a 10″ White Slick Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine Dreamweaver Meat Rig. An 8″ White Crush Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly stacked with a mag Fuzzy Bear Modified Blue Dolphin 110 down on an out down went twice. One hit the flasher/fly and the other the spoon. Our biggest King came on a 300 copper with an 8″ White Crush Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly. We took a King on a mag glow spoon on a 350 copper and another King on our Trout rig. an 8″ Chrome Spin Doctor/Blue Chrome WhirlyGig with glow wings.  The top picture was from yesterdays charter. I attended a funeral out of town and Capt. Russ Soper  and 1st mate Corey did a fine job putting our charter on the fish. We use Dreamweaver Premium Strips in all our meat rigs and Morgan’s Tackle copper on all our copper rods and Morgan’s wire on all our wire rods.