Fishing Report

We fished straight out and a little north of Ludington today setting up in 110 feet of water (fow). We hit fish right away. Both our high wire divers with 8″ Chrome Spin Doctors went as soon as they touched bottom. One had a Chrome Blue Spin-N-Glow and the other a Chrome Blue Glow Winged WhirlyGig. We landed both Trout. When we were resetting them the starboard high diver got tangled in the port low diver. Then the port high wire got tangled with both of them. The current is real strong and all the boats I talked with today had to deal with tangled lines. We had a 8″ Chrome Spin Doctor/Green Glow UV Winged WhirlyGig ,pictured below, on an out down and a low wire diver. We took several fish on that combo. We caught a good size Coho on a high wire out 500 ft. in 120 fow on an 8″ Chrome Spin Doctor/Blue Chrome Spin-N-Glo. No spoon bites today. We took a Laker on a White Crush  Big Foot Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly 95 down on the chute rigger. Every fish other than that one came on 8″ Chrome Spin Doctors trailed by WhirlyGigs or Spin-N-Glos.

Tough fishing today. We set up straight out and a little north of Ludington harbor today in 120 feet of water. We put our Fish Hawk probe down to the bottom for a temp check and found 57 degree water. Last time we fished there it was 48 degrees 120 ft. down. The current coming from the north was very strong and heavy fog set in. Not the best of conditions. Our first fish came on a low wire diver out 250 with an 8″ Chrome Spin Doctor/Chrome Blue WhirlyGig. That was our best set up today. A 10″ Chrome Spin Doctor, pictured below, with the same WhirlyGig on our other low wire went twice. We tried a northeast troll for a while but with the strong north current it was had to keep our lines from tangling. At one point we had fish on both our out downs and they both got tangled with the chute rigger. What a mess. We got one trout and lost the other one right behind the back of the boat. We took a Coho on a 250 copper with a Super Slim Super Bread spoon. That spoon has been good for at least one fish per trip lately. We got as deep as 220 feet and as shallow as 105 feet. Most of our action came between 120 and 150 feet of water. We had 15 bites and landed 8 fish.