Fishing Report

After hearing about some good catches of Brown Trout being caught yesterday south of Ludington we headed that way this morning on a 5 hour trip.  We set up on the south side of the Project in 12 feet of water (fow) and trolled south. We noticed right away the water was clear and had cooled down a couple degrees from yesterday. Not a good sign for catching Browns. We put out 3 flat lines  with Rapala’s & a 1 color core with a Super Slim on each side of the boat. We had high & low Slide Divers with Super Slims out too. We trolled close to a mile before we took our first Brown. It hit an F 11 Brown Trout Rapala. We didn’t hit another fish until just before the Bass Lake outlet. It was  Brown on a 1 color core with a Super Slim Carmel Icicle. There was another charter boat ahead of us and the only fish they had boated was a small King that they threw back.  Not knowing any better place to fish we made  circles around the outlet. That is where we took the rest of our fish. The King and a Lake Trout also took an F 11 Brown Trout on our far Birds. The Steelhead came on a 1 color with a Naughty Natalie Super Slim. Our last fish was the biggest Laker. It hit a F 11 Natural Perch Rapala. We also caught a small King which we threw back. We are hoping to get some stained water back in there after todays rain.

Fishing has been good the last three days in Ludington. On Thursday I fished in the afternoon with 2 friends.  Yesterday and today we had a charter with a fun couple from Ohio.We fished south of Ludington all three trips setting up south of the Project and trolling south to just past the Bass Lake outlet. We were running F11 & F13 Rapalas  on our clean bird rods and spoons on our 1 color cores and Slide Divers. Our best Rapala was an F11 Brown Trout. We caught several Browns and our biggest King yesterday on that bait. Today our first four bites were on Rapalas and later in the morning we took a King on an F11 Perch and another on a F11 Cold Steel. The rest of our catch came on spoons. We took a double, both nice Kings, off our Slide Divers. The low was set at 27 ft. with a regular DW Wrecking Ball and the other hit a Fuzzy Bear Yellowtail on a high slide Diver out 35 feet. Our best bait today was a Super Slim Magic Man on a 1 color core. It took 6 of our last 7 fish. Yesterday we had a Magnum Dreamweaver Frozen Veggie Take 2 Browns on a low Slide Diver out 23 feet. The majority of our trolling was done between 8 and 15 feet.