Fishing Report

Fishing has improved at Ludington the last couple days. The water is still colder than it usually is this time of year. We have been fishing north starting the morning in 90 t0 130 feet of water (fow) and after the morning bite moving out to 140 to 220 fow. For us it’s been a plug bite early and then mainly Spin Doctors and meat rigs. Our best plug has been a Natural Glow Captain’s Choice Cut Plug. We’ve been running plugs on our 3, 5, 7.5 color cores and all 3 riggers. Today our 2 out downs were set at 20 & 25 and the chute was down 40. The morning bite for us was much better today than yesterday. Our wire divers were good all morning. We had one low back 65 with a 10″Kevin’s Girlfriend Spin Doctor/Green Mile Big Water Meat Rig and on the same side we also had it on a high wire out 100. They both took fish but the low was better than the high. The other high wire diver was a 10′ Chrome Killer Spin Doctor/Green Gasoline Dreamweaver Meat Rig out 110. It got bit several times. We switched our 7.5 & 10 color cores over to meat rigs, pulled our 3 color cores and put out 200 & 250 coppers. The 7.5 cores didn’t go but both 10’s went. One had a 10’Green Sparkle Spin Doctor/Green UV Big Water Meat Rig  and the other was a 8″ Kevin’s Girlfriend Spin Doctor/Green Mile Big Water Rig. We had 10″ Kevin’s Girlfriend/Green Miles on our 200 & 250 coppers. They both took fish. We use Dreamweaver Premium Strips in all our meat rigs.

Tough couple of days fishing up north. Yesterday we set up north of the stick in 80 feet of water (fow). The water was a couple degrees colder on the surface, but it was 40 degrees down 20 feet. We took our only fish on a 10″ Chrome Killer Spin Doctor/Green Gasoline Dreamweaver Meat Rig out 100 on a high wire diver. We had one more bite when we trolled out deep but it didn’t hook up. We talked to a couple of friends that hit some fish in front of the harbor so we picked up and ran in to try it there. No bites for us. Some nice Kings are being caught there and in PM Lake. It is mostly an early bite. Today we went back up north and set up in 90 fow. We took 1 fish on a 5 color core with a glow spoon. We trolled down north of the point with no more bites so we trolled out to deeper water. We hit fish between 230 & 350 fow. Two of our Kings came on a low wire diver out 80 on a 10″ Kevin’s Girlfriend Spin Doctor/Green Mile Big Water Meat Rig. A regular size DW UV Leopard Frog spoon stacked above a 8″ Yellow Sparkle Spin Doctor/UV On Ice Big Water Rig down 46 on an out down took a good size Laker. Our only copper bite came on a 250 with a 10″ Green Sparkle Spin Doctor/Green Gasoline Dreamweaver Meat Rig. We use Dreamweaver Premium Strips in all our meat rigs.