Fishing Report

Bites were hard to come by today. We fished the same area as yesterday. We started at 02:00 in 120 fow and trolled north. We had a good picture on our graph with several marks and some bait. We didn’t have all our rods set when a high wire diver out 180 went with a 10″ White Crush Spin Doctor/Moo Moo Big Water Meat Rig. Took a decent King on that setup. The low wire with a 10″ Black Spin Doctor/Froggie Big Water Rig went next but we didn’t get that fish. A 200 copper with an 8″ UV Lizard Spin Doctor/UV on Ice Big Water Meat Rig took a King and we missed  another King and a 10″ Atomic Killer Spin Doctor/Yellow Kermit Dreamweaver Meat Rig out 200 on a high wire.  So far so good, right? We turned in the o5’s and trolled back south in 120 to 130 fow. Then came a looong dry spell. After a while we took a Lake Trout on a 5 color core with a Dreamweaver SS Magic Man spoon. We turned out in the 02’s and took the King pictured below on a 400 copper with a 10″ Dark Green White Crush Spin Doctor/Green Mile Big Water Rig.  We missed another fish on a high wire and that was it. There are fish out there but they didn’t cooperate very well today.

We fished north of Ludington today setting up in 120 fow in the middle of the 01’s and started trolling north. The surface temp was 50 and our Fish Hawk probe was reading 41 degrees down 110 feet. We were marking some fish and bait.  First rod to go was an out down set at 65 ft. with a pair of glow spoons. Next we took our biggest fish of the day on a 200 copper with a Yeck Lighting spoon. When our high diver out 250 with a 10″ White Crush Spin Doctor/Yellow Kermit Dreamweaver Meat Rig took a nice King we out in 140 fow. The glow spoons down 65 fired again taking another King. We were still on our north troll working between 140 & 170 fow.  A 10″ Margareta Spin Doctor/Leprechaun Big Water Meat Rig took a King on a 300 copper. We turned when we hit the 05’s and trolled south working again between 140 & 170 fow. We hit a couple more fish, one on a pair of DW Beefeater spoons on an out down and one on a 450 copper with a 10″ White Crush Spin Doctor/Froggie Big Water Meat Rig, but we didn’t boat either one of those. Then we had a long dry spell. We worked out to 230 fow and in to 100 fow finally taking a King on the stack on our 65 down rigger. We ended up hitting 2 more fish , one on a low wire out 150 with a 10″ Atomic Killer Spin Doctor/Green UV Big Water Meat Rig which we landed, and we missed one on the Yeck Lighting on our 200 copper. With the exception of one fish on a stack  our spoon bites on our riggers were on mag size spoons.