Fishing Report

We fished up north the last two days setting up on the bank in 110 feet of water (fow). The early bite has been ok, but not great. It was better today than yesterday for us. There is still some cold water hanging around the point. We’ve been setting up on the warm side of the break. Our most consistent rig has been 8 & 10 ” Kevin’s Girlfriend Spin Doctors/Froggie Big Water Tackle Meat Rigs. We’ve been running them on high & low wires and on at least two of our coppers , usually a 200 & 300. We had a 8″ Chrome Killer/Green Moo Dreamweaver Meat Rig go twice today on a 10 color core. We put a 10″ Chrome Killer/Leprechaun Big Water Rig out 180 on a high wire later in the day and a nice Laker hit it but it got off at the back of the boat. Not a lot of rigger action. A 10″ Glow Blade Spin Doctor/Green Mirage Strong Fly on our chute rigger has taken at least one nice King both days. Today we had it set at 80 feet. Our biggest fish of the day (18 lbs.) was the last one we caught. It was near the end of our trip and first mate Austin put out a 8″ Red Mamba Spin Doctor/Car Crash Dreamweaver Meat Rig on a 300 copper. It wasn’t out all that long when the big king hit it. He peeled out a lot of line and got tangled in two other lines but we got him. Most of our fish were taken between 110 & 160 fow. We were using Dreamweaver Premium Strips in all our meat rigs.

We fished the last 2 days north of Ludington. After the hard north blow we weren’t real sure what we find for water temp. Monday we found 54 degree surface temp in 350 feet of water (fow) north of the Point. We set up there and hit a couple fish, but the fishing was better inside between 180 and 120 fow. Today we set up in 100 fow by the Bath House. We didn’t hit anything so we put it on a 340 troll. We hit our first fish 50 down on an out down on a pair of glow spoons in 120 fow. It came up into our low wire diver and got off. We hit a big King on one of our high wire divers out 160 on a 10″ Black Slick Spin Doctor/Blue Fairways Strong Fly. That combo ended up taking 2 Kings. Our low wire divers were out 80 & 90 feet. We had a 10″ Glow Blade Slick Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly on one and a 10″ Show Time Spin Doctor/Blue Moo Big Water Meat Rig on the other. They each took a King. A 5 color core with a #3 pink plug went twice early. We kept trolling out and hit fish between  140 to 200 fow.  We saw boats hitting fish inside us too. We had a 10″ Green Sparkle Spin Doctor/Green Gasoline Dreamweaver Meat Rig on our chute down 80 that went twice. The last couple days our hot rigs have been 8 & 10 inch Green Sparkle and Yellow Sparkle Spin Doctors with Dreamweaver Green Gasoline  and Big Water UV On Ice meat rigs. We’ve been running them on 7.5 & 10 color cores and 200, 250 & 300 coppers and using Dreamweaver Premium Strips in all of them. We took most of our fish between the 03’s and the 05’s. The water is changing up there rapidly, so it’s anybody’s guess what it will be like tomorrow.