Fishing Report

We fished north of Ludington today setting up in 110 feet of water (fow) just off the shelf in the middle of the 01’s. The west north west wind and a strong current made trolling north along the bank very difficult. We hit 3 fish on our first pass, all Kings, and boated all 3.  We turned off the bank in the 04’s and made an out troll. The west troll was much better than the north troll. We took it out to 350 fow and then came back east into 120 fow. The action was never hot, it was more like a slow pick. The Steelhead pictured below took a 10″ White Crush Spin Doctor/Froggie Big Water Meat Rig on a 350 copper. Our best rod was a 250 copper with a regular size Dreamweaver Super Bread spoon. It took 3 Kings. Two of our biggest fish came on a high wire diver out 220 with a 10″ Kevin’s Girlfriend Spin Doctor/Green Mile Big Water Meat Rig. A 10″Chrome NBK Mountain Dew Spin Doctor/Moo Moo Big Water Rig on a 350 copper took a nice King too. We had 3 rigger bites and no low wire diver bites.

We ran southwest of Ludington today and shut down when the surface temp started to drop. It was 57 degrees where we set up in the 39’s west. We hit a Steelhead right away on a 3 color core with a Super Slim Double orange Pearl spoon. The surface temp started to drop rapidly in the 40’s west. We were in the 52’s south. A Slide Diver out 90 with a 35 ft. lead took a King on a SS Super Bread spoon. We were going to turn when the temp was 43 degrees, but we started hitting fish in that colder water. Some of the boats fishing in the same general area were taking fish in the warmer water, 54 to 47, but our best action came in the colder, 41 to 43, degree water. We hit fish on 2, 3, 5, & 7.5 color cores. Our Slide Divers out 80 & 90 were good. We only had 1 rigger bite. A 13.5 lb. Steelhead took a mag size Hello Darlan Fuzzy Bear spoon stacked 12 ft. above a Tin Can Dodger 100 down on the chute rigger. It was 38 degrees down there. We didn’t run any meat today and had no bites on our low mono divers. Most of our bites were on Super Slim Spoons with the Double Orange Pearl and the Steelie Stomper being the best.  We worked between the 40’s to the 43’s west and the 53’s to 50’s south. We ended up with 3 Lakers, 4 Kings, and 4 Steelhead for a total of 11 fish. I took a group picture of our catch with my camera, but didn’t have the memory card in.