Ludington Area Fishing Reports

The forecast called for 1-to-3-foot waves out of the north. They were wrong. They were all of 4-to-6-foot waves when we set up in the 59’s in 240 feet of water. The temp reading on our Fish Hawk was 62 degrees down 110 feet. We hit 2 fish right away. The first was on a pair of Super Slim Green Hulks down 135 on our port out down. The second was on a pair of Soda spoons down 120 on our other out down. Both riggers went several times, but the out down with the Super Slim Green Hulks was our best rod. We had 3 bites on the chute rigger down 140 with a pair of Soda spoons. We took a King on our port high wire #4 wire diver out 415 with an 8″ Flip Fin Green Dragon Slayer Paddle/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly. We took another King on our low #5 wire diver out 315 with an 8″ Flip Fin Megatron Paddle/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly. We had the fins deployed on our Flip Fin Paddles. We took a King on a 500 copper with a standard UV DW Beefeater spoon. We took fish on 375 & 450 coppers with mag spoons. I think the water was the roughest we have fished in this year. We have used Dreamweaver Premium Strips in all our meat rigs and Morgan’s Tackle copper and wire all season. Today was our last trip for the 2022 season. If the Good Lord is willing, we will continue our reports in the 2023 season.

Got off to a slow start this morning up north. Our Fish Hawk showed 68 degrees down 100 feet. The graph looked good, lots of fish and bait. It was full daylight, and we still did not have a bite. We finally took a King on a 400 copper on a mag Beefeater. We hit a fish on the chute rigger down 150 with an 8″ White Slick Flip Fin Paddle/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly. We missed that one. We lowered it down later in the morning to 180 feet. It went two times there and we boated a nice King on it. We moved out deeper and had good action between 400 and 500 feet of water. Our best rod was an out down set at 135 with a pair of Super Slim Green Hulks. They went 5 times. The last time it went we had a double on the same rod, 2 Lakers. We took another double on the same rod on our starboard out down set a 110 with a pair of Blue Flounder Pounders. We tried a south troll, but it sucked. The waves were big, so we turned back north and had a good downwind troll. Our port high wire #4 Deeper Diver with a DW Green Dragon Slayer Flip Fin Paddle/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly out 315 took a big Coho and a Steelhead. We had the same set up on our starboard low wire #5 Deeper Diver out 220 and took a Steelhead on it.  We took fish on mag spoons on our 375, 400, 450 and 500 coppers. The waves were big, our crew held up well and did a great job on the rods. We use Dreamweaver Premium Strips in all our meat rigs and Morgan’s copper and wire.