Ludington Area Fishing Reports

We fished south of Ludington Harbor  today starting in 110 feet of water. We hit a big fish setting up 52 down on an out down with a Super Slim Super Bread free sliding above a DW Super Bread. It was on for a while but ended up getting off. That was the last bite we had for over an hour. We worked in and out, kept messing with the speed, and ended up turning back north before we finally took a Laker on the chute rigger with an 8″ Chrome Spin Doctor/Chrome Blue Glow Wing WhirlyGig. We took another Trout on that rig and took a King on a 175 copper with a Super Slim Rasta Goose. We turned back south and picked up a few more Trout. We picked up five more Trout and missed a couple on our wire divers. Our best  two rigs were the 8″ Lake Trout Candy Spin Doctors/Chrome Blue Glow Wing WirlyGig and a 8″ Chrome Spin Doctor/Chrome Chartreuse WhirlyGig.

 

We fished north again this morning. We set up south of Big Point Sable in 120 feet of water and trolled north. We hit our first fish on a 7.5 color core with a Super Slim Rasta Goose. It was a good size King that went in the box. We took our second fish, a Laker, on an 11″ DW Black Paddle/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly 85 down on the chute rigger. We hit another big King just north of the Point on a 10″ White Atommic Killer Spin Doctor/Green Moo Dreamweaver meat rig out 135 on a high wire diver.  It ran out over 600 feet of wire. After a long fight we lost it right at the back of the boat. It was slow going after that. We put three more Trout in the box and were getting ready to pull lines when we hit another big King. It came on a 10″ Yellow Bikini Bottom Spin Doctor/Green Gasoline Dreamweaver meat rig, pictured above, out 110 on a high wire diver. After another long fight we boated it. That Spin Doctor/Meat Rig combo was very good for us yesterday. The bites came hard today. On our last pass by the Point the surface temp had dropped to 44 degrees. We use Dreamweaver Premium Strips in all our meat rigs and Morgan’s Tackle copper on our copper rods.