Ludington Area Fishing Reports

We fished north today setting up in 140 feet of water south of the bath house. We hooked up with a nice fish on our third rod down. It was a regular DW Green Jeans 70 down on an out down . It made a pretty good run then escaped. Before we had all our divers set we hit a big fish on the chute rigger down 85 with an 11″ DW White Crush Paddle/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly. That fish, pictured below,  put up one heck of a fight. It took close to a half hour to land. We took a Laker on an 8″ Light Green Fish Scale Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly out 260 on a high wire diver. We took another King on a high wire out 220 on a mag glow spoon. The action died after that. We trolled out to 250 feet of water and worked back in but did not take another bite.

Heavy fog this morning when we headed out. We set up in 60 feet of water straight out of Ludington and headed west. We had 3 rods in the water when we hit a fish on a high wire diver with an 8″ Gold Spin Doctor/Fire Tiger WhirlyGig. That one got away. We hit 3 fish on that set up today. We took 2 Trout on our chute rigger with an 8″ Gold Spin Doctor/Wonder Bread Spin-N-Glo. Our last Trout bite came on a low wire ticking bottom with an 8″ Gold Spin Doctor/White Pink Dot Spin-N-Glo. We worked between 60 and 90 feet of water. All our bites were on Gold Blades. We took a small Salmon on a 150 copper with a mag Fuzzy Bear Modified Carmel Dolphin. We finished with 5 Lakers and a small Salmon on our 5 hour trip. The fog never lifted all morning.