Ludington Area Fishing Reports

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.

The down temp was better this morning up north. It was 54 degrees on our Fish Hawk down 60 feet in 140 feet of water. There was a stiff wind out of the east, so it was hard to get a good north troll. The picture on our graph looked good, lots of bait and fish. We hit a triple just as it was getting light landing two of them. We landed a mature King on a Bloody Nose down 65 on an out down. Lost one on a 375 copper with a mag Beefeater and boated a small King on a 400 copper with a mag Flounder Pounder. We were seeing less bait and fish the further north we trolled. We hit one more fish on the out down with the Bloody Nose that we missed before we turned back south. We hit three fish on our south troll and landed one of them. We missed a fish on a low wire #5 Deeper Diver out 150 with a standard DW Spotted Blue Dolphin. We missed another one on the 375 copper with the mag Beefeater and took a King on the chute rigger down 110 with an 11″ DW White Slick Paddle stacked with a Wonder Bread spoon. The fish took the stack. We turned back south in the 00’s in 180 feet of water.  We took a King on our starboard out down set at 110 with a pair of Super Slim Super Breads. We took two more fish on the chute rigger. The last one came 145 down. Both fish took the stack. The wind switched to the south and the down temp got warmer. It kept getting warmer all morning. When we pulled lines, it was 68 degrees down 90 feet in 240 feet of water. We use Dreamweaver Premium Strips in all our meat rigs and Morgan’s copper and wire.