Ludington Area Fishing Reports

It was rough heading south this morning. We set up in 120 feet of water and put it on a 320 troll and worked our way out to deeper water. It was a slow start again today. We hit 2 fish on our coppers that didn’t stay hooked up before we took a King on a 225 copper with a Bloody Nose spoon. We took a small King on our starboard out down set at 45 feet with a SS Super Bread and another SS Super Bread stacked 8 feet above it. That out down was our best rigger going 4 times. Our best diver was a high wire #4 Deeper Diver out 150 with an 8″ Kevin’s Girlfriend Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly.  We never went too long without some kind of action. We had several fish that hit, were on and didn’t stay on. Our coppers with mag spoons took a lot of bites. We had mag DW Beefeater spoons on our 225 coppers and mag Mongolian Beefs on 200 and 275 coppers. They all went more than once. Our 8″ White Slick Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly on a High wire #4 Deeper Diver out 170 only went once. Our port low wire #5 Deeper Diver out 85 with a 10″ White Slick Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine Dreamweaver Meat Rig went 3 times. Our starboard low wire #5 Deeper Diver out 100 had an 8″ DW Flip Fin Magic Man Paddle/Green Gasoline DW Meat Rig that went twice. We left one plug out all morning on a 175 copper and it took a King near the end of our trip. It was a Natural Glow Dreamweaver Captain’s Choice Cut Plug. The waves got big out in the deeper water. We just made one long troll and ended up about 7 miles northwest from where we started. We had a hardy crew that did a great job on the rods. We use Dreamweaver Premium Strips in all our meat rigs and Morgan’s Tackle Copper and wire.

 

Started slow for us this morning. We set up in 90 feet of water south of Ludington and put it on a 250 troll. It was 43 degrees down 40 feet on our Fish Hawk. We had plugs on an out down at 40 feet, 7.5 color core, 10 color core, 150 copper and a 200 copper. Our first fish came on a spoon on our port out down set at 55 feet. Our Captain’s Choice Natural Glow plug on the other out down at 40 feet went but we missed it. We had a standard DW UV Beefeater go on a 250 copper. We started pulling our plugs and putting on spoons. We had a small King riding on our 10-color core with Captain’s Choice Green Black Ladderback plug. The further west we trolled the down temp warmed. We dropped the probe down to 60 feet and was 45-degrees. Our action started picking up once we turned on a 330-troll going with the waves. Our 10″ White Slick Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine Dreamweaver Meat Rig out 80 on our port low wire #5 Deeper Diver went 6 times. We only boated 2 of them. Our port high wire #4 Deeper Diver out 170 with an 8″ White Slick Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly went 4 times and took our biggest King. We took a big Coho on an 8″ Kevin’s Girlfriend Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly out 190 on our starboard high wire #4 Deeper Diver. Our starboard low wire diver didn’t go until we put a Magic Man Flip Fin DW Paddle/Green Gasoline Dreamweaver Meat rig on it. It was out 110 with the fin deployed. We missed a bunch of fish on our coppers. They would be on, then they would be off. Our best copper bait was a standard DW UV Beefeater. We had it on a 250 & 275 copper. They both went a couple times. We pulled our Paddle off the chute rigger and put a mag Dreamweaver UV Wonder Bread spoon stacked with a standard DW UV Wonder Bread spoon down 70 feet. A big Steelhead took the stack, came to the surface, and threw the bait. It was a real nice day to be fishing on Lake Michigan. We use Dreamweaver Premium Strips in all our meat rigs and Morgan’s Tackle copper and wire.