Ludington Area Fishing Reports

After the southwest wind blowing all night and a lot of boats going south we went north this morning. We set up in 130 feet of water just south of the bath house. Our first bite came on a low wire #5 Deeper Diver out 140 with a 10″ White Slick Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine Meat Rig. It hit and was gone. Our high wire #4 Deeper Diver out  200 with an 8″ White Slick Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly took off with a big fish that took out all our wire and was well into backing. Our 325 copper with a standard Cyclonite was next. Great start! We got the fish on the 350 but after a long fight the other fish got off. The low wire with the 10″ Spin Doctor out 140 went 2 more times and we didn’t get either one. We missed a fish on the chute rigger down 95 with an 11″ White Slick Paddle and had a rigger down 85 with a pair of Supper Slim Green Hulks pop but it was a no show. It took a while for our next bite. It came on the same 325 copper with the Cyclonite. It was a nice King . We had to wait until we were getting ready to pull lines for last fish. It was our biggest fish of the trip and came on a 250 copper with an 8″ White Slick Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly.  We use Dreamweaver Premium Strips in all our meat rigs and Morgan’s Tackle copper and wire.

After our tough trip yesterday, we decided to try fishing south of Ludington today. We had all our rods set in the dark before we took our first fish, a King, on a high #4 Deeper Diver out 150 with a Super Slim Blue Skinny Jeans. It wasn’t long before our starboard out down set at 70 took off with a big King. We had a DW Captain’s Choice Natural Glow Plug stacked with a Super Slim Super Bread on it. The King took the stack. Our port out down set at 85 with a pair of SS Green Hulks was next with another big King. It took the stack too. That combo went 2 more times but we didn’t get either one. We took a King on a 325 copper with a standard Cyclonite. Our 350 copper with an 8″ White Slick Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine Dreamweaver Meat Rig took 2 fish. Our wire divers had been quite for a while so we put a 10″ White Slick Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine Meat Rig on the starboard low #5 Deeper Diver and the same 10″ Spin Doctor with a Green Gasoline DW Meat Rig on the port low wire. The port didn’t go but we took a mature King on the starboard side. We swapped out the SS Blue Jeans on one of our high wires out 215 for a Dreamweaver Stud Flip Fin Paddle/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly and took a decent King on it. We run the Flip Fins with the fin deployed.   Our chute rigger hadn’t had a bite all morning, so we put a Trout rig on it and took a nice Laker at the end of our trip. Our crew did a great job not losing any fish that were hooked up. We use Dreamweaver Premium Strips in all our meat rigs and Morgan’s Tackle copper and wire.