Ludington Area Fishing Reports

Had a fun trip up north this morning. Hit our first fish in the dark on our starboard out down set at 80 with a pair of Super Slim Super Breads. It was a King. Just got it in when our high wire # 4 Deeper Diver out 300 with a SS Rasbery Carbon took a hit. We boated another King. It was steady action most of the trip. Our 325 copper with a Super Slim Green Hulk went 3 times. Our 375 copper with a standard DW EVM spoon took a nice King and a Laker. A big White Paddle on the chute rigger down 110 went 3 times. One was a big King that made a couple long runs before it got away. Two of our mature Kings came on a DW Flip Fin White Crush Two Face Paddle/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly out 200 on a low #5 Deeper Diver. Our biggest King, a 25 pounder, took a Stud Flip Fin Paddle/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly out 310 on a #4 high Deeper Diver. A SS UV Super Bread on 300 copper went twice. Some of the other captains I talked to were doing good running meat. But we had our speed bumped up and catching them on spoons, Flip Fin Paddles & the Big Paddle down the chute.  We use Dreamweaver Premium Strips in our meat rigs and Morgan’s Tackle copper and wire.

We didn’t get the big early bite this morning up north. We set up in about the same spot as yesterday. The graph looked good but we had all our rods in the water before we hit our first fish. It was a small Salmon off an out down set at 95 with a standard DW Green Jeans stacked with a Super Slim Green Jeans. It took the stack. We took a mature King on a low wire Deeper Diver out 170 with a 8″ Flip Fin Two Face Paddle/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly. All 3 of our mature Kings came on Filp Fins with the fin deployed. We ended up running the Two Face on both low wires and a Green Dragon Slayer Flip Fin/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly out 300 on a high wire. The starboard low out 170 took 2 matures and the port low out 160 took a smaller King and a Coho. The high out 300 took our biggest King. We had another big rip on it but we didn’t get a good hookup. We had an 8″ White Slick Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly out 300 on our other high diver. It went twice but we didn’t get either one. Not a lot of action on our boards today. Took a small King and lost a good fish on a 325 with a Super Slim Green Hulk. We started out with a big White Slick DW Paddle/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly stacked with a mag DW Blue Spotted Dolphin then switched over to an 8″ Kevin’s Girlfriend Spin Doctor/Green Mile meat rig. No bites on the main baits but the stack went twice. The Lake was beautiful, and we had decent action. We use Dreamweaver Premium Strips in all our meat rigs and Morgan’s Tackle copper and wire.