Ludington Area Fishing Reports

We fished south of Ludington today seeing if we could find a spring King or two. We set up in 100 feet of water and trolled south. We took our first King on a high Slide Diver out 65 with a Yeck Fireball . We took another King on that same bait on a 3 color core. Our chute rigger down 65 with an 11″ Dreamweaver Paddle/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly took our biggest King. We dropped it down 85 a little later in the morning and it took a Coho. Our out down set at 45 took a King on a pair of Super Slim Green Jeans.  We lost a big fish at the back of the boat on a SS Spotted Magic Man on 7.5 color core and we lost another one on a 5 color core with an SS Rasta Goose. We had a SS Magic Man on a Slide Diver out 75 that went twice. We missed a fish on a 250 copper with a 10″ Atomic Chrome Killer Spin Doctor/Yellow Gasoline Dreamweaver Meat Rig.  We worked between 100 and 150 feet of water. The action was good early but slowed down the last couple hours of the trip. We use Dreamweaver Premium Strips in all our meat rigs and use Morgans Tackle copper on all our copper rods.

We ran a half day afternoon charter today. The sun was shining when we left the dock and it seemed like it was going to be a perfect afternoon for a trip . The wind picked up considerably from the morning and had switched around  to the northwest. We ran south setting up in 70 feet of water and trolled south. The sun shined all afternoon but the wind was hard to deal with. Our surface temp was 41 degrees and with that wind blowing in our faces it was cold. We put two bags in to help slow us down but it was still hard to maintain a good trolling speed and to keep our lures near the bottom where we wanted them. We stayed on the south troll for about 3 miles without a bite. We turned back north and got a break from having the wind in our faces but  still no bites. We worked between 55 and 70 feet of water through the same area we had good action on Thursday. We finally hit a fish on our turn back south. It was a nice Trout the hit a White Pink Dot Spin-N-Glo behind an 8″ Gold Spin Doctor on our high wire diver. The fish put up a good fight in that cold water taking drag and making a couple runs. We took another Laker on our turn back north on a 7 color core with a Yeck Fireball. Our last fish came in a low wire diver with a Lake Trout Candy Spin Doctor/Chrome Chartreuse WhirlyGig. We had a good crew that stuck it out under less than ideal conditions.