Ludington Area Fishing Reports

Tough day up north today. We set up in 130 feet of water and trolled north northwest. We didn’t boat a fish until 8:00 a.m. It was a big Coho that came on a regular size Fuzzy Bear Modified Blue Dolphin free sliding above a mag Fuzzy Bear Modified Blue Dolphin 85 down on an out down. We took the 27 lb. King pictured above on a mag Dreamweaver Blue Dolphin on a 250 copper. We hit two fish on a high wire diver out 185 on a 10″ Slick Blue Bubble Spin Doctor/Blue Bubble Dreamweaver Meat Rig but they didn’t hook up and got off. We missed a fish on a low wire out 90 with a 10″ White Crush Blue Bubble Spin Doctor/Vanilla  Ice Big Water Meat Rig. We lost a big fish on a 175 copper with a SS Lemon Ice. We took two small Kings on a 175 copper with a Super Slim Rasta Goose. We marked a lot of bait between 160 & 200 feet of water a mile north and south of the Point and that is where we had most of our bites. We use Dreamweaver Premium Strips in all our meat rigs and pull our lead core and Morgan’s Tackle copper with Dreamweaver Ninja Boards.

Just when you think you have things all figured out the fish let you know you don’t. We went north today fishing the same water we’ve had very good success in the last 3 days. We had all lines in the water and rode for a while when we took a rip on a high wire diver out 135 with a 10″ White Atomic Killer/Green Moo Dreamweaver Meat Rig. It didn’t hook up. We were letting out a 175 copper with a Super Slim Blue Skinny Jeans and a fish hit it. On for a minute then gone. We turned it out deeper and the high wire with the White Killer took off with a big fish. While one brother fighting it another brother caught a Steelhead on a DW Green Skinny Jeans 55 down on an out down. After a long battle the King on the wire was almost to the boat and got off. We took another Steelhead on the 175 copper with the SS Blue Skinny Jeans. Then no more bites until we were starting to pull lines. We took the big Steelhead, middle picture, on a Lemon Ice Super Slim 50 down on an out down. We covered a lot of water and changed lots of baits but had a hard time getting bites today. We use Dreamweaver Premium Strips in all our meat rigs and pull our lead cores and Morgan’s Tackle copper with Dreamweaver Ninja Boards.