Ludington Area Fishing Reports

We set up north today in 85 feet of water in front of the Bath House. It was 55 degrees down 65 feet. We just finished setting rods when we hit a fish on a 10 color core with a plug. It turned out to be a 3 year old King. I had warned our clients about the lack of fish so we felt lucky to have a fish in the box. We marked very few fish on the south side of the Point . Once we hit the 04’s we started marking big mounds of bait, not many fish but lots of bait. We marked bait out to 260 feet of water. We had a bite on a Super Slim Chilly Willy free sliding above a DW Chilly Willy down 65 on an out down. It was on for a minute but got away. Our third a final bite came on an out down set at 80 feet with a DW Spotted Dolphin. It is very discouraging to see all the bait and very few fish. Waves up to 7 feet are predicted for tomorrow and Wednesday doesn’t look much better. All the wind we’ve been having hasn’t helped the fishing . Hoping things improve by the end of the week. We pull our coppers and cores with Dreamweaver Ninja Boards.

 

Fished south today setting up in 90 feet of water in front of the Project. The temp 50 ft. down was reading 47 degrees on our Fish Hawk. We had all our lines off the bottom hoping to hook up with silver fish but after riding a while without a bite we put Trout rigs on our chute rigger and both high divers. Our first fish came on a high wire diver ticking bottom with an 8″ Lake Trout Candy Spin Doctor/Chrome Blue WhirlyGig with Glow Wings. We hit a Trout on our other high wire diver ticking bottom with an 8 ” Chrome Spin Doctor/Wonder Bread Spin -N-Glo. We lost that one. We hit 3 more Trout on our port out down with an 8″ Lake Trout Candy Spin Doctor/Chrome Blue WhirlyGig with Glow Wings and landed 2 of them. We marked lots of big schools of bait but very few fish. We worked between 85 and 105 feet of water.