Ludington Area Fishing Reports

Fishing report by Capt. Adam from Reel 2 Reel Outdoors

With the big storm last night we ran up north and set up in 150′.  Got about 10 rod set and the chute down 95′ with a Dreamweaver black slick 11″ paddle pickle sunshine fly, took off.  The fish was on the stack at 25′ on a glow spoon.  A nice 3 year old king.  While we were fighting that one the outdown at 75′ went with a #3 pinkie plug.  That fish end up breaking off.  It look like the plug was hooked deep and chaffed off the line.  As soon as we reset the chute it went again with and king.  Once again we reset the chute and it was instantly hooked up for the third time.  Both were nice kings.  Then the coppers started to fire with a 225 Black ladder back, then 350 with an ace high pinkie.  we road for a little while and we started to turn around.  Made about a 15 degree turn and we hit a quad.  300 black ladder back plug, 300 glow spoon, 250 black ladder back plug and 240′ back on a High Wire with a Kevin’s Girlfriend 10″ Dreamweaver Spin Doctor and a Big Water Green Mile.  We landed all four fish!!  The bite stayed steady as the wind started to build.  All the divers were producing except one high so we put out a small green crush tape Dreamweaver 8″ paddle and a green crinkle back 255′.  Five minutes later we were on!  A nice coho!!  We had a great morning going 17-25 with mostly silver fish.  The biggest fish of the day came on the high wire back 240′ and actually broke the net when First Mate Seth scooped it.  Awesome day on the Free Style!

The Free Styles runs Dreamweaver Premium Strips in all our meat rigs and pull our lead cores and  Morgan’s Copper with Dreamweaver Ninja Boards.

Fishing Report by Capt. Adam, Reel 2 Reel Outdoors

After leaving the dock a little late as we debated the wave conditions, we decided to go to the pierheads and take a look. The conditions looked good and we headed north. I ran north to 01.8 in 140′ before I found a spot to set in. We started setting rods and about 7 rods in the 300 copper took off in the dark. It had a Ghost Ace hi plug on it. While we fought that fish, the High diver at 240′ went off with a black ladder back Ace Hi. That fish came off but we landed a nice 3 year old on the 300. Started getting rods reset and the outdown went at 85′ with a pair of Dreamweaver SS Super bread spoons free slid. A nice king that we fought all the way to the boat and the hooks pulled out. The outdown went again at 85′ this time with a #3 silver horde pinkie. Another 3 year old king. The same high diver went again and we lost that one. The other high went at 240′ and we caught a mature king. That came on a Dreamweaver zebra captain’s choice plug. Another bite on the super breads at 85′ brought a nice mature king that took out over 700′ of line. While we fought that rigger both low divers went. One at 125′ and the other at 140′ one with 10 White Slick spin doctor with a pickled sunshine meat rig and the other a 10″ Kevin’s Girlfriend with a BWT Green Mile meat rig. Both of these rigs went multiple times and produced fish later in the trip. We had quite a few more bites on riggers and diver but lost a lot of fish today. Just couldn’t keep them stuck. We turned it around and boated or last 2 bites, one on the rigger with SS Super Breads and the other on the low diver with the white slick pickle rig. A great day on the water and we ended up 10-19.