Ludington Area Fishing Reports

The down temp was better this morning up north. It was 54 degrees on our Fish Hawk down 60 feet in 140 feet of water. There was a stiff wind out of the east, so it was hard to get a good north troll. The picture on our graph looked good, lots of bait and fish. We hit a triple just as it was getting light landing two of them. We landed a mature King on a Bloody Nose down 65 on an out down. Lost one on a 375 copper with a mag Beefeater and boated a small King on a 400 copper with a mag Flounder Pounder. We were seeing less bait and fish the further north we trolled. We hit one more fish on the out down with the Bloody Nose that we missed before we turned back south. We hit three fish on our south troll and landed one of them. We missed a fish on a low wire #5 Deeper Diver out 150 with a standard DW Spotted Blue Dolphin. We missed another one on the 375 copper with the mag Beefeater and took a King on the chute rigger down 110 with an 11″ DW White Slick Paddle stacked with a Wonder Bread spoon. The fish took the stack. We turned back south in the 00’s in 180 feet of water.  We took a King on our starboard out down set at 110 with a pair of Super Slim Super Breads. We took two more fish on the chute rigger. The last one came 145 down. Both fish took the stack. The wind switched to the south and the down temp got warmer. It kept getting warmer all morning. When we pulled lines, it was 68 degrees down 90 feet in 240 feet of water. We use Dreamweaver Premium Strips in all our meat rigs and Morgan’s copper and wire.

 

It was hard to believe the readout we got on our Fish Hawk this morning up north. It was 69 degrees down 90 feet in 100 feet of water. After the northwest blow we were expecting cold water, not water that warm. It was rough up there too. We trolled into the waves and worked our way out deeper. We hit a big fish on a 375 copper with a mag Beefeater spoon that ended up getting off. We had to wait quite a while for the next bite. It came on an out down set at 95 with a pair of Bloody Nose spoons. It was a small Brown Trout. We went almost four miles north of the Point and out to almost 300 feet of water before we turned back south. The down temp remained 69 degrees down 90 feet. We took a small King on an out down set at 110 feet with a pair of standard Beefeater spoons and missed one on the other out down set at 95. We took another small King on a 450 copper with a mag Flounder Pounder. Our starboard high wire #4 Deeper Diver out 310 with an 8″ Fat Nancy Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly took a two-year-old King. Our port high wire #4 Deeper Diver out 300 with a Stud Flip Fin Paddle/Pickled Sunshine Action took a nice Coho. We had a fish tug on it earlier but didn’t hook up. Our crew held up well in the big waves and made the most out of the few opportunities they had on the rods. We use Dreamweaver Premium Strips in all our meat rigs and Morgan’s Tackle copper and wire.