Ludington Area Fishing Reports

Went north this morning and had our slowest start of the year. We were marking bait and some fish but no takers. We finally got a bite on a high wire diver out 200 with a 10″ White Crush Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine Dreamweaver Meat Rig. It got off and so did our next one on a 250 copper with a glow spoon. We finally boated our first fish, a nice King, on a 300 copper with an 8″ Kevin’s Girlfriend/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly. We lost another one on a low wire diver out 145 with an 8″ White Crush-Slick Spin Doctor/Liquid Sunshine Action Fly. We took a small King on that rig later in the morning. We took a King on a low wire out 150 with an 8″ Showtime Spin Doctor/Blue Gasoline Dreamweaver Meat Rig. Another big King took a 10″ Kevin’s Girlfriend Spin Doctor/Green Mile Big Water Meat Rig on a 300 copper. Our biggest King of the morning took a 10″ Showtime Spin Doctor/Blue Gasoline DW Meat Rig. We missed one on a 350 copper with a 10″ Yellow Bikini Bottom Spin Doctor/Yellow Glow Dreamweaver Meat Rig. Our last big King hit a 10″ UV Slick Crush Spin Doctor/UV Gasoline Dreamweaver Meat Rig down 70 on an out down. We had a heck of a time getting it in  the boat. It went under then over both wire divers and really made a mess. We were lucky to box him. We use Dreamweaver Premium Strips in all our meat rigs and Morgan’s Tackle copper on all our copper rods.

We headed north today hoping to duplicate our last two days action. What a difference a day makes. It didn’t happen. The down temp had warmed considerably, 55 degrees yesterday at 50 feet. Today 65 at 60 feet on our Fish Hawk. We trolled quite a distance from our starting point before our first bite. A big King hit our chute rigger set at 100 ft. with a 10″ Glow Blade White Crush Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine Dreamweaver Meat Rig. The meat rig some how got wrapped around the flasher and broke off near the back of the boat. a real heartbreaker. We talked to some other boats and it wasn’t happening for them either. We turned off the Bank and headed west. We hit a King , pictured above, on a 250 copper with an 8″ Kevin’s Girlfriend Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly. We were very happy to boat that one. We ended up changing about everything that had been working for us the last few days trying to get some more bites, but the last big King we caught came on a 225 copper with a 10″ Green Scale White Crush Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine Dreamweaver Meat Rig. That one we didn’t change. One of the small fish, a Coho, came on a 7.5 color core with a Yeck Fireball and the other small King on the 250 copper with the Kevin’s Girlfriend/Pickled Sunshine Fly. We use Dreamweaver Premium Strips in our meat rigs and Morgan’s copper on all our copper rods.