Ludington Area Fishing Reports

It was tough fishing up north today. We had to run further north than yesterday to find 50 degree surface temp. We set up in 170 feet of water and hit a nice King on our chute rigger down 80 on a mag DW Blue Hulk. That fish ended up being the biggest fish of the day. We took a small King on a 5 color core with a Yellow Skinny Jeans Super Slim. We fished up there for a couple hours and only had one more bite. There were several Ludington boats fishing the same area and it was slow for them too. We pulled lines and ran back south. We set up in 100 feet of water a mile north of the Point. We put our wire divers and riggers on the bottom for Trout and our coppers & cores out for Kings or whatever. We caught 5 Trout, 4 on riggers and 1 on a low wire diver. The all came on 8″ Chrome Spin Doctors and Chartreuse/Green Whirly Gigs.

Went north again today. Surface temp by the Point was 41 degrees so we kept heading north until the surface got a little warmer. We set right down on fish. First 3 rods in took fish but the were small. Talked to another boat fishing the same water and he was hitting bigger fish inside us. I turned east and the morning mayhem started. We only had a 2 person charter and had 4 kings on at the same time twice. After the first couple hours the action slowed way down for us. Our hot baits were a pair of Super Slim Super Breads 60 down on an out down, a pair of DW Blue Hulks 80 down on the chute rigger, a mag Green Skinny Jeans out 120 on a high wire diver and a Yeck Purple Ham on a 7.5 color core. We took a King 90 back on a low wire with an 8″ Scotty Blue Glow Spin Doctor/Green Mirage Fly and missed one on an 8″ Blue Bubble Spin Doctor/Blue Bubble Action Fly out 150 on a high wire diver.