Ludington Area Fishing Reports

Our crew today wanted to try for Kings. We headed south and set up in the 46’s in 100 feet of water. Our 1st rigger in was an out down set 45 down with a pair of regular size Fuzzy Bear Yellowtail spoons. I was reaching for another rod when that rigger got bit hard. It hit the slider and the fish escaped. We took our 1st fish on a 225 copper with a glow spoon. That 225 took 2 of our fish today. We missed one on a 200 copper with a regular size Dreamweaver Raspberry Carbon spoon. We rode for a while before we took our 3rd King. It came on a 300 copper with a 8″ Seneca Special Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly. It was our biggest fish of the day. The wind was picking up toward the end of our trip so we turned back north. We took a King on our chute rigger down 95 with a pair of Mag Dreamweaver Blue Dolphins and took another King on a high diver out 125 with another Mag DW Blue Dolphin. Our last bite came on a Mag DW Beefeater spoon out 135 on a high wire diver. It hit and was gone.

After the big north blow we weren’t really sure where to start this morning. We figured the water had cooled enough for Lake Trout to come  back into where we had been fishing for them in May. We set up south of the Project in approximately 50 feet of water . We hit 3 fish pretty quick and lost a couple more. We thought it was going to easy loading up on the Lakers. We thought wrong. After the initial flurry it was slow going. We trolled south to about the Pentwater pierheads and turned back north. We took our biggest Trout late in the trip on a high wire diver on the bottom with an 8″  Chrome Crush UV Spin Doctor with Yellow Dots and a Mountain Dew Yellow Dot Whirly Gig. We took 2 Trout on an out down bouncing bottom with an 8″ Chrome Spin Doctor Green Glow Whirly Gig. The rest of our fish came on our wire diver fished on or near the bottom with 8″ Chrome Spin Doctors and Whirly Gigs. We had out 3, 5, 7.5 & 10 colors cores hoping for a King or two but we didn’t get any takers.