Ludington Area Fishing Reports

The Kings were hungry this morning! We set up north of Ludington off the Bank in 110 feet of water in the high 01’s and trolled north.  We had our hands full trying to get our lines set. The first four rods in all fired with nice fish. The surface temp had cooled to 47 degrees and the fish were full of fight. Our out downs were set at 69 & 80 ft. and the chute rigger with a big White Paddle/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly was down 95′. A pair of regular size Dreamweaver Superbread Spoons on the 80′ rigger was our hottest rod. A Glow Blade Mountain Dew Spin Doctor/Mountain Dew Strong Fly back 180 on a low wire was good too.

We put one of Big Water Tackle’s new Blue Moo Meat Rigs behind a 10″ Blue Bubble Spin Doctor out on a 350 copper. It wasn’t out long before a fat King hit it. That was our 14th fish. The 15th came on a BWT Froggie Meat Rig/10″ Green Crush Spin Doctor combo. We took most of our fish between 110 & 130 feet of water.

The fish were biting today at Ludington. We got an early start and headed up north. We ran to the 02’s and set up in 100 feet of water. Our first rod down was a White 12″ Paddle/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly. We were going to set it at 85′ but a big King hit it before it could get there. The bite was on!  Our out downs were set at 95′ & 85′ and the chute rigger with the big White Paddle was down 85′. We ran four wire divers. The highs were out 180′ & 185′ and the lows were both set at 150′. It took a while for us to get any cores or coppers out. We ended up running two 10 colors cores, a 300, and a 350 copper.  We had a regular size DW Wonder Bread on one out down and a 8″ White Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly on the other one. We had glow spoons free sliding above them both. A mag Fuzzy Bear Modified Blue Dolphin on a high wire was very good and the same spoon in the regular size was hot on a 10 color core. An 8″ Mountain Dew Spin Doctor/Mountain Dew Strong Fly on a low wire took several nice Kings. We ended up sliding out off the bank and took most of our fish between 130 & 150 feet of water. We were headed back to port at 8:30 a.m. with a tired but happy crew.