Ludington Area Fishing Reports

We fished south of Ludington today setting up in 110 feet of water. The picture on our graph was clean but it didn’t take long to hit our first fish. Our chute rigger down 60 fired with a pair of Dreamweaver EVM spoons. We missed that one Our starboard high wire took a hit out 120 with a 10″ White Slick Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine Dreamweaver Meat Rig. Missed that one too. Finally got our first one in the boat on a low wire diver out 85 with an 8″ Chrome Killer Spin Doctor/Green Mile Big Water Meat Rig. We took another one on a 175 copper with a Super Slim Super Bread. We had a pair of Super Breads on an out down set at 65 and took 2 fish on those. We had a Super Slim Green Skinny Jeans on our other 175 copper and it went twice. A high wire diver out 115 with an 8″ Chrome NBK Mountain Dew Spin Doctor/Yellow Gasoline DW Meat Rig took our biggest King. We ended up out in 170 feet of water. Our Super Breads on the out down hadn’t gone for a while so we switched them for  a pair of Yeck Copperheads. We set the bottom one at 55 feet free slid the other one. We were pulling lines and hit a big Coho on the slider. We got him almost to the net and it got off. We put them back down and they went again. This time the fish ran out 400 feet of line before it came off. Oh well, fish stories are never told about the little one’s that get away. We use Dreamweaver Premium Strips in all our meat rigs and Morgan’s Tackle copper on our copper rods and Morgan’s wire on our wire rods.      

We fished north today. We got off to a good start with 2 bites before we had 4 rods in the water. One on the chute rigger down 65 with a mag size DW EVM spoon and a regular EVM stacked above it. We lost that one , but caught a good size Coho on a Super Slim DW Green Skinny Jeans free sliding above a regular Green Skinny Jeans. It went a little south on our next fish. It was a big King that got hooked in the side of the head on the mag EVM on the chute rigger and it took 45 minutes to land. We lost a lot of prime time fishing fighting that fish, but the good news is we got it. We had 2 more Kings hooked that way. We got one and lost one right at the net. Our best diver rod was a 10″ White Slick Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine DW Meat Rig out first 120 then 180 on a high wire diver. Only a couple board bites. We hit 2 fish on a 175 copper with a SS Blue Skinny Jeans. The pair of Green Skinny Jeans on our port out down was good with both the main bait and the slider taking hits. We use Dreamweaver Premium Strips in all our meat rigs and Morgan’s Tackle copper on our copper rods and Morgan wire on our wire divers.