Ludington Area Fishing Reports

There were some good size waves on the lake when we left the pier heads this morning. Our crew was eager to go so we headed straight out setting up in 95 feet of water. That was the shallowest depth we fished all morning. Most of our action came between 100 and 130 feet of water. Our 2 best rigs consisted of WhirlyGigs fished near the bottom  behind 8″ Chrome Spin Doctors. The Green Glow and Blue Chrome with Glow Wings were best. Our 2 biggest fish came on Big Foot Spin Doctors 85 down on the chute rigger. One was a Laker on a White Crush/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly and the other was a big Coho, pictured above, on a White Slick Mountain Dew with the same fly. We had another good fish on the Mountain Dew Big Foot but it came up into both wire divers and got away.

Good fishing again today. We were back at the dock by 9:15. First Mate Cory and I had to get in on the action. We hit 4 fish when we were pulling lines with a 4 person limit of Lake Trout. So we are both having Trout for dinner tonight. We took 2 Kings today. They weren’t big mature Kings, but they weighed between 6 & 8 lbs. and put up a good fight. We set up in 105 feet of water straight out of Ludington and put it on a northwest troll. We hit fish all the way out to 180 feet of water. We wanted to turn around when we got to 150 feet but the fish wouldn’t let us. They kept biting. Our hot rig again today was an 8″ Chrome Spin Doctor/Chrome Blue Yellow Dot Glow Winged WhirlyGig. We had  8″ Chrome Spin Doctors on every rod except the chute rigger. We had Big Foot 95 down on the chute rigger with a Pickled Sunshine Action Fly hoping to hook up with a big King. No big King but we did catch a good size Laker on it.