Ludington Area Fishing Reports

Good fishing north of Ludington today. Most all of our bigger fish came on our wire divers.  Our biggest King today, 21lb. 5oz., came on a high wire diver out 200 ft. with a 10″ White Crush Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine Dreamweaver Meat Rig and a DW Premium Strip. We took 3 of our bigger fish on that set up today. A 10″ Glow Blade Blue Bubble Spin Doctor/Glow Blue Bubble Action Fly went 4 times on a low wire diver out 135. Our other high wire diver out 175 with a 10″ Net Minder Showtime Spin Doctor/Life Is Good DW Meat Rig took some nice Kings too. A 10″ White Slick Mountain Dew Spin Doctor/4th Of July Big Water Meat Rig out 125 on a low wire diver took a good King. We started out with spoons on our out downs, coppers & cores but all they were taking were small fish so we ended up taking all our spoons off so we wouldn’t have to kill anymore small Kings.  We  trolled between 110 & 170 feet of water. We use Dreamweaver Premium Strips in all our meat rigs and Morgan’s Tackle copper on all our copper rods.

We fished north today setting up between 100 & 120 feet of water. We had all our rods set and rode for a while before we took our first fish. It was a small King on a 10 color core with a Tangerine Super Slim. We took a couple more smaller Kings on our out downs on regular size DW Green Skinny Jeans.  Our first mature King took a regular Dreamweaver EVM spoon on a 200 copper. While we were fighting it our chute rigger with an 11″ White Crush Glow Paddle/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly down 120 fired . It was the big King pictured left. As soon as we landed the King on the 200 copper we hit another nice King on a high wire diver out 175 with a 10″ Net Minder Showtime Spin Doctor/Blue Fairways DW meat rig. We got both fish. We took another King on our turn back south on a high wire diver out 225 with a 10″ White Crush Green Scale Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine Dreamweaver meat rig. The action slowed on our south troll. We hit one more mature King on a 10 color core with the Tangerine Super Slim. It screamed out a lot of line but got off when it turned and ran back towards the boat. There are a lot of small kings up north. We threw three back that looked like they would survive but two of them floated up to the surface. We took fish on 5 & 10 color cores and 175, 200, 250 & 300 coppers. We use Dreamweaver Premium Strips in all our meat rigs a run Morgan’s Tackle Copper on all our copper rods.