Ludington Area Fishing Reports

No early bite this morning. We were ready for cold water and it was warm. 68 degrees down 60 feet on our Fish Hawk. We rode over 2 miles after we set up without a bite. It was hard to head for deep water because the area we set up in has been so good. We finally hit a fish on our starboard 225 copper with a Mag Warrior Hot Blueberry Muffin Spoon. It got away. We took our first King on our starboard out down set at 70 with a pair of SS Sodas. Our port out down went twice, once down 70 and once down 80 with an 8″ White Crush Foil Back Paddle/Easy Custom Killer Mirage Fly. Starboard 250 copper went once with an 8″ Custom Flip Fin Paddle/Green Crinkle Fly. Port 300 went once with an 8″ White Charlie Special Flip Fin Paddle/Purple Mirage Action Fly. Our chute rigger went once down 100 with an 11″ White Fish Scale DW Paddle/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly. Our last fish came on the chute rigger down 110 with an 11″ Black Slick DW Paddle/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly. Port high wire Ninja Diver out 200 went once with an 8″ White Slick Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly. Starboard high Ninja Diver went once out 300 with an 8″ White Slick Flip Fin Paddle/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly. Port low wire out 120 went once with a 10″ White Crush Green Scale Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine DW Meat Rig. It went again when it was going out. Starboard low wire out 135 went twice with a 10″ White Slick Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine DW Meat Rig. We covered a lot of water and never did find an area that held a concenation of fish. We had a crew of Veterans today that enjoyed their morning on the Lake.

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We had a strong early bite. We didn’t have all our rods set when our board rods started going. Starboard 3 color went twice early with a Mini Natural Glow DW Plug and took a Steelhead later. Starboard 5 color went once with a Mini Pink Dot DW Plug. Port 5 color went twice with the same plug. Port 7.5 went twice with a Mini Pearl Zebra DW Plug. Starboard 7.5 went once with a Mini Glow Black Ladderback DW Plug. Both 10 colors went once with Mini Lucky Charms DW Plugs. Port 10 color went once later with a Shelly Snack Spoon. Starboard 225 copper went once with a Mag Warrior Hot Blueberry Muffin Spoon. Port 200 went once with a Standard Warrior Hot Blueberry Muffin Spoon and once later with a DW UV Green Jeans Spoon. Starboard high Ninja Diver out 185 went 3 times with an 8″ White Slick Flip Fin Paddle/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly. Port high Ninja Diver went twice out 150 and once out 160 with an 8″ White Slick Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly. Starboard low wire out 85 went twice with a 10″ White Slick Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine DW Meat Rig. Starboard out down went once down 55 with a pair of SS Sodas. We took 2 Kings at the same time on that combo. While we were fighting the 2 Kings, we put a 5″ Natural Glow DW Plug Down 45 on that out down and it went twice. Port out down set at 45 went once with a Mini Salmon Slayer Plug . Later we put an 8″ White Crush Foil Back Paddle/Easy’s Custom Killer Mirage Fly Down 60 stacked with an SS UV Green Jeans. A Coho took the stack. Our chute rigger down 70 went once early with an 11″ DW White Fish Scale Paddle/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly and once down 100 with an 11″ Charlie Special DW Paddle/Sweet Pea Fly. Our crew had a fun trip and did good on the rods.

We use and recommend Nova Tackle Deep Water Trolling Rods, Dreamweaver Ninja Boards, Divers, & Premium Meat Strips, and Magnum MetalZ Downriggers & Copper.