Ludington Area Fishing Reports

We fished off the Bank today north of Ludington. The water was warm down to 95 feet. We hit our first fish on a 350 copper with a 10″ Chrome Killer Spin Doctor/Green Gasoline Dreamweaver Meat Rig. By the way it made the drag sing it was mature King. It got away. It wasn’t too long before another King hit our high wire diver out 320 with a 10″ White Slick Spin Doctor/Green Gasoline DW Meat Rig. It got off too. We took our first King on a 10″White Crush Black Dot Spin Doctor/Moo Moo Big Water Tackle Meat Rig on a 450 copper. Our King bites dried up and our next action came from Lake Trout. We caught 2 small ones that we threw back, landed 2 keepers and lost 2 more before we hit our last King. It took a 10″ Margareta Spin Doctor/Green Mile Big Water Meat Rig, pictured right, out 220 on a low wire diver. We hit 1 more trout when we were pulling lines. It shook off when it hit the surface and swam away. We use Dreamweaver Premium Strips in all our meat rigs and Morgan’s Tackle copper on all our copper rods.

Very tough day of fishing today. We started out on the Bank north of Ludington in 110 feet of water (fow). The water was warm but it was 49 degrees 95 feet down. We were there early and were hoping to get some King Salmon action. We marked some fish – not a lot but enough so that we were encouraged by what we saw. We trolled to the middle of the 04’s without a bite. I was in contact with three other charter boats fishing the same area and only one of them had a bite. We turned off the Bank and headed west on the same track we took yesterday. We missed a fish on a tin can dodger and a Dreamweaver Yellow Red Dot WhirlyGig down 205 feet in about 300 fow. We went out to 550 fow fishing 16 rods and didn’t have another bite until we turned back south. We finally got our first and only fish of the trip, the beautiful Steelhead pictured above left. It came on a 350 copper with a glow spoon. We had one other bite on a 225 copper and that was it. To say we were disappointed would be a understatement. We had a good crew and they took the lack of action well. They could see we were putting some effort into trying to make it happen.  We marked fish most of the morning but they take what we offered today. We will be fishing again Saturday morning. We use Morgan’s Tackle copper on all our copper rods.