Ludington Area Fishing Reports

Boat traffic was heavy again today up north. We were setting our second rod when the chute rigger down 70 with an 11″ White Paddle/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly started bouncing with a good size King on it. We boated it and hit one on an out down set at 50 ft. with a Lucky Charms Captain’s Choice Cut Plug. The other out down fired with a Pearl Zebra Captain’s Choice Cut Plug and so did a 10 color core with a Wonder Bread Captains Choice Cut Plug. We took another King on a high wire diver out 150 with a 10″ White Slick Spin Doctor/Blue Fairways Strong Fly. That combo went two more times later in the morning out 270 on a high wire. After that flurry the action slowed considerably. We turned back south and only had one bite, a small Coho, on a 10 color core with a spoon. We turned and put it on a northwest troll heading for deeper water. We took a three Steelhead out there on spoons. Two came on a Dreamweaver SOG spoon on an out down 65 down and later 75 down. The other one took a Bloody Nose on a 10 color core. Our biggest King came on a 300 copper with a 10″ Chrome Killer Spin Doctor/Green Death Big Water Meat Rig.  We lost a King on a low wire diver out 170 with a 10″ Black Slick Spin Doctor/UV On Ice Big Water Rig and took one on a 300 copper with an 8″ Chrome Kevorkian Spin Doctor/Yellow Gasoline Dreamweaver Meat Rig. We use Dreamweaver Premium Strips in all our meat rigs and Morgan’s Tackle copper on all our copper rods.

We fished north today along with more boats than I’ve seen all season. Boat traffic was heavy. We hit five fish early  on a north troll and boated four of them. We took five more after we turned back south. It went dead after that on the inside so we turned out to deeper water and hit a few more out there. A Blue Splatter Back Captain’s Choice Cut Plug took fish on a 250 copper, a 350 copper and 70 down on an out down. A 10″ White Slick Spin Doctor/Blue Fairways Strong Fly went three times 270 out on a high wire diver and so did a 11″ Black Crush Paddle/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly out 150 on a low wire diver. We only had a couple meat bites. We took a King on a 350 copper with a 10″ Chrome Kevorkian Crush UV/UV On Ice Big Water Meat Rig and missed a fish on a low wire diver out 170 with a 10″ Black Slick Spin Doctor/UV On Ice Big Water Rig. We broke off a big fish on a 10″ Black Crush Light Green Scale Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly down 70 on an out down when it came up into our low wire. Our biggest King today, pictured above left, came on a Blue Dolphin Captain’s Choice Cut Plug on a 300 copper. We use Dreamweaver Premium Strips in all our meat rigs and Morgan’s Tackle copper on all our copper rods.