We have been fishing out deep the last few days. It was a little rough out there today, but our crew held up and were rewarded with a good catch. We fished between 180 and 420 feet of water (fow) south west of Ludington. Todays catch was mostly Coho salmon and Steelhead with a big Lake Trout thrown in. We’ve caught two big Lakers the last two days. The one pictured right hit a regular size Fuzzy Bear Modified Blue Dolphin 60 down on our chute rigger.
The majority of our fish are hitting our cores, coppers and divers. We have been running 1 seven, 2 eight & 2 ten color cores and 2 150 and 2 200 coppers. We’ve been running a high & low wire diver on each side. Our riggers have been at 40 and 50 on the out downs and 60 on the chute. We’ve had a Yeck Fireball out 150 ft. on one high and a regular Dreamweaver Beefeater out 130 on the other. We have 10″ Spin Doctors and Big Water Meat Rigs on our low wires. Today the 10″ Glow Blade Spin Doctor/Blue UV Big Water Meat Rig out 95 took a couple nice fish. Last night on our afternoon trip we took a 23.45 lb. King (pictured below left) on a 8″ UV Lizard Spin Doctor/Green UV Big Water Rig on a 200 copper . We had another big King hit the same rig , but that one got away.
A regular Fuzzy Bear Hot Rod spoon on a 10 color core has been good and so has a regular DW Beefeater. Our best 150 copper bait has been a regular Fuzzy Bear Yellowtail spoon and a mag size Fuzzy Bear NBK has been good on a 200 copper. The action has been good out there, but the fish can be hard to get in the boat. Those Coho have been wild. I’ve heard reports of some big Kings being caught between 60 and 120 fow between the harbor and the project. The bite has been early and doesn’t last long.
Ludington Area Fishing Reports
7-31-13 Fishing Report
Fished a double yesterday. We fished southwest of Ludington both trips. We started out in 120 feet of water (fow) and headed out on a 240 troll. We hit 4 mature Kings at first light and then just picked the rest of the morning. We fished out to the 37’s then turned back in and trolled in to the 35’s. We spent most of our morning fishing between those numbers and had a good catch. Not hearing of anything better we headed back out to the same area for our afternoon trip. The action had definitely slowed. We didn’t have a bite for the first 2 hours of the trip. We finally got some action out in the 39’s and boated 3 fish. We went back to basically the same area this morning but started out deeper, 150 feet and trolled southwest. We hit a few fish at first light on 10″ Spin Doctors and Big Water Meat Rigs. Our best was a 10″ Margarita Spin Doctor/Green UV Big Water Meat Rig with Erie Dearie Meat on a high wire diver out 120 ft. Our out downs were set at 50 and 40 feet with a pair of glow spoons on one and a pair of regular size Dreamweaver Beefeaters on the other. They both took several fish. Another hot rod was a 200 copper with a Super Slim Riverside spoon. We trolled all the way out to 430 fow and had action all the way. We have doubles the next 2 days so I probably won’t have another report up until Saturday.
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