Ludington Area Fishing Reports

We had all our lines set this morning up north and waited 35 minutes before we got our first bite. It was on the chute rigger and we lost it. After not hitting a fish on the Bank we turned out on a northwest troll. Our second bite came on an out down set at 67 ft. with a magnum Fuzzy Bear Modified Green Dolphin. It was a King and we landed that one. We had a pair of mag Fuzzy Bear Ally Cats on the other out down and that was the next rod to go. To our surprise it had 2 fish on it, a small king on the free slider and a Lake trout on the bottom bait. We turned back in when we hit 300 feet of water (fow) . It was slow going most of the morning. None of our hot rigs were going so we had to dig a little deeper into the program box. We took our biggest king on a 300 copper with a 10″ Black Slick Spin Doctor/Black UV Big Water Meat Rig. Magnum spoons were good for us today. Besides our early bites on our out downs, we lost a Steelhead on a mag Fuzzy Bear Blue Educator 67 down and took a King on it. We took another King on a mag Fuzzy Bear Flea For All on a 200 copper. We took 4 Lake Trout including the big one pictured left fishing near bottom with a Tin Can Dodger/Yellow Red Dot Spin-N-Glow. We only took 1 fish on a wire diver. It was a low wire out 165 with a 10″ Net Minder Showtime Spin Doctor/Blue Ice Big Water Rig. We had a tug on a high wire out 200 with a 8″ Chrome Kevorkian Spin Doctor/Yellow Gasoline Dreamweaver Meat Rig but it didn’t hook up. We use Dreamweaver Premium Strips in all our meat rigs and Morgan’s Tackle copper on all our copper rods.

Slow start for us up north this morning. We had all our rods set before we had our first bite. It came on a 300 copper with a 10″ Chrome Kevorkian Spin Doctor/Green UV Big Water Meat Rig. A low wire diver out 120 with a 10″ Green Holo Slick Spin Doctor/Green Gasoline Dreamweaver Meat Rig took our second fish. They were both Kings. Then we just picked away at them. We took 4 Lake trout on our chute rigger with a Tin Can Dodger/Yellow Red Dot Spin-N-Glow near the bottom. We hit a couple more kings on the Bank before we put it on a 250 troll and worked out to deeper water. We didn’t find any particular band of water that seemed to hold more fish. We would just get a bite every now and then. We took Kings on a 250 copper with a 8″ No See Um Purple Holo Spin Doctor/4th Of July Big Water Meat Rig, a 300 copper with the Chrome Kevorkian/ Green UV Big Water Rig, and a 250 with a 8″ Kevin’s Girlfriend Spin Doctor/Green Mirage Dreamweaver Meat Rig. We took a Steelhead on a 175 copper with a number 3 Chrome Redhead J-Plug. Our hot set up today was the low wire diver with the 10″ White Green Holo Slick Spin Doctor/Green Gasoline DW Meat Rig. It went 4 times and took the 33 inch Master Angler Steelhead pictured left. It fought like a big King. We were all surprised when it came to the net and we saw it was a Steelie. We took it to Captain Chucks and registered it for a Michigan Master Angler Award when we got back to shore. Only 1 spoon bite. A King took a Mag Fuzzy Bear Blue Educator spoon 70 down on an out down. We use Dreamweaver Premium Strips in all our meat rigs and Morgan’s Tackle copper on all our copper rods.