Ludington Area Fishing Reports

We got off to a good start this morning up north. Our wire divers were hot and we got a couple plug bites. A high wire out 145 with a 10″ Mountain Dew Slick Spin Doctor/4th of July Big Water Meat Rig went 3 times. A 10″ White Crush Green Scale Spin Doctor/ Action Fly Meat Rig out 100 went twice on a low wire and a 10″ White Slick Green Holo Spin Doctor/ Action Fly Meat Rig went once. A Green Ladder Back Captain’s Choice Cut Plug took a big King down 40 on an out down. Our only copper bite during the early flurry was a number 3 Silver Horde Moldy Wonder Bread on a 175 copper.  When the dust settled we had 6 mature Kings in the box. We made a turn and went on a south troll. We went a little over 3 miles and only took 1 fish. It was a good size Lake Trout on the chute rigger with a Tin Can Dodger/Yellow Red Dot Spin-N-Glow. We couldn’t take the lack action on the south troll any longer so we turned  out on a 250 troll. We hit 3 fish in very short order. We lost a big fish on a mag size Fuzzy Bear Blue Educator down 65 on an out down , landed a King on a high wire diver out 165 with a 10″ Yellow Sparkler Spin Doctor/UV On Ice Big Water Rig and landed a Trout on our Tin Can on the chute rigger. We took 2 king on our 300 coppers. One had a 10″ Chrome Kevorkian Spin Doctor/Green UV Big Water Rig and the other was on a 8″ Chrome Kevorkian Yellow Gasoline DW rig. We  took another King on a 250 copper with a 10″ Yellow Sparkler Spin Doctor/UV On Ice Big Water Rig. We use Dreamweaver Premium Strips in all our meat rigs a Morgan’s Tackle copper on all our copper rods.

We got off to a slow start again this morning up north. We were all “plugged up”. We had them on 3 cores, 2 coppers and one out down and we never had a plug bite. Our wire divers went several times early but we had trouble getting them to stick. Our high wire diver out 167 with a 10″ Blue Bubble/ Glow Blue Bubble Action Fly Meat Rig went 4 or 5 times and we never landed a fish on it . A low wire diver out 145 with a 10″ White Crush Green Scale Spin Doctor/ Custom Dreamweaver Meat Rig took 2 Kings for us. We pulled all our plugs except for a number 3 Moldy Wonder Bread Silver Horde on a 175 copper and replaced  them with Spin Doctors and meat rigs. The 175 copper with the number 3 plug has went at least twice each day the past few days but didn’t go today. We took 3 Lakers on a Tin Can Dodger/Yellow Red Dot Spin-N-Glow off our chute rigger. A high wire diver with a 10″ Mountain Dew Spin Doctor/4th of July Big Water Meat Rig went twice, once at 145 and again at 185. Our only copper bites came on a 300 with a 10″ Chrome Kevorkian Spin Doctor/Green UV Big Water Rig. We took 2 Kings on it. The biggest is pictured  left. We took a big Steelhead on a regular size Fuzzy Bear Green Dolphin free sliding above a magnum Fuzzy Green Dolphin set at 65 feet on an out down. Our last fish came on a 10″ Yellow Sparkler Spin Doctor/Yellow Gasoline DW Meat Rig out 200 on a high wire diver.  We fished the Bank early and then moved out to deeper water. We use Dreamweaver Premium Strips in all our meat rigs and Morgan’s Tackle copper on all our copper rods.