Ludington Area Fishing Reports

The weatherman was half right today. Predictions of 4 to 5 ft. waves were wrong, but we did get thunderstorms. We had to cut our trip short due to lighting in the air. The early bite was good up north. We were fishing between 140 & 100 feet of water (fow). Our hot rig today was a pair of Fuzzy Bear Yellow Tail spoons 75 down on an out down. We had mag size for the main and a regular sliding above it. We ended up putting the same combo on our other out down at 85 ft. and that took a couple bites too. We had our high wires set at 200 and 155 with 10″ Kevin’s Girlfriend Spin Doctors and Froggie and Green Mile Big Water Meat Rigs. We only had 1 low wire bite and that came on a 10″ Black Crush Spin Doctor/Froggie Big Water Rig out 110 ft. A mag size DW Beefeater spoon on a 300 copper took our last fish before the lightning chased us off the Lake. We use Erie Dearie Meat on all our meat rigs.

The wind was blowing pretty hard this morning form the ssw.  Our crew wanted to go so we headed north setting up just off the bank. The water had warmed some from yesterday so we didn’t run any 5 or 8 color cores. We put plugs on a 10 color core, 150 & 200 coppers with Dreamweaver Lucky Charms an Green Splatter Back Cut Plugs. They all went during the morning bite. We missed a nice fish 70 down on an out down with a pair of DW Beefeater spoons and took a King 50 down on another Green Splatter Back cut plug. Those were our only 2 rigger bites all day. Our wire divers took most of our bites. Once again it was the 10″ Kevin’s Girlfriend Spin Doctor with Froggie and Green Mile Big Water Meat Rigs on our high wires coming through for us. We had one out 155 ft. and the other out 115 ft. We took our biggest fish of the season today a 26.69 pounder on one of the high wires.We use Erie Dearie Meat on all our meat rigs.