Tough fishing today. The water up north looked too cold so we headed southwest out of Ludington harbor this morning. We stopped in 100 fow in the 55’s and started trolling west southwest. The surface temp was 51 degrees. It didn’t take too long for us to take our first fish. It was a King that hit a low wire diver out 85′ with a 10″ White Crush Spin Doctor/Froggie Big Water Meat Rig. Another King hit a 5 color core with a Super Slim Beefeater Spoon on it, but it got tangled our 200 copper and got away. The surface temperature started dropping and when we hit 130 fow it dropped to 41 degrees. We talked to a few other boats that were out deeper fishing on the other side of the cold water and they weren’t having any better action than we were so we opted to stay on the inside of the break and fish for Kings. It was slow going. We worked in and out between the 55’s & 54’s with no bites. The boats out deep on the outside were staring to pick up a few fish so we decided to make one more out troll to the edge of the cold water and if we didn’t hit any more fish we were going to pull lines and head west. Just before we hit the cold water we took a double. One on a high wire diver out 150 with a 10″ White Crush Spin Doctor/Moo Moo Big Water Meat Rig and one on a 200 copper with a Yeck Lighting Spoon. The King that took the meat rig weighed 20 lbs. and is pictured right. That clinched it for us. We were staying put and fishing the inside of the break for Kings. We fished two more hours and only took one more fish. That came on the chute rigger down 65 ft. with a 10″ Margareta Spin Doctor /Leuprocohn Big Water Rig. Hoping for better action tomorrow.
Ludington Area Fishing Reports
6-8-13 Fishing Report
Bites were hard to come by today. We fished the same area as yesterday. We started at 02:00 in 120 fow and trolled north. We had a good picture on our graph with several marks and some bait. We didn’t have all our rods set when a high wire diver out 180 went with a 10″ White Crush Spin Doctor/Moo Moo Big Water Meat Rig. Took a decent King on that setup. The low wire with a 10″ Black Spin Doctor/Froggie Big Water Rig went next but we didn’t get that fish. A 200 copper with an 8″ UV Lizard Spin Doctor/UV on Ice Big Water Meat Rig took a King and we missed another King and a 10″ Atomic Killer Spin Doctor/Yellow Kermit Dreamweaver Meat Rig out 200 on a high wire. So far so good, right? We turned in the o5’s and trolled back south in 120 to 130 fow. Then came a looong dry spell. After a while we took a Lake Trout on a 5 color core with a Dreamweaver SS Magic Man spoon. We turned out in the 02’s and took the King pictured below on a 400 copper with a 10″ Dark Green White Crush Spin Doctor/Green Mile Big Water Rig. We missed another fish on a high wire and that was it. There are fish out there but they didn’t cooperate very well today.
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