Ludington Area Fishing Reports

We ran southwest of Ludington today and shut down when the surface temp started to drop. It was 57 degrees where we set up in the 39’s west. We hit a Steelhead right away on a 3 color core with a Super Slim Double orange Pearl spoon. The surface temp started to drop rapidly in the 40’s west. We were in the 52’s south. A Slide Diver out 90 with a 35 ft. lead took a King on a SS Super Bread spoon. We were going to turn when the temp was 43 degrees, but we started hitting fish in that colder water. Some of the boats fishing in the same general area were taking fish in the warmer water, 54 to 47, but our best action came in the colder, 41 to 43, degree water. We hit fish on 2, 3, 5, & 7.5 color cores. Our Slide Divers out 80 & 90 were good. We only had 1 rigger bite. A 13.5 lb. Steelhead took a mag size Hello Darlan Fuzzy Bear spoon stacked 12 ft. above a Tin Can Dodger 100 down on the chute rigger. It was 38 degrees down there. We didn’t run any meat today and had no bites on our low mono divers. Most of our bites were on Super Slim Spoons with the Double Orange Pearl and the Steelie Stomper being the best.  We worked between the 40’s to the 43’s west and the 53’s to 50’s south. We ended up with 3 Lakers, 4 Kings, and 4 Steelhead for a total of 11 fish. I took a group picture of our catch with my camera, but didn’t have the memory card in.

No charter today so I took the opportunity to fish with Capt. Shane and his two sons, Will and Landon, on the Dreamweaver. He wanted to make sure the boys got into some fish so we headed out to the temperature break northwest of Ludington. We set up north of the Point in 56 degree water and trolled wnw. We could see some fog in the distance and figured the big break was there, it was. The surface temp dropped from 56 degrees to 38.8 degrees in very short order . Our first bite was on a rigger set at 26 feet. After that all the action was on our Slide Divers and 1, 2, 3, & 5, color cores. We caught a mixed bag of Steelhead, Kings, & Lake Trout. All our fish came on Super Slim spoons. Our best were a Golden Orange Crush Icicle on a Slide diver with a 30′ lead out 90, and a Steelie Stomper out 85 with the same 30′ lead. We took several fish on a Double Orange Pearl on  3 & 5 color cores. Our best action was in the 48 to 43 degree water. When we finally called it quits were in 560 feet of water. The boys arms were sore but they were all smiles.