Ludington Area Fishing Reports

The fishing has been good the last couple days up north. Boats were catching fish in tight, 50 to 70 ft., and outside, 140 to 200, and all depths in between. Plugs on 10 color cores and 150, 200, & 250 coppers have been good early and later in the morning we have been switching over to spoons and meat rigs on our coppers. Our 2 top plugs have been the Natural Glow and Lucky Charm Dreamweaver Cut Plugs. We have been starting out with a pair of Fuzzy Bear Yellow Tail’s and a pair of DW Beefeaters on the out downs and an 11″ White Crush Paddle/Pickled Sunshine Actin Fly on the chute rigger. Our out downs this morning wee set at 70 & 80 ft. and the chute was at 90 ft. Our wire divers were no big deal today. We took a couple Kings on 10″ Margareta Spin Doctors/Green Mile Big Water Meat Rigs on our low wires set 135 & 155 back later in the morning.  Our high wires with 10″ Kevin’s Girlfriend Spin Doctors /Green Mile & Froggie Big Water Meat Rigs out 220 & 230 each took a fish early. A 350 copper with a 10″ Chrome Mountain Dew Spin Doctor/Moo Moo Big Water Rig took 2 big Kings out in 180 feet of water. We use Erie Dearie Meat on all our meat rigs.

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.