Ludington Area Fishing Reports

After experiencing two slow morning in a row up north, we headed southwest this morning to try our luck out where we fished last night. We set up in 190 feet of water (fow) and trolled west. The morning started out a little slow, but the action picked up when we got outside side 250 fow. All our bites but 2 came on spoons. We took a King and a big Coho 65 down on an 11″ White Crush Dreamweaver Paddle/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly on the chute rigger. The big Laker pictured below came on a mag size Fuzzy Bear Yellow Tail spoon on a 250 copper. A regular size Yellow Tail out 130 on a high wire diver took 4 Steelhead and a mature King. We weren’t having much action on our riggers until we put a pair of Yeck Afro Glows on an out down at 45 feet. They went 3 times in a half hour. A DW Beefeater 100 out on a low wire dive took several shots. We took hits on 5, 7 &  10 color cores and 150, 200, 250, & 300 coppers.

We fished up north this morning and the bite was slow. It was light before we hit our first fish. It took a 10″ Kevin’s Girlfriend Spin Doctor/Green Mile Big Water Rig on an out down set at 45 feet. We had 3 of those rigs out and they all took a hit. Our second biggest King of the morning, 23.50 lbs., came on that rig on a 200 copper. Our biggest King, 25.60 lbs. came on a Natural Glow Dreamweaver Captains Choice Cut Plug on a 7 color core. We pretty much worked a mile either side of the Point trying to catch some big ones, but the bites were few and far between.

We decided to run our afternoon trip southwest of Ludington today. We set up in 190 feet of water(fow) and trolled northwest. We had good action with all of our hits coming in the top 60 feet. A regular size Dreamweaver Beefeater out 80 on a low wire was our best rod. A Yeck Fireball out 110 on a high wire was good too. A regular size Fuzzy Bear Yellow Tail on a 10 color was our best core.