Ludington Area Fishing Reports

Fishing was tough today. We headed southwest out of Ludington harbor and set up in 70 feet of water (fow) in the low 55’s and put it on a 240 troll. Went out to 150 fow without a bite. Trolled back in to 80 fow still no bites. We were marking a few fish on the bottom in 100 fow so we decided to try for some Lake Trout. As we switching over our rods for trout fishing a small King hit a Super Slim SOG spoon 110 ft. out on a Slide Diver. We boated it and the skunk was out! We put down our trout gear and bounced bottom trying to get some more fish. We boated 6 Lakers, but two of them were below the 20″ size limit and had to be returned to the lake to grow another couple of inches.  We took one more small king on a 3 color core with a Super Slim Red Devil. We are hoping for the wind to blow from the south so the water will warm up and we can start catching some big Kings again.

After our good day fishing on Wednesday we went right back to the same area and put out the same spread that worked for us then. We did not get the same results. The water had warmed a few degrees, but conditions looked the same. We had a tough day with seven bites and four fish. Not really hearing of anything better we went back to the 01’s on Friday and tried it again. We set up in 140 feet of water (fow) in the 01’s and took it north. We marked loads of bait and some fish as well. Our first bite was on a 300 copper with a 10″ White Slick Spin Doctor/UV Green Big Water meat Rig. It was a nice king. A low wire diver out 130 with a 10″ White Crush Spin Doctor/Froggie Big Water rig took the next King. A heavy fog  set in and that made it tough to stay in the 140 to 150 foot range because several boats were working in that area. We decided to work on the outside of the pack fishing between 180 and 250 fow the rest of the morning . We were getting lots of hits, but they weren’t hooking up well. One of our out downs took a hit at 85 feet down on a glow spoon. It was about a 6 lb. Coho. That explained why we weren’t getting the good hook ups. They were Coho bites. We ended up taking 3 more of them, a couple more Kings and a Lake Trout. We don’t have another scheduled until next Tuesday.