Ludington Area Fishing Reports

Fished southwest of Ludington today setting up in 230 feet of water. Only had a few rods in the water when a high Slide Diver out 125 with a Super Slim Rasta Goose started pounding. The fish was gone before we could get to it. Our first 6 bites were on divers. I have been running spoons on all my divers lately but we’ve heard of some boats running  Spin Doctors & flys on their divers and having good results. We put a 10″ White Slick Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly on one low wire and a 10″ Kevin’s Girlfriend/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly on the other. We took 2 fish on the White Slick out 110 and 1 on the Kevin’s Girlfriend out 135 and another on it out 155. Our other high Slide diver out 110 with a Bloody Nose took a fish. We were marking fish deep so we pulled the spoons off our out downs and put 10″ Gold Spin Doctors/White Pink Dot Spin-N-Glos on both of them. One was set at 150 and the other 185. They both took fish. We took fish on 3, 5, 7.5 & 9 color cores. A SS Rasta Goose was real good on a 5 color core. Our only silver fish was a 5 lb. King that came on our low wire out 110 with the White Slick/Pickle.

 

We fished southwest of Ludington today setting up in 250 feet of water on a 240 troll. Took a nice Steelhead early on a 2 color core with a Yeck Fireball. Took a small Coho on it later in the morning. It was a little lumpy out there this morning. The waves were from the southwest. Our autopilot was holding and we trolled out to 510 feet of water before turning back north on a 60 course. The action was never hot and heavy but it was steady on both the out and in trolls. We missed a Steelhead and a Lake Trout on a low Slide Diver on a DW Super Bread out 85 with a 40 foot lead . We took a Laker on a high Slide Diver out 125 on a Super Slim Rasta Goose. The Rasta Goose was good for us on a 5 color core too. Our chute rigger down 75 with a mag Dreamweaver UV Beefeater stacked with a DW Green Skinny Jeans took 3 Lakers, 2 on the main bait and 1 on the stacker. We didn’t have any bites on our out downs with spoons so we put Trout rigs on them and sent them down deep. One was set at 150 and the other at 185. They both had 10″ Gold Spin Doctors/White Pink Dot Spin-N-Glos. The one at 185 went 3 times and the one down 150 went twice. We took fish on 2, 3, 5, & 9 color cores.