Ludington Area Fishing Reports

We figured the water would be warm after the south blow yesterday, and we were right. We set up south of the bath house north of Ludington off the bank. Surface temp was 62.3 and it was 58 down 120 feet on our Fish Hawk. The picture on our graph didn’t look real good but we set up and trolled north. By the time we got our rods set the water had cooled to 54.8 at 80 feet and we started marking fish and bait. First fish came on our starboard out down set at 90 with a DW Soda spoon stacked with a Super Slim Soda 15 feet above the main bait. It was a Steelhead that took the stack. Our port high wire diver out 280 took 2 mature Kings on an 8″ Chrome White Crush Green Dot Flip Fin Paddle/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly, pictured below. The fin was not deployed. That same set up took 2 more mature Kings on a 375 copper and we had a hit on our starboard out down set at 100 with that rig on it too. The fin was deployed on the copper and out down. A 7.5 color core went twice with an orange glow spoon. We missed a fish on the port low wire diver out 200 with a 10″ Green Dot White Crush Spin Doctor/A Bomb Dreamweaver Meat Rig. We took a mature King on the starboard low wire diver out 230 with a 10″ Kevin’s Girlfriend Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine DW Meat Rig. Later in the trip we dropped it back to 270 and had a fish hit and run and didn’t hook up. Our port out down set at 100 took a Coho on a SS Half Green Jeans.  We took a fish on a mag black glow spoon on that same rigger down 120 and took a small King on a SS Half Green Jeans free sliding above it. We tried several different 11″ Paddles on the chute rigger without a bite. Finally, with less than a half hour left to fish we put an 11″ custom UV Dreamweaver Paddle/Blue Bubble Action Fly down 140 and it took our last King. It felt real good hitting some mature Kings today. We use Margan’s Tackle copper and wire, Dreamweaver Ninja Boards, Dreamweaver Deeper Divers and Dreamweaver Premium Strips in our meat rigs.

We fished north of Ludington setting up in 160 feet of water. Surface temp was 64 degrees. It was 56 down 80 feet on our Fish Hawk. The screen was clean on our graph. We put it on a northeast troll. We started marking bait and fish as we got a little further north. Our first fish took a Yeck Wart Frog stacked 15 feet above an SS Green Hulk on our port out down set at 100. It was a smaller size King. Our 7.5 color core with a Yeck Fireball took off with a big fish. We boated the fish which was a mature King. The down temp kept dropping the further north we trolled. By the time we reached the Point it was 46 down 80 feet. We took a 5 lb. Jack King on a SS Soda stacked 30 feet above a mag Fuzzy Bear Soda down 130 on our starboard out down. We took another King on it a little later in the trip. Our biggest King came on a high wire diver out 330 with a 10″ White Crush Green Scale Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine DW Meat Rig. We missed one on a low wire diver out 230 with a 10″ Kevin’s Girlfriend Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine DW Meat Rig. A fish slammed our port low wire diver out 140 with an 8″ Black Slick Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine DW meat rig but didn’t hook up. Our 7.5 color core with the Fireball went again. This time it was a nice Steelhead. While we were fighting the Steelhead a 350 copper with a Fireball went, 1st mate Abe put that one out. It took about a 10 lb. King. A storm was fast approaching from the west, so we pulled lines early. A Lake Trout was riding on our chute rigger down 140 with an 11″White Slick Paddle/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly. We got a little wet, but it was worth it. We use Morgan’s Tackle copper and wire and pull our lead cores and coppers with Dreamweaver Ninja Boards. We use Dreamweaver Premium Strips in all our meat rigs.