Ludington Area Fishing Reports

Very slow fishing this morning. The Seagull surface temp map showed a bubble of warm water straight out and a little north of Ludington. We really wanted to fish up north but, on the way up there we hit cold water, so we shut down in 120 feet of water and trolled west-southwest. All our rods were set when a Trout took an 11″ White Crush Paddle/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly 80 down on the chute rigger. We were happy to get a fish in the boat.  We went quite a while before a fish hit an orange glow spoon on a 7.5 color core. It got into one of our other boards and got away. Our second fish was a big Lake Trout. It hit an 10″ UV Gold Spin Doctor/Pink and White Spin-N-Glo on an out down set just off the bottom. We took it up to Capt. Chucks after the trip and it weighed 19 lbs.  on their scale. We missed a fish on that same set up later in the morning. Our last fish, a Lake Trout, came on a 7.5 color core with a Yeck Fireball. Five bites three fish today. Our next scheduled trip Thursday the 20th. We use Morgan’s Tackle copper and wire and pull our lead cores and coppers with Dreamweaver Ninja Boards.

We took 4 veterans out today for the Fish On for Freedom event. It had been a few days since we fished and with the high winds the last few days we were uncertain witch way to go. We opted to go north to familiar territory.  We set up off the bank. Surface temp was 57 and it was 54 down 60 feet on our Fish Hawk. We marked some fish but went a long time without a bite. Not sure if was because of the 6:00 a.m. start or they just didn’t like what we were trying to feed them. The other boats we were communicating with were having a tough time getting bites too. We peeled off the bank and trolled west to deeper water. We took 3 Lake Trout, all 150 feet plus deep. First one came on the chute rigger with an 11″ White Crush DW Paddle/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly. The next one came on a 10″ Lake Trout Candy Spin Doctor/Chrome Yellow Spin-N-Glo. The last one took an 11″ DW Chrome Two Face Paddle/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly. We took a Steelhead on a 175 copper with a Super Slim NBK and we took a small King on a SS Orange Slice on a 10 color core. Five bites and five fish. Thank you to the sponsors and volunteers that made this event possible. We use Morgan’s Tackle copper and wire and pull our lead cores and coppers with Dreamweaver Ninja Boards.