Ludington Area Fishing Reports

We fished north of Ludington this morning. No boat traffic. There was a strong north wind, and it was hard to get our speed right on the north troll. We were off the bank and our graph was clean. The surface temp was 55.3 degrees, and it was 47.6 at 50 feet on our Fish Hawk. First fish was a small King that hit on our port out down set a 75 with a pair of SS Half Green Jeans. It took the rubber band stack 15 ft. above the main bait. Our next bite was a mature King on the chute rigger down 90ft. with an 11″ White Slick Paddle/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly. We took a Lake Trout on the same rig out in deeper water 180 feet down. Port high wire diver out 150 with an 8″ Green Bam Flip Fin Paddle/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly took a hit. Starboard high wire diver out 165 with an 8″ Chrome Green Dot Flip Fin Paddle/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly took a small King. We took today’s biggest King on our port 250 copper with a Super Slim Soda spoon. We took a smaller King on a 300 copper with an SS Soda too. Our starboard 300 copper took a smaller King on a SS Half Blue Jeans and our starboard 250 copper took a King on a SS Shelly Snack. We lost a fish on a 6 color core with a SS Half Wonder Bread.

Our last big King hit an 8″ White Paddle/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly. All our Flip Fin Paddles had the fin deployed. The surface temp stayed the same throughout the trip but when we pulled lines our down temp at 50 feet had dropped to 43 degrees. There are more pictures from today’s trip on Free Style Charters Facebook page. We use Morgan’s tackle copper and wire, and pull our lead cores and coppers with Dreamweaver Ninja Boards.

There was a light rain when we set up off the bank north of Ludington this morning. There were a decent number of marks on our graph, but they weren’t biting right away. We had everything set except our deepest coppers when we hit a fish on our port low wire diver out 125 with an 8″ Black White Crush Green Dot Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly. It hit and was gone. That diver went one more time and we didn’t get that one either. Those were our only two diver bites. Our port rigger down 85 first and then down 100 with a pair of Super Slim Half Green Jeans went several times. The stack was pinned 20 feet above the main bait. The same with the starboard out down set at 65. It had an SS Green Hulk stacked with a SS Half Green Jeans. We took 2 fish on the same rod on that out down. The chute rigger down 105 with an 11″ DW White Slick Paddle/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly stacked with a SS Half Green Jeans took our biggest King. It took the Paddle. Later in the trip we took a Laker on the same Paddle 150 down. We took a couple fish on the stack too. Our 6 color, 10 color cores, 200, 250 275 & 300 coppers all took fish with Super Slim Spoons. One of our bigger Kings came on the 275 copper with a SS Soda. We use Morgan’s Tackle copper and wire and our lead cores and coppers with Dreamweaver Ninja Boards.