Ludington Area Fishing Reports

We fished southwest of Ludington this morning on a 5 hour charter setting up in 200 feet of water. Surface temp was 65.3 and 57 degrees down 80 feet. It was a lot rougher than we expected. We put it on a northwest troll. First bite came on an out down set at 90 feet with a mag Bloody Nose spoon. It hit and was gone. We turned back on a southeast troll after two miles without another bite. Our first fish came on the chute rigger down 125 with an 11″ Dreamweaver White Slick Paddle/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly. We turned back on an out troll and took a Steelhead on a 2 color core with a Yeck Double Orange Crush. Took a Laker on a low wire Deeper Diver out 200 with an 8″ White Slick Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly. When we were pulling lines, we found a small King riding on a standard DW Soda Spoon stacked above the Paddle on our chute rigger. We use Morgan’s Tackle copper and wire and pull our lead cores and copper with Dreamweaver Ninja Boards.

Tough day, we set up in 110 feet of water just north of the weather buoy. The water was warm, 62 surface-57 80 feet. We trolled northwest. The picture on the graph looked pretty good. The deeper we got the down temp cooled, but no bites. At 210 feet of water we turned on an in troll. The farther in we trolled the down temp started to warm, so we turned back on the northwest troll. We finally took a nice Steelhead in 220 feet of water on a low wire Deeper Diver out 200 with an 8″ White Slick Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly. We had a tug on a Slide Diver out 125 with a Gold Yeck Fireball. A fish hit a low wire Deeper Diver out 185 with an 8″ Chrome Two Face Flip Fin Paddle/Pickled Sunshine action Fly. It striped out 6 feet of wire and was gone. We missed a fish on the chute rigger down 125 with an 11″ White Slick DW Paddle/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly. We hit a big Steelhead on a standard orange glow spoon down 110 on an out down. It put on a good show before it threw the hook. We had another bite on the same spoon but it didn’t hook up. We covered a lot of water this morning without much to show for it. The water looked good but we couldn’t get the fish to cooperate. We use Morgan’s Tackle copper and wire and pull our lead cores and copper with Dreamweaver Ninja Boards.