Ludington Area Fishing Reports

We needed a good catch after our last few trips and we got one. We set up in 100 feet of water. The surface temp was 68 and it was 48 degrees 70 down on our Fish Hawk. Most of our rods were set when our starboard out down set at 65 ft. with a mag Green Hulk and a standard glow spoon free sliding above it went. We missed it. It went 2 more times at 65 ft. and twice at 85 ft. later in the trip. We boated a King and 2 Steelhead on that combo. We had bites on a 8″ Kevin’s Girlfriend Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine Dreamweaver Meat Rig on a low wire Deeper Diver out 170. A High wire diver out 210 with an 8″ White Slick Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine Action Fly went 4 times. Our chute rigger down 95 with a 10″ White Slick Spin Doctor/Pickled Sunshine DW Meat Rig stacked with a Super Slim Green Dolphin took a big Steelhead. It took the stack. We took a Coho and a King on a 300 copper with a Michigan Shiner Captains Choice Cut Plug. We lost a Steelhead and landed one on a 10 color core with a standard DW Rasta Goose. Our port low wire Deeper Diver out 150 with a 10″ UV Lifes Good Spin Doctor/Yellow Gasoline Dreamweaver Meat Rig took one of our bigger Steelhead. Our big King hit a 375 copper with an 8″
discontinued Spin Doctor/Yellow Gasoline DW Meat Rig. We spent the morning trolling between 100 and 190 feet of water. We use Dreamweaver Premium Strips in all our meat rigs and Morgan’s Tackle copper and wire. Mother Nature and the fish cooperated to give us a fun trip.

Tough morning up north for us today. It started with a boat setting up right on our tail. We only had the probe rigger and the chute down, so we pulled them and went behind the offending boat. The water was 52 degrees down 100 ft. on our Fish Hawk. We had all our lines set before we hit our first fish. It hit on an out down set at 60 ft. with a pair of glow spoons. The young man on the rod did an excellent job and landed the King.  That was it for our early action. We continued trolling north past the Point for a couple miles without another bite. We turned out west heading for deeper, and we hoped, colder water. We just got straightened out from the turn when another King hit mag carbon spoon on a 375 copper. We doubled up when a fish took a Natural Glow Captain’s Choice Cut Plug. The fish on the plug escaped but we landed the other one. It was a long time waiting for our next bite. We trolled west out to 350 feet of water then turned back east. The temp out there 100 ft. down was 47 degrees. We had a couple cores up high trying for a Steelhead but everything else was deep. We broke out our 500 and 550 coppers and put them out with Spin Doctors and meat rigs. We hit a fish on the 500 with a 10″ Chrome Two Face Spin Doctor/Green Gasoline DW Meat Rig. After a long fight it popped off. Shortly after that our 550 took off. It had an 8″ Green Dragon Slayer Spin Doctor/Mystery Meat Rig. I call it a mystery rig because another captain gave me the set up and wouldn’t appreciate me giving it up. That fish gave us all kinds of problems. It got into both high wire divers and two boards. On top of that we still trolling east with our deep stuff out coming up on the Bank. We couldn’t turn hard because the King would have got into our last two port side boards. What a mess. The good news was that the man on the rod hung in there and boated a nice King. We took a Lake Trout pulling lines on a 325 copper with a uv glow spoon. We use Dreamweaver Premium Strips in all our meat rigs and Morgan’s Tackle copper and wire.