In The Net

silver horde all white or white with a black ladder back. We took five fish in 15 minutes last year on a silver horde white with a black ladder back, and then the line snapped. It also took fish on other trips.

Sorry if my report frustrate you. Not ment to do so, just trying to help peopal find fish.

no i didnt mean it like that. Actually earlier in the year when we were in holland we based alot of what we did on ur reports and they are really helpful. Im just saying that we will come in with 7 fish and think we did really good, but then we see ur report and were always like what does he do so different??

yea we seem to comeback with 6-7 fish alot, but then i get home and read reports of 12-20 fish and it really frustrats me. I always feel like we do good and then i read dirty dogs reports and i get frustrated. Although i dont feel that bad because we usually outfish everyone at the docks in ludington. But we dont beat the charters.

Captain chucks in ludington usually has strips

the fish in ludington were empty this last weekend

Nicely done. Ludington sure has been good as of late from what ive been hearing.

Well they were killing them all week and then with the wheather change it really slowed down... We saw 7 ppl at the docks and 4 of them got skunked and the rest had no more than 3 fish...

Well Saturday was alot of fun but it became a little hard with only 2 ppl on the boat. So we got out pretty early and it was pouring when we were running to the point. We got all the rods set and we caught a shaker, so we through it back. About 20 minutes later the 300 copper went which had a meat rig on it. It was a 12 pound king. Then we did not catch anything for abount an hour. We decided to move everything up to the 40-50 ft range, and the fun began. We had a double header with a rigger and a dipsey. We landed both of them. then we got the rods back in the water and we had another double. Once we caught those we turned back around the other downrigger went and we landed that one. We turned around and the hapee meal missed a fish. Then we missed another fish on the wire dipsey with a meat rig. This all happened in about 30 minutes The double headers were tough because of the other boats a waves and only 2 ppl on the boat. The silver flouder pounder took 3 fish. The bloody nose took 2 fish. The hapee meal took 1 and missed 1. We ended the day 7 for 9. We had one smaller fish and the other ones were good size. 4 fish were in the 12 to 14 pound range and then we had a nice 18 pounder.

Sunday was short. We fished from 7am to 9am. 3 to 5 footers pushed us off the lake. We went 4 for 7. Still only 2 ppl on the boat. Made it hard. I got the dipsey out with a bloody nose spoon and it was in the water for 10 seconds and it took off and it snapped the leader. It was my bad because I had the drag to tight. I barely had time to check it. After that the same rig just with a different bloody nose on it, and it landed a 10 pound king. Just after that a bloody nose took another king. Then about 30 minutes later the silver flounder pounder took a 10 pound laker. Then finally the same bloody nose took a 15 pound king to end the day. In the middle of all that the hapee meal missed a fish and the bloody nose missed another fish.

caught all fish in 160 fow and the bloody nose was obvously the best. It took 5 fish. The silver flounder pounder was also good. It took 4 fish. hapee meal took 1 and missed 2. The meat rig took 1 and missed 1. We went 11 for 16 over the two days.

hey we lost a walleye board saturday in ludington... but it had a meat rig on it

I have found the same btw south haven empty and lud full. Lots of dead floating alewives up in Lud last weekend.

yea we saw like 10 alwives floating in Ludington

everyone loves that double trouble but we have had no luck with it

its great to hear the responses.. i forgot to mention taht mine would be a braided dipsey with either bloody nose spoon or a white falsher fly combo

most fish were empty in holland. Although a couple fish had bait in them. The fish in ludington have been full. We pulled 10 alwives out of a fish not to long ago.

40 fow is really shallow but thats great to hear because its really easy to fish that shallow. Its weird though because we were talking to this guy in Frankfort who limited out in an hour in 225 fow. We will be up in ludington this weekend fishing the 40 fow to start though. Thanks for the report.

haha thats great... I feel like we had big meanie on in Ludington. He hit our 200 copper and didnt stop. He took every inch of line we had with hime without stopping. So we waved goodbye to our wolverine spoon, planerboard, and line.... We always carry extra football/hockey equipment with us because of big meanir.

What would you run.. So would it be copper, lead, dipsey, downrigger, etc. And what bait would use???

great to hear the fish are in solid in Ludington... Hopefully their hitting good his next weekend when we are up their

haha good question... No it was really foggy so we could not see him at all so we had no idea where he was and we forgot that he came out a 9 am.. But when he blew his horn we figured out what where he was and got out of their. We couldent see the badger at all!!!! It wasnt that close either but it was scary because he just kinda popped out of the fog.

no it wasnt nets but we did see nets... the fish jumped so it wasnt nets

1 10 pouder and the other 3 were 14 pounders

VERY SLOW DAY... we went 1 for 4 in 2.5 hours. Stareted at 6 Am and we ran south past the projects turned around and trolled north back to Ludington. Missed our first hit because it must have been a monster. It hit the 10 color lead and didnt stop. It took all the lead and 300 ft of backing with it and we could not stop it. Tighten the drag when their was only 10 foot of backing left and it snapped the line, and that was on a Wolverine spoon... the second hit was the fish we caught. It was caught on a dipsey 80 back with a bloody nose spoon. Then the next hit was missed on a 100 copper 42# with a wolverine NBK spoon. The last hit was missed on a 200 blood run copper 32#. With a red flounder pounder. Then the fog rolled in and we decided to end after we almost got hit by the Badger. SCARY!!!! Tournament in pentwater sounded like it was really slow and everone in ludington had 0 or 1 fish.

Sunday night was better than Saturday. We went 3 for 4. 1st fish was caught on 200 32# blood run copper with a red flounder pounder. didnt catch anything after that until dark and we finally decided to put the half core out. We could only run 6 rods so we werent sure exactly what to put out. Not putting the half core out earlier was a mistake because it took 2 fish in the last 30 minutes of fishing. It had a shelly snacker on it. The missed fish was on a wire diver that I moved up to 35 back. It had a moonshine bloodynose on it and the fish snapped the line. The fish were really high in the water column and we didnt have anything high until dark.

Saturday fish were caught in 60 fow and on sunday they were caught in 40 fow. Fishing sounded slow from reports we heard. Saw some people sunday night at the dock that got skunked. The fishing will only get better!!!!

easier to use and I think you can feel the fish alot better than other copper so it makes the fight better.

can this hear all the way up in Ludington, or just in the muskegon/holland area??

yeah the fish are definitly bigger this year. The size of the fish we have caught this year are the size of the fish we caught in late summer last year. their are gonna be alot of 25 pounders swimming around in august!!! Maybe even a couple 30 pounders????

We do almost exactly what Nailer said. although we like to set the dipseys first because we seem to catch the most fish on those, so we figure we should get that out first. Definitly have the deeper stuff closer to the boat or you WILL have tangles. Its just common sense to have the deeper close. But good luck with your setup next time you get out.

nice.. we will be up in ludington soon. We had a rod break on us last year with a 15 pound steelhead on and we had have a guy hold the rod togethere well the other reeled. Crazy but fun!!