Ludington 7/19 mid morning

[jdh]

Took a short trip this morning.  Primarily wanted to catch some alewives, which was accomplished fairly quickly in the harbor with a sabiki rig.  Put some in salt but kept a few in the livewell.  After running out to 70 fow I stopped and dropped an alewife down, and started jigging with my second rod.  Had many fish swim in interested and had 4 hits.  Ended up catching a coho.  At 11 I decided to troll back north towards port, but although I had multiple fish following the flasher fly on the downriggers, only had 1 hit on a diver back 70 feet with the flasher fly.  Pulled lines around 12:30.

 

[jdh]

Didn't feel like posting a whole new thread.  Tried the jigging thing again Saturday afternoon.  Wasn't able to find any bigger concentration of fish, but had maybe 6 or 7 follows between 3 of us on the boat and got one nice king in on a white EJ jig 2 oz.  Seemed to me with the flip, most of the fish were in the upper 20 feet which makes jigging a bit more tricky.  Fished 80-120 fow by the point.