Ashtabula 8/24

[DW72]

Thanks brother. Great sharing info with you and the guys here. Love this stuff! Hope to get out one more trip and if I do, I'll definitely give Geneva a try.

Safe and good fishing to all!!

[Budman118]

I agree pfk. Our best fish were between 02 and 04 Friday. Then we ran out of em and made the turn. Finished our limit and threw the 5 more we had on back. It’s a beautiful thing when they are crushing baits! DW have you ever tried Northeast marina in PA? Its a couple miles before the New York line. 3 miles out and you’re in 100FOW. Great lake trout and walleye fishing out there. I’m talking 15+ pound lake trout and up! Good walleye fishing closer to shore too and alot shorter runs. It drops off pretty quick to deeper water

[nickpaolini81]

I do not understand the lingo "02 and 04". I assume it's a form of nautical marking.....anyone have a "Trolling for Walleye in Lake Erie and understanding forum terminology for Dummies?" or simple explanation?

[Budman118]

Nick go into your settings on your chart(lake map) and activate your gps grid lines. When you look at the horizontal lines you will see numbers. When we are talking about 02 line we mean 4202 horizontal line. That’s 42 degrees 02 North is the grid line number. Your lines running up and down are you’re westerly heading. We aren’t talking about those. So say the marina is 4150 line(not sure what line actually), you would have to run North to the grid line that’s says 4202. That would be approximately 12 nautical miles and 13.75 regular land miles. So if you would set a waypoint out there to take you back there to fish, it gives you both numbers(North and West) to take you back to that spot. It’s like a big piece of graph paper. These numbers are pretty specific to the area of Geneva and Ashtabula. They may be too shallow for Walnut Creek, PA or too far out for Cleveland or Huron. I’m by no means a pro at this so if someone else has a better explanation of this, please chime in. Hope this helps.

[DW72]

You can also simply see it on the GPS coordinates. It'll increase as you head North.

[nickpaolini81]

Ahhhh. I see now. so you were picking up the fish between 42.02 N through 42.04 N.

[DW72]

Correct. Budman nailed it.

[DW72]

I have not but will keep Northeast in mind too. Thanks!