how is fishing in buffalo

[walleyerick]

I do not want to hear about perch; they are too hard to clean. I want yellow pike ! Where are the schools ?

[bailey]

Well we got 7to eyes 2 keepers and lost something big the fish never hit till 11 straight out front between 18 mile and meyers. In 40 to 45 fow.

[ShortHanded]

Saturday...

2 trophy smallies and 1 6-7lb yellow...tough day, covered lots of water from the Fence in 55-fow to Meyers in 36-fow and Seneca in 41-fow, marked very few fish, widely scattered.

my best picture (not a great picture btw) of the day was out deep off the Fence

picked the yellow up in 41-fow just west of the red can. north troll, black/pink hatchet, 20 ft off down rigger ball, 2.1-mph down speed. another hit and miss in the same area, and we called it a day.

worked hard for very little. back at it after the front passes.

Jack

and oh, Fishkiller gets kudos - receiving the most incoming vhf hails today...

good luck guys...

[copo427ss]

Jim I can't stop and have a beer with you if your not on ur moored vessel. Lol.

I'll post my awesome day later on. Still got some stuff to do at the house while it's light

[copo427ss]

I'm not in the tourney. Just took my uncle out fishin. Well we launched from sp. I decided to head west. Trolled from Evans bar to past cattaragus creek. Started at 38ft and worked through to 55fow. No eyes. One perch and one silver bass. Ended up with a broken downrigger rod and a lost harness. Decided to try by 18 mile and Meyers. My wonderful uncle tossed the cannonball over the back and snapped the cable, losing the ball, release, and snubber, costing me more money. And again no eyes. I hope everyone's day was better than mine!

[NateD]

Hi everyone, I am a newbie to this site. I appreciate all the info, and thanks to all who are willing to share their experience with beginners like me! Between work and having younger kids life gets pretty busy, but I am happy to be able to get out when I can (usually several times over the summer). With walleye fishing, I am at the stage where I'm always still very glad to even get one fish to the boat! Looking forward to reading through a bit more here, and I see some of you are SWA members. My son has the kid membership, and I have been meaning to try to get to a meeting and join sometime myself. Looking to learn more and improve in the years ahead.

I did get out this evening and managed to hook one smaller 'eye off the windmills in about 38 fow (guessing a 2010 year class given the size). 5 chartreuse beads and a colorado blade, the same (and only) pattern that I ended up catching all of my walleyes on last year. Saw lots of interesting marks, but no other takers... Earlier I tried 26-45 fow off Myers but nothing was doing.

[milt]

nate welcome aboard u will get alot of tips here this is a great group of people on this site milt

[wnyguy]

I hope everyone's day was better than mine!

haha I had a good day too. Launched from sturgeon point and just as soon as I started to rev it up to get out to the perch beds my engine started getting loud and I smelled burned rubber! Bad impeller most likely I shut the engine down before it overheated, haven't had a chance to pull the outdrive but hopefully today. Needless to say no perch! I did troll for a little while using my kicker, ran a couple of stingers on 20 and 30 ft jets, covered 30-40 feet water but I wasn't marking any fish, no hits, and I didn't have the horsepower to get out and find em.

Even with all that, it was still nice to be on the lake again

[walleyerick]

Did you know that perch are much healthier for you to eat than walleye (out of erie) ?

This may be true wnyguy, but unfortunately I have not been catching enough walleye lately to worry about the health risks. My recipe :

Scale 'em, filet 'em, egg 'em, bread 'em - deep fry in 375 degree oil. When done, eat 'em. This is absolutely the best tasting fish there is on the planet. Now all I got to do is catch 'em.

Thanks for the warning though.

[fishkiller16]

Sorry Rick I disagree I would rather eat perch.