Fishing Day 2 of 3 with John and Janet...7/30/2024

The dogs woke me up a 1/2 hour early this morning, so I had to get up to see what they wanted. Turns out, they just wanted me up, so I stayed up, brewed some coffee, grabbed the dog treats, and went outside.
The weather this morning, had a light breeze out of the SW, a partly cloudy sky, and a 77 degree air temperature. I checked the radar first, because scattered showers and thunderstorms, for the area this morning, was the last thing I heard, last night. The radar showed a line of rain coming in from the WSW, but it looked like it was going to move north, before hitting Port Clinton.

The plan this morning was to launch out of Huron. The radar showed no precipitation headed in that vicinity any time soon, so I felt good about that decision. The wind direction was also favorable for Huron, so that made it even better.

I'm glad we went perch fishing yesterday, because I'm sure it was rough at Green Island today. :)

I picked John and Janet up at 4:45, and we headed to the gas station for some ice. The boat and truck were already gassed up, and ready to go. We hit the Huron ramp at 5:30 and waited for it to get lighter out, before launching at 5:50am.

I explained to them, how an offshore wind makes small waves inside, and it looks calm, but the further you go out the rougher it is going to get. They understood. The wind forecast for the morning, was 11-14mph, with gusts up to 21, out of the SSW. But, it was more SSE early this morning, and changed to SSW around 8:30-9:00am.

The Vexus was pointed NE, out of the river, and set down over 38 feet of water. The Helix was showing us there were fish down there, so the usual things happened. The Terrova got deployed first, sand a course set to the NNE. The FishHawk went next, to read the current speed down below. Then, the baby Merc was throttled up with the iTroll, to a desired starting speed of 2.3-2.5mph.

Dipsies ruled this morning... with BadMo Arrow spoons (the smaller ones), Yeck spoons (D-11s), and Michigan Scorpion spoons running behind them.

The inside rod, on both sides were set on the zero setting. The port side started at 45 back. The starboard side started at 50 back. Both, were dialed in a little more as the morning went on, and they constantly caught fish anywhere between 50 and 60 back.

The outside rod on the port side, ran a three setting at 75 back. (It was the busiest of the 4 rods.)

The outside rod on the starboard side ran a two setting dipsey, at 65 back. That one stayed busy too.

Two Off Shore boards ran on each side, pulling Spro 85s on the starboard side, and Bill Lewis PWC Lites on the port side. All ran with 2 oz Guppie weights.
The port side ran a Chrome Perch at 50/77, and a Black Headed Wonder Bread color at 50/47 back.
PWC colors were, Pink Lemonade at 50/80 back, and Purple Glass Perch at 50/43 back.

John and Janet had a great time reeling in their limits, as did I, and they did a great job, for never having used dipsies, or planer boards, before. We had our three-person limit by 8:15, but stayed out and played catch and release for another hour, or so, before heading back in.

We will be trying another area out of Huron tomorrow, too.

Stay tuned....

Capt Juls