Fishing with Dan and Ed....8/15/2024

My original plan was to go to Huron, but with reports of floating grass in the area, I decided that launching in Vermilion would be a wiser move. We could head north to escape the floating masses.

I picked my crew up from the White Caps Motel at 5am, and headed to the gas station, to get ice for the coolers...we then headed east to Vermilion. No one was there, so the ramp was all ours. After paying the launch fee, and hitting the bathrooms, we launched at 6am. Sunrise is at 6:30 now.


The sky was lightening, so by the time we got to Lorain, it was light enough to remove the navigation lights.


The dipsies went out first, and were catching before I could start on the crankbaits behind the planer boards.


Dipsey settings that worked well for us were:
zero setting 60 back (port side) and 65 back (starboard side)
two setting at 80 back (starboard side)
three setting at 80 back (port side)


Spoons were out-fishing the cranks this morning. Yeck (D-11s) in colors I don't know the names of..sorry. They had pink bellies though, and I think that was the key to those two. Those were on the two and three setting dipsies.


A Black/Silver/Green striped back w/silver bellied BadMo Arrow spoon fished behind the zero setting on the starboard side. A Yeck spoon with copper/red/black on the back, with a royal blue belly, worked behind the zero setting on the port side.


Speed on the FishHawk was 2.3-2.5mph. The currents over in Lorain are all over the place, and flowing like ribbons in a gentle breeze, through the water. We would be scooting along at 2.3mph and then all of the sudden, the FishHawk shows the speed at 2.7-3.3mph, or 1.7-1.9mph....then, it would go back to 2.3mph after a short period. So, we were weaving through these opposing currents, continually.


The baby Spro (85s) ran behind the Off Shores on the port side, and the Bill Lewis Lites ran on the starboard side.
2oz Guppie weights ran 50/70, and 50/60 on the starboard side, and at 50/57 and 50/55 on the port side. All of these caught a fish or two.


Color were:
Spros: Chrome Perch and Blue/Chrome
Lites: Blue/Chrome and Purple Tiger


Water temp was 75 degrees on the surface...and, the same, on the FHawk, 20 feet down.


Dan and Ed did a great job getting their fish to the boat and netted...we only lost two that came unbuttoned from the spoons.


They each caught their limit, and I caught mine too. They were happy campers, to say the least, and so was I.


I told them on the way back to Port Clinton, that they should take a nap, and then go back out to try for some perch, because we have wind coming tomorrow through the weekend, and their boat isn't really made of this lake. They were planning on going up to the Detroit River to fish, if it got too windy here.
I was happy to hear that.


We had a great time today, and that makes me happy! :)


I'm off tomorrow, but have Saturday and Sunday trips scheduled for a one day perch trip, and a one day walleye trip. I'll be watching the wind forecast, because where I have been fishing, is not where I would go in any SW wind, gusting to 20-25mph. I'll discuss it with my crew. We may reschedule, if it doesn't improve.


Stay tuned...


Capt Juls