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Thinking of heading to Erie tomorrow, but don't really want to be there when the worst of the midge hatch happens. A couple years ago I hit it on a day when the midges were like the plague and had to do a thorough cleaning/shampooing of the boat. I was thinking the tiny midges show up before the mayflies, but does anyone have a current report? Thanks so much!
This probably won't be a lot of help, but I'll tell ya what I know. I fished out of Avon Point "Miller Road" 5/10 and 5/11 and the bugs weren't too bad.
No bugs yet around the islands or reefs!
Thanks guys! That gives me some peace of mind. I'll report on how my day went when I get back. Tight lines and God Bless!
Well I made it out on Thursday the 15th and there were very few bugs. It was an interesting day for me. I didn't catch any walleye on cranks, they all came on crawler harnesses. The best harness was a gold butterfly style. Also I think all of them came in the top 12 feet of the water column, I tried going deeper, but no dice. Speed was 1.3 to 1.6 while pulling harnesses. At one point I had switched to just cranks and sped up to 2.1 but no takers. Ended up fishing most of the day in order to get my limit. I started on the NW corner of Kelley's in 40 fow and trolled east towards Middle Bass. Water was very clean, and probably too clean for the cranks to work well. I then took a run in the "cup" on the north side of Kelley's and then went south a bit and trolled directly west from Kelley's. The water was a bit more stained between South Bass and Kelley's. I still didn't have my limit by 2pm so I made the trek a few miles east of Kelley's where I saw a few other boats and finished out the day there. The six I kept were all 20"-23". It was a beautiful day on the water!
Good data. Thanks!