Easy pickens on the east side

So today myself and regular fishing buddy decided to run back up to where we fished last Sunday, but on the way up I kept seeing quite a few marks on the screen, so I dropped off plane to just above trolling speed for a better look and the screen was loaded with marks at 24ft down. From last weekends results, we had earlier decided that we'd run all larger sized stinger spoons as it seemed to reduce the junk fish catch rate. We set them at 55-60 fb with jet 40s at 2.7 and got 6 keepers in the first 20 minute pass, pulled our gear and ran back down for 1 more pass to get our other 6, 4 sheep, no bass, and about 7 shorts... took an hour and 45 minutes, which seems to be about average lately for 4 rods and back on the trailer by 9:30. The hot color today was Golden Melon and something...Parrot at a close second.

thanks for report and finding your own fish

Thx for the info, what island are these coordinates by? We always come out of PUT In Bay.

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Originally Posted by ttinman23

Thx for the info, what island are these coordinates by? We always come out of PUT In Bay.

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That spot is on the east side of Kelly's, about 1 1/2 miles south of Kelly's schoal.

Thx, we fish west but its getting kinda
slow. That's a good haul for us.

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Originally Posted by itsbob

thanks for report and finding your own fish

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No problem, It's kinda nice having good electronics that mark fish at high speeds. Last Sunday we didn't have a boat within 5 miles and this Sunday we were done before anybody showed up on the east side.

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Originally Posted by ttinman23

Thx, we fish west but its getting kinda
slow. That's a good haul for us.

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Don't know how far west you go, try the east side of little pickeral...we fished there Saturday morning and got em.

Someone was asking how to post pics, so here's a week ago Sundays trip. Click Go Advanced, click Manage Attachments, click Add Files, click Basic Uploader, click Browse, I click on Pictures, then double click the file,click the picture, click upload, click done, click preview post, then Submit or save....I don't know how to use the insert image, does someone else have an easier way?

Tonight had to be the easiest fishing this year.

Went for a short trip last night from 6-9pm around the same area that we've been fishing the last 3 weeks. The bite was quite a bit slower than normal, the fish were still there, but didn't want to come above 35ft until we were ready to leave. We caught a lot of short walleye in the 6" range that hit the larger stinger spoons, we haven't even been running the smaller ones in the last few trip...we still ended up with 14 and lost a few keepers at the back of the boat, same program jets and spoons 60bk at 2.6

took my limit of two tickets, all 20 incher plus, on 2oz guppies and worm harnesses with "GOLD" spinners and if you are a bead nut like me, clear pink and clear green beads seemed to be the favorite of choice, I lost probably the same amount that I caught in the two hrs out 1-3 in the afternoon, if I had a charter and ran my eight rod spread it would have been very very busy. I was fishing on a 20 ft reef and running those 20z guppies back 40ft with the 3ft harness snells. Caught only two sheephead for my hungry cats....lol no other junk. These fish still want to forage on anything resembling Mayflies.Havent been able to fish for 3 weeks, but notice how soft there mouths have become and light bites,:cool:

Left out of Mazurik's and got to our spot about 7:10 and within 2 minutes we had a triple going. Running fast again today around 2.9 and 55bk, we only did one long pass trolling NE and we had our 18 in the box by 8:30.

How far of a run would this NE of Kelly’s be from PIB state park launch. Any idea?

Well we come out of PIB state park so we got close to middle sister once but it was quite the haul for us. Kinda stuck in the middle either a long haul west or east. Never really headed east of Kelly’s.

According to Navionics it's about 16 miles east of the state park on South Bass

There are lots of walleye in the Lake. From South Bass Island State Park I doubt you really need to go as far as east of Kelleys Island. I'd either head N from the Park and fish the deep waters off North Bass Island's west shoal, scout and fish out there, or head around the North side of South Bass and head out NE of Middle Bass Island's long point out near the border, and scout / fish there. You are looking for clearer deeper water in the "travel lane" from the mouth of the Detroit river east to the Central Basin. These two areas are in that lane. You ought to be able to find at least decent to good numbers of walleye at these two places in August. Just because you aren't hearing reports from these areas doesn't mean there aren't walleye there. More likely that because of the distance from the mainland, few people are traveling that far. From Port Clinton east you can get to the east side of Kelleys in less time or the same. So that's were people go, because they heard the reports.