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We went out at 6 am yesterday. Fishing was slow. We hit several reefs, Kcan and a few other spots. We caught 20 fish total in 7 hours of fishing. It was one fish here one fish there all day. At the fish cleaning we had 60 pounds of fish for a 3 pound average. Not bad since everyone seemed to be struggling. We caught everything on purple hair jigs within 6" of the bottom. We probably caught at least 15 to 20 sheephead. The captain said it was the most sheephead he had seen caught this spring. By the way we had six guys fishing on the boat so not even close to a limit. I can't complain about our results based on wind change mid morning and cold front on Friday night.
Doug
Saturday afternoon
2 man limit of perch between Marblehead and East Harbor. 25 fow. Lots of spawned out females and tons of white bass.
Good Luck All !!!
saturday 1 walleye 2 smally one 19 inch 5 pounder. 6-8 sheephead and few white perch. sunday no walleye 1 smallmouth i sheephead we jiged mostly on saturday with minnows without minnows with worms. today i tried weapons jigs bladebaits with minnows and worms nothing we fished around turtle reef crane creek area was told they did better in bay but buddys went there today got skunked 5 boats out today 2 walleye between them very sad but better then being home with the heater on.question the one smallmouth the big one had black spots on it they were the size of say a nickle but were not round they were all different shapes i was not sure if it was a smallmouth the other ones did not have no spots any body ever got one with black spots let me know it was a female with eggs coming out. anybody doing better in the bay around the humps last saturday we got a 3 man limlit in a hour and a half
Fished staright out of Wild Wings today, about 1.5 to 2 miles 16 to 20 feet of water. Very slow for us. We managed 6 between 2 of us. I am thinking the fish are in the transistion right now. None of the males we caught today were milking unlike last weekend when they all were, if that means anything. Tried bouncers this am when there was a little drift, only white perch. Been a tough spring with the weather this year.
Whos yer daddy- Any size to the perch over that way?
Wacker..
The last 2 weekends just about all fish averaged 10-13 " . Only threw a handfull back.All good solid fish with few eggs. Will be out there next weekend too. Look for the olive orab 18" tracker grizzley...lol
hope this helps and good luck
What were you useing? Spreaders & minnows?Quote:
Originally Posted by Whos_Yer Daddy
Fished Saturday out of Toledo Beach picked up 6 walleye and a bunch of white bass. Got all of the fish trolling-was a slow day. Hoping that in the next week or two it really turns on. Biggest 5.5 lbs all fish over 20 inches.
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Originally Posted by True Blue
True Blue....
We were using crappie rigs and the smallest minnows possible in the bucket. For some reason they didnt want the big ones. only the sheephead and white bass did...LOL. I moved the wires down on the line so the bottom hook ( size 6 ) was just about enen with the sinked on the bottom. That is the hook most of the fish were biting on. As the current in the lake picked up, we also had to bump up the weight from 1/2 oz to 1 1/2 oz to keep it on the bottom.
Hope this helps and best of luck to ya !!!
See you all next weekend !!
Tuff weekend! I caught one walleye 18"
and one big sheephead on Saturday just off camp perry.
On Sunday I caught another big sheephead just off camp perrry.
I caught 2 18" small mouth bass off niagara reef using a purple jig tipped with a minnow and a stinger hook. I turned the small mouth lose so you can catch them too!;)
I was using everything I could think of to catch the walleye, but it must of been just one of those weekends.
Saturday 5/2 fished 6 hours picked up 10 fish 2 fish Ohio's 29" & 30" fished north of Kelleys 45' fow close to the line. Trolling with stingers and dipsy. Most hits on spoons. I think the jig bite is about done and trolling is the way to go! Good luck to all...will be back up this weekend.
Saturday we started out by K can and caught 5 or 6. We moved around there for about 1 1/2 hours and went to Niagra where we caught no eyes. Then we moved to Crib and caught the rest just before 12:00 making the 2 man limit.
We caught most of them on white jigs tipped with a minnow. Some with no minnow or a white hair jig with a gulp green/chartruse minnow.
Sunday we started by K and again caught 5 or 6 moving around here and there by K. Then we moved north of Locust and by Cone (here and there) and caught another 10 making 16 for 3 guys. It was really tough when it laid down.
I was using the white 3/4 hair jig with tincil and no minnow. My buddys were using minnows. Most were caught with no minnow. They were spotty.
Lots of sheephead, catfish, and white perch.
Overall not a bad weekend but it was tough. I think we were lucky!
Fished Tuesday night for 2.5 hours in front of Turtle Creek. Fishing very spotty. 5 walleye on purple jigs and 1 walleye on a purple blade bottom bouncer tipped with 2 minnows
My wife caught two walleye, one 16" and one 24" on a perch spreader in 20' of water fished just off the bottom, about a half mile south of E can. She also caught 6 white perch and 2 white bass. She caught one walleye on a night crawler and one on a minow.
I was using the purple jig tiped with a minow, and caught a sheephead. I tried other lures but the spreader my wife was using was doing great!
Well I am eating fish tonight because I brought my wife!:D
Fished friday evening between 8-11pm between Cranberry Creek and the Mansion.
5 walleye 19-22"
12-16' fow
Trolled hot-n-tots 150' back.
Chrome/black
Water is finally starting to warm up.....Good fishin's on it's way !!!
Another tough weekend to fish caught about 50 sheepshead friday eve in frt of davis bessie . went out to round reef and toussant sat am caught about 12 nice eyes 26 in or so but waves were tomuch had to head in around noon erie deries green white redorange bottombouncers worm harness ,purple hairjigs all caught fish another week or so wit some cooperation from wind and rain and the fishing will be better hang in there :cool:
We caught 6 eyes on Sunday.
The water was kind of muddy from that fierce West wind the day before.
2 were caught by K can and 4 on Locust. We left at noon.
It wasn't my day that day. I only caught one of the five and my buddy caught the rest. He was using hair jigs with several minnows on them. At first I wasn't using a minnow but then I switched and caught 1!!
Gonna troll this weekend with spoons. It's supposed to be flat calm (they're saying right now).
fishing slow but good 10 nice eyes 3 over 5 lbs nightcrawers flouresant orange 1.5 25fow so bass
A nice day on the lake, but no eyes!:confused:
I caught some of the bigest Sheepheads I have ever caught today.
Started at Round Reef , then to Niagara Reef and no eyes!:eek:
I was using jigs(purple) tiped with minnow and night crawler harness too!
The only thing I can think of is the lake has been affected by the high waves and that has mixed things up as far as fishing goes.
Tried drifting the deeper water off of the SW corner of Kelley's Island, the graph was full of fish but we couldn't get anything going. Got 1 walleye on first cast and that was it. We fished for 3.5 hours and never boated another fish, not even a sheepshead. Seen a few fish netted but not many. The water was pretty dirty all the way out and was still dirty where we fished. We heard one guy on the radio that was 3 away from their limit but no idea how long they were fishing. They must have been close because their signal was super clear.
Heard of a good bite going 1 mile off of Crane Creek but with 2'-3' waves we didn't feel like running the 10+ miles on one un-substantiated report.
We had been getting good numbers off of Starve Island Shoal jigging the past couple of weeks but that is over. I have no idea where the fish have moved to.
Because of the lack of reports it looks like no one knows where the walleyes have moved to.
Russ
fished off kelly's island between the first and second can all week got two man limit on sun. mon ,tues, but only got 7 on wendays and 10 on thurdays. We used bottom bouncers with crawlers. different colors all week, but purple seem best for me. The fish are spread out, didn't have a double the whole time.the white perch are a real pain though, they are as pesty as ever (bring lots of worms)most fish were in the 3#-4# range with a couple of 7#s
limits on tuesday no we were short had 20 fish that weighed 50 pounds purple weapons gold pink harnesses on bottom bouncers one guy wanted to go in so we left. wensday it was a little tuff got 16 for 4 guys mostly on pink purple and gold harnesses on bottom bouncers 42 pounds. thursday limit 3 guys 44 pounds pink is hot on bottom bouncers caught some on gold weapons small blade playing swing ran into them and got 6 in ten minutes on pink harnesses on bottom bouncers it was 2-3s and had a 4 ounce bottom bouncers on the side that goes under the boat let it down to bottom and watch it 136 pounds in 3 days .started in 19 ft of water off wards and drift out to 22 - 23 ft short drifts but when it got a little rough we would drift longer 3 miles great 3 days hope they stay there we would be fishing all by our selfs but i called some buddys in and they caught fish 2
A great day for fishing!
Sheephead~alot.....there fun to catch...for a while.
6 JUMBO perch 12"ers
15 White Perch (they like to steal your nightcrawlers)
1 catfish
1 eye:confused:
1 White bass
We were using botom bouncers in 28 fow not far from Niagra.
We caught the Jumbo perch on a botom bouncer with a minow and no bling, just a perch hook.
The eye was caught on a yellow~green worm harness.
may 21 caught 1 26 inch muskie 2 white bass 2 sheephead and 5 nice walleyes off luna pier in 14 ft after 7:00 pm trolling with wiggle warts. great evening. returned the muskie bass and sh-thead to the lake put the boat away and was on the highway home before dark
Saturday between 9:00 and 1:30. Caught 20 walleye 1 1/2 miles northwest of west sister. Almost no wind. Casting gold blades on weapons or perch colored weight forwards. A lot of boats and a lot of trollers. Stay away from the boats and we caught fish.
fished flat rock.no wind so we pulled worm harnesses with bottom bouncers with the kicker motor.caught a three man limit plus some by noon.had 4 over 5 lbs.one 29 and 1/2 inch 9.2 lbs.you gotta love lake erie
Fished the 24th. Good action 3 man limit. Fished in 26-27 fow trolling spoons with jet divers. All fish over 20 inches. Gold spoons with some spots most productive.
Fished the 23rd out of Toledo Beach Marina 1 Walleye 22inches and 3 white bass. But only fished 1.5 hrs. Very windy and choppy 24th and the 25th.:(
It's been awhile since I caught a limit - so I'm happy to share it here as I check here often for tips and hints. My 9 old son and I were fishing Sunday (May 24) - we headed to Kelly Sholes on tip from Highway Bait - there were only about 15 boats in the area - with about 1/2 trolling (we were drifting). We caught two limits on 1 oz bottom bouncers, with crawler harnesses - mostly on orange, a few on silver and yellow. Fish started biting once the wind picked up that morning - we eventually had to through out the drift sock to slow down - but none the less and awesome day fishing with my son!! :D
This weekends wind and waves made lake erie cloudy!
I went out Saturday and fished near Niagara, but the wind kicked up and we moved to put-in bay to fish on the east side. No eyes on Saturday, just sheephead and white bass.
On Sunday I fished from my boat dock and caught; catfish, bullhead, sheephead, yellow perch, bulegill, crapie, rock bass,& largemouth bass. I was listening to the cb channel and I heard that you had to go out to the shipping channel to get clear water.
Anyways, my set up for the dock fishing was a spreader in 4 fow with no "bling" and just two crapie hooks with minows.
Fished Saturday just Norhteast of Niagra. 3 men threw everything but the kitchen sink at the eyes from 8:00 am till 2:00 and didn't catch any eyes. My buddy lost one at the boat. Moved closer to Catawba tried a couple more hours and called it a day. Tossed weapons, harnesses, weight forwards and even trolled for a while with jets and stingers. Second trip this year and skunked both times. Can't figure it out, another buddy said they caught 20 between 6 guys casting and drifting fishing closer to Besse in 20 FOW but worked 10 hours to get them. Is the population getting that low or am I just off to a slow start? Been fishing Western basin since 1988 and am concerned about the walleye future.
The water is way too dirty in that area. It will clear up in a couple of days.
I went out sat due east of west sister. Had lines set up at 7:30 had 9 eyes by 8:30. The last three took another hour after the wind and waves picked up. Sunday we were about one mile south of middle sister we picked up one with the program we used saturday and then switched to jets and spoons. We ended up with 12 total in 5 hours, sunday was a slow day.
Thanks for that tip on the scorpion size spoons Gettin Jiggy. They were the hot ticket. I wouldn't have done near as well running just the larger spoons. I did well but it was never really red hot. We had plenty of dry spells. I think the fish are wary from all of the strong multi directional winds and dirty water. A couple of calm days should fix things up. I will get back out there in a day or 2.
Fished NW of Kelley's and Gull Shoals on Saturday and caught a 29 incher. I didn't have an accurate scale but the little handheld on the boat was somewhere between 5 and 8 lbs. We were in 50 ft of water drifting deep with gold eries and purple harnesses. The Lake was rough and the wind was strong so it was a fast drift. Five Walleye totaled 130 inches of fish. There were some other big catchs in the same area. Today the area surrender a 27 3/4 incher. The big ones are out there and deep.
Fished North of West Sister on Sunday and caught 5 walleye that averaged 20-22 inches. All are nice fish. 4 of the 5 were caught on gold eries.
Started drifting a little south of Stoney Point Sat morning had to use troller get 1mph caught biggest Sheep of my life, so big it bent nice St Croix rod 180, thought I was gonna break it. Later in afternoon took a 22 incher on scorpion Shrimp and another 22 incher on brass blade/beads drifting at 1.5 mph on the way back to Sterling St Park it was like the Deadliest Catch, thought we might go for a swim. Sun was dead, only caught 1 a 14 1/2 incher, tried all the hardware. The nice cleaning station at the park didn't have any business. Saw tree trunks in the water as I was coming in, Spoontang is right, should clear up quick as long as weather is good.