Walleye fishing report for islands area 8/15/09.

Left Bass Haven Marina on East Harbor this morning and headed west towards Green Island. Not much wind but a lot of boat wakes made for a rough ride. Lots of boats fishing for perch on the NE side of Green so I went west of Green to drift for walleye. Drifted about an hour and only had one bite so I moved north to the west side of Rattlesnake. Picked up one small walleye about 17" in 45mins so I picked up and moved to West Reef on the west side of North Bass. Picked up one more small walleye and a couple of huge sheephead. Moved all around the reef area trying to find fish but no more walleye. Moved to the north side of North Bass Island where there was about 25 boats. Picked up another small walleye but lost it at the boat, didn't matter because I wasn't keeping them anyway.

Fished for a total of 5 hours and had 3 small walleye to show for it. Filled the boat up at the marina and spent $111 on fuel the last two trips out and nothing to show for it. I've never had this much trouble finding walleye, EVER. Listening to the radio it was the same story for most boats, seemed like everyone had picked up 1 or 2 walleye but a lot of complaining going on.

I hate trolling but it seems like that is the only way to catch walleye this year. I keep reading the fishing reports and I head right to the areas that people have reported good catches and I can't get $hit! I'm really getting sick of wasting my time, money, and effort for nothing. I would even be happy to get into a school of sheephead if you can believe that.

Taking out some friends tomorrow and if it's the same story I'm done until mid September.

Russ

try crane creek in 16 to 20 feet of water, early morning or late afternoon,
bottom bouncers right on bottom, pink blade worm harness,if there is waves
or crank baits trolling if its calm, not much casting, lots of perch in this area two, been good for a month now, lots of other fish in area also. steady action.

Russ-

A large part of your issues finding fish is your reading of these reports. It is much like radio fishing, not with a penny unless it is from trusted sources. Most of what these guys post is BS. I fish the lake 2 to 4 times a week, I know where the fish are at, most of what you read is inaccurate. It has been tough this year due to many factors. Bottom line, most of the year fish are not where they should be. The tried and true spots for the most part have not produce as in the past. Don't believe all of these trollers they do not limit everytime out. You can still fish the right way, drift and cast, and catch walleye. Isn't pink panties what you woman should have on not what you catch walleye on?

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Originally Posted by walleyewacker

Russ-

A large part of your issues finding fish is your reading of these reports. It is much like radio fishing, not with a penny unless it is from trusted sources. Most of what these guys post is BS. I fish the lake 2 to 4 times a week, I know where the fish are at, most of what you read is inaccurate. It has been tough this year due to many factors. Bottom line, most of the year fish are not where they should be. The tried and true spots for the most part have not produce as in the past. Don't believe all of these trollers they do not limit everytime out. You can still fish the right way, drift and cast, and catch walleye. Isn't pink panties what you woman should have on not what you catch walleye on?

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I normally don't engage in peeing contests with skunks because of the foul smell, but here goes!!!!

I have been the only person who has made reference to Pink Panties in any recent posts on this site. I therefore feel you have singled me out as to being untruthful and would like to start one of your personal attacks on me. If you have an issue with the Pink Panties color Jr.Streak spoons take it up with Wolverine Tackle Co. as they are the ones who named them and market them. I only post what I use for bait(lures) in my reports. I try to post GPS numbers if there are no easy reference points to relate to such as Niagra and D-Can ect..
Who are you to talk about B.S. you have even admitted to bending the truth in one of your past posts, you have repeatedly attacked other members on their spelling ability in your previous post even though some of YOUR OWN spelling is less than perfect. I don 't know you and I don't care to know you as your previous posts have more than defined your inferior personality. The numbers that I posted in an earlier post were the numbers for the area near Northwest Reef which by the way is North West of North Bass Island not Rattlesnake Island. In the future I hope all the other members of this site would read your previous posts and see the amount of negative and personal attacks on other members that you have caried out before they consider anything that you might want them to believe let alone use for location or programs. That is, if you ever do post somthing that contains usable truthful information as to locations and programs and not critical of those who do post truthful information. I am not angry with you but I do feel sorry for you. Subject closed!
Good Day:
Wakina

Very well said!

Are the fish moving to shallower water ?

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Originally Posted by MBLMIKE

Are the fish moving to shallower water ?

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moving east and going very where

spoony go to bragging board on lake erie walleye .com and check out the 10lbder i got on the charter we went on out of astabula ohio it will be top right

Walleye report first.

The larger fish have moved over toward the Huron area and as fare east as the lorain area. As fore us over here east of Clev. we're in a dead zone all the way to the state line. Where did the fish go this year?????? I'ts anyones guess. I've fished all the way from the shore line to the US Border. And NOTHING. Charters are dieing at the dock,No fisherman, No fish,No funds. The only good news has been fron the sand bar area. And the guys that have fished this area. They same the numbers have grown. The guys from Huron say the same thing.



As for slamming us that "TROLL" we catch fish all the time on lures such as pink panties and monkey puke. Just becuase you live in shallow water, (western lake erie) Not all of us do. And your foolish idea's that casting and drifting is the only way of fill a cooler is wrong. I do what ever it takes to fill the cooler. ANd if that means casting, well so be it.


I don't like the idea of spending hundreds of $$ on $$. But that is the sport we have choosen. And if thats not fitting into your budget, Then take up GOLF. I'm sure you'll get to hit as many balls for your $$ as you want.

But some how I bet you'll be *****'in about lost balls in some "GOLF chat room somewhere.

stop fighting and tell me where to find the jumbo perch and ill tell you where the walleye are. there is fish off crane creek walleye 12 18 ft and perch 20-22 ft trollers are doing better then casters lots of trollers getting limits we been perching and getting limits usally 4 hours 4 guys lots of 7 inch fish we weed them out and watch the trollers net fish right by us ill try the bottom bouncers we killed them there this spring late may with pink harnesses on 4 ounce bouncers on the lee way side of the boat caught 100 in 3 days but that was then what i want is 9-13 inch perch on the western basin seems like last year we caught so many small ones i was saying man next year will be great but they are just as small we must be the hatchery on this end of the lake where is the jumbos last time out 4 man limit 18 pounds not that great but there is fish in the cooler

last weekend fished out west of north bass,there were boats trolling and boats perching...caught a four man limit in as many hours.lots of nice ones.at least one limit between 9 and 12 inches

fish sat aug. 15, 30 ft. water 1/2 mile northwest of green island, 12 man limit
of perch 63 lbs. 7.5 to 13 inch perch, right on bottom, perch cleaned and wieghed at butch and denneys if any non belivers. maney witness.

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Originally Posted by wayne johnson

fish sat aug. 15, 30 ft. water 1/2 mile northwest of green island, 12 man limit
of perch 63 lbs. 7.5 to 13 inch perch, right on bottom, perch cleaned and wieghed at butch and denneys if any non belivers. maney witness.

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Wayne-

12 man limit equals, if my math is correct, 300 perch. 63 lbs for 300 perch means you had 6 to 8 inch perch, not 7.5 to 13 inch perch. A decent cooler of perch will average 3 to a pound this time of year and latter it will be about 2.5 fish per pound. The number of fish is beliveable, not the size for the weight you say you had. Or you might want the cleaners to check the accuracy of their scales.

Since when are you a perchwacker?.....You allstar you.

Trolling works great if there is no drift. I work on Sara-J charters out of Lorain. We are currently fishing along the canadian border. It has been on fire trolling and catching limits everyday. I would think that the water temp around the islands might be a little high for walleye this time of year. There is a huge school of fish outside of Lorain. Unfortunately you have to run 18 mile to get them. It would probably be about a 30 mile run for you. But I know the casters are doing great out there too. If you are loking to learn how to troll give me a call I will try to help you out. Captain Kray 216 346 5555

Went out sat with a bunch of friends on a head boat, not the best location to fish . but with a bunch of kids and wives it was a blast, the weather was very strange for August, big waves , cold wind , rain .at times we were the only boat in site, there were at least 5 to 7 funnel clouds we observed they were closer to shore but there was this one realy big one it formed a cone and came down almost to the ground with rotation and a very defined cone , our captain tried to keep every one calm by claiming he sees these all the time, but when he stopped to take pictures and mutered on his cell phone that he had never seen one this big I knew different , anyway we caught a mixed cooler of fish nothing to brag about here , but we had an exciting trip none the less. any one else out on Sat ?

guess I'm glad I decided to stay home.would be kind of cool to see though

the facts about are perch are true, 300 perch , 63 lbs, captain would not let
us keep anything under 7.5 largest was 13 inches, perch were everything inbetween, as far as the cleaners thats the lbs. he charged us for, as for every one else catches we were the largest to be brought into the store in weeks, everyone are bringing in minnows this year, I agree with you last
years lb, per fish were much better, we were getting the 2 to 3 fish per lb.
but even at drawbridge dock, this catch rasied alot of eyebrows, just reporting true report to help everyone out, even the charters from anchor point way are running to the islands for just avg, size fish.

Hi all, first post here. Sorry to see all the bickering. There is good walleye fishing down here in the Huron to lorain area. Walleye in shallow water from Cranberry creek to the castle and again up on and east of the sand bar. Midle lat lon = 34 to 36 north and 32 to 35 west is good.

Perch all over in front of huron river, vermillion river and up on top of the sand bar.

Wayne-

What you are saying is that each limit weighed basically 5 poiunds. That is 5 fish per pound. Again 63 pounds is believable not the size. 5 fish per pound means a lot of 7inch or less perch being kept, not 7.5 and better. There is nothing wrong with keeping small perch, just don't lie about it. You might get everyone else on here to "take the bait" but not me. You caught a bunch of little perch and want to brag about it and someone called you out. Everyone at drawbridge were looking at your catch in disbelief, they couldn't believe you kept some many small perch. If guys like you would be more selective, our perch would attain a larger average size. You would keep 13 inch walleye if the law would allow. Don't brag about little fish, unless you are a 10 year old kid.

you can say anything you want, but i've been fishing the lake since 1963, have caught a lot more fish then you will ever catch, eaeach captain has his own size limit, on drawbrige its 7.5 and larger, on other captains it 8.5 and larger, on our person boat it 9 inch or larger for perch and 18 inches or larger
for walleyes, and we have no problem filling our freezer with our standards,
you just have to fish a little harder, and spend a little more on gas were the bigger ones live, any time you want to find out were real fish live let me know, and far as clean station goes, 5 perch per lb is avg, 2 fish per lb. are
10 to 12 inch fish, I KNOW I won a perch tour last year, 10 perch 9.25 lbs
and the fish were 11 to 13 inch on cert. scale. all caught in the western basin
behined west sister, 100 perch that day wiegh 47lbs.

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Wayne-

What you are saying is that each limit weighed basically 5 poiunds. That is 5 fish per pound. Again 63 pounds is believable not the size. 5 fish per pound means a lot of 7inch or less perch being kept, not 7.5 and better. There is nothing wrong with keeping small perch, just don't lie about it. You might get everyone else on here to "take the bait" but not me. You caught a bunch of little perch and want to brag about it and someone called you out. Everyone at drawbridge were looking at your catch in disbelief, they couldn't believe you kept some many small perch. If guys like you would be more selective, our perch would attain a larger average size. You would keep 13 inch walleye if the law would allow. Don't brag about little fish, unless you are a 10 year old kid.

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Wacker needs to stop submitting his bs here . He stopped for a while after his walleye bs this spring. Now its his bs knowledge of perch. He must think he is a fish scientist for constant bs he writes about. Lake Erie captains , most have fished the lake for MANY years a not many bring in stories like his. He must have a fish stretching board on his row boat to talk like a hillbilly story teller form the hills. Yall aint gona blev this, he says.
His stories of locations and sizes will never add up to more the bs it that it smells of.
He knows all and tells all. I fished Monday in 4 normally great spots for perch and took 7 to 10.5 inch fish. Did not get a limit. Probably boated 300 perch but the size for two thirds of them did not make the grade for charter fish.
Most fish we kept averaged 7.5 inch. Warm water holds the larger perch way off in deeper water than the western basin holds till the water starts cooling off in a month. I have fished Erie for 33 years and thats the way it has always been. Whats changed since the 70's hay days. Water clearity, commercial fishing, baitfish, are the main ones. The days of stuffed coolers of back then are still hopeful in my mind but until that time we catch what the lake gives up to us each day we fish. Some days good and some days not.
The weather patterns , the moon phase, wind and currents. Most do , and go to what they remember the did from the last trip or last year or 10 years ago and it sometimes works out. Remember that fishing is fishing and its not a job and nowbody likes a guy that the talks and thinks hes is bragging about what he does or does not do on the lake we love. This site is for honest advice and maybe tell your spots because this lake will be here for many years along with the fish. Stop your bs and let the rest of us tell our true stories to help the true fisherman catch some fish. Enough said. GO AWAY

The wt (63#) brings to mind a post that I made on 08/13/2009 about a limit of perch that started near Green and was finished near C-can. My son and I caught 50 perch that weighed 11#s at the cleaners. We had a mixed bag of 7.5" to 12.75" perch. Majority were in the 8" range of perch. Multiply 11 x 6 and you get 66#s live wt. It is totally probable that Wayne Johnson's catch and claim of 63#s is true. I don't question his posted wt. or his integrity on this matter. I think time would be better served by posting reports and not attacking other members for trying to help fellow members out. Thank you Wayne for the report on your perch trip I am sure that it is well appreciated by most members of this site.
Wakina:

Again, honestly measure your fish. 5 fish pound equals 7 inch perch period. I could go out and average that with no sort what so ever. You are catching little perch and convincing yourselves they are bigger. Get to 3 fish per pound and you have decent fish. Oh....I forgot Wayne won a perch tourney last year.....WOW I guess he knows all about fishing. Who was the tourney against, they other drunk hillbillies in your trailer park? All of you need to get real!! How pathetic, you guys come on here looking for "good intel". Give me a break. Good fishermen are not on here telling where the bite is. If any good info is put on here, by the time someone goes fishing again it is a week old. Does anyone think the fish would move by then????? No wonder most of you float around out there not catching anything. Again 300 perch that weigh 63 pound average 7 inches PERIOD.

I have a suggestion Lets hold a perch derby Wakina vs Walleye Whacker and have them weighed on the same scales, also lets have at least two other members of this forum present to measure the perch to determine how many they avg. per pound and verify the wt. per limit of 25. The results of that weigh-in will be final. How about it Walleye Whacker I'm willing to put my honor where my key board is how about you.

for your information wacker, the tour I was againist was againist mostly western basin charter captains, and was wieghed by the captains each year
in takes this size perch to win. I give you a hint we are fisshing 18 miles out
of anchor point right near the line, any experience captain will know exacly were we fish and the sizes that come out of there all the time, as far as lb. a
perch in shallow water is usually very skinny and wiegh's less per lb. the deep
water perch are most more meater and weigh more per lb. perch that come from vermillion weigh more perch than western basin, same is thru about perch from counect area, or twas area, they just are bigger around per inch
of size.

Went out this afternoon about 4p and was planning on fishing Gull Shoal, on the way out I was running the west side of Kelley's in about 25' of water and my graph was filled with fish. I decided to make a few casts to see if I could catch anything. To my surprise my first cast was a 17" walleye! I threw him back in and casted again, 3 walleyes on 4 casts! I kept one 22" walleye the others were 18" or smaller so I threw them back. The wind was out of the WSW and was blowing me towards the island but I continued to fish. I kept catching walleyes all the way until I got to about 12' of water.

I ended up catching probably 20 walleyes and kept my limit of 6 with the biggest being a 26". I was fishing just north of the stone loading pier starting in 25' of water and drifting until I was in about 12'. Most of the fish were coming in the 20' - 23' range. I also caught several catfish, but only 3 sheepsheads. I was using a 1/2oz chartruese and orange Parrish Pea, casting and counting down to about a 10 count.

It was nice to actually get on some fish for a change, I had a blast even though I was alone. I will be heading back there tomorrow afternoon again.

Russ

4 guys 21 pounds 22 ft of water off wards canal we fished from 10.30 till 5 sorted all day we would catch 5-1 keepers 8 inch average lots of 7 inch fish biggest 10 inches tossed back a lot of fish just 2 sheephead and a dozen white perch great day on the lake

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Originally Posted by wayne johnson

for your information wacker, the tour I was againist was againist mostly western basin charter captains, and was wieghed by the captains each year
in takes this size perch to win. I give you a hint we are fisshing 18 miles out
of anchor point right near the line, any experience captain will know exacly were we fish and the sizes that come out of there all the time, as far as lb. a
perch in shallow water is usually very skinny and wiegh's less per lb. the deep
water perch are most more meater and weigh more per lb. perch that come from vermillion weigh more perch than western basin, same is thru about perch from counect area, or twas area, they just are bigger around per inch
of size.

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Wayne-

I find your reasoning ammusing. "Deep water perch are more meater" Are you that stupid? Out fishing a charter captain, especially perch, is no acheivemen. Plus if you have to go 18 miles to catch perch, that really shows stupidity. Any time you want a perch fish off let me know. You are just upset that you brought in 7 inch perch and want to pass them off as 7.5 to 11 inchers and some one called you out on your lie. Make no mistake, there is nothing wrong about bringing in a limit of perch that size, I have many times. Somedays that is just what you catch no matter where you go, I just didn't lie about it. More meater, that might be the best one I have heard.

when is it going to be the best time to start catching walleye nice size,thanks

wacker say what you want, I dodn't know how much different area's you fish, but
the perch we catch at twas mich, sualt marie mich, vermillion in ohio or coneant in ohio are twice as fat and wiegh more than the western basin
perch, for the same size perch. as far as were I run that a personel choice, its a honey hole that only
a few fish, that my choice. I just report what I catch and lbs printed on the
weigh in ticket. Don't realy care just trying to help out others who aren't getting fish.

Haha, this thread is a joke!

I thought for a second that you had to be 8 years old or younger to reply to it!

Just kidding, relax :)

You are the first one on this site who I have seen is listed as a member ? all others are listed as monitor first few posts ,

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You are the first one on this site who I have seen is listed as a member ? all others are listed as monitor first few posts ,

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I have no clue what is up with that. I gues that I'm just cool like that :cool:

U the man :cool: