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Went perch fishing Saturday out of Sterling. Had to be at least 50-60 trailers in the lot, only a few were perching, 90% were all trolling. Going back up this weekend for a combo trip. Has anybody heard any reports of what's happening around that area? Hot baits? Speed? Feet back?
The floating and submerged weeds were the biggest problem, 1.4 to 1.7 mph, 25 to 90 back, DDHJ, 800 RR. clown, yellowheaded wonderbread, purple perch, bare naked barbie. 19 to 23 f.o.w.
We did have to check for weeds pretty often. In the morning deep huskeyjerks in hot tiger was best and in the afternoon reef runners in clown took over. Best speed was 1.6,at 55fb. The screen was full of fish all day,but only caught 10.
I left sterling and went to colechester limited out on perch and there was more marks than I have ever seen on walleye and was supposed to bring my walleye equipment and was distracted when I picked up the boat by others than was in a hurry to go and forgot but I saw alot of walleye and perch being caught over there!!! going again wednesday will not forget this time
where is Colechester ..?
I belive it is in Canadian waters
yep canadian waters, Colechester reef is a large reef not very far south off the canadian shoreline, west of pelee by quite a bit. If you need some GPS numbers I can get them later when I'm home and post them.Quote:
Originally Posted by boatlimit
the area to fish is rather large and it is in canada. I don't have GPS coordinates at home but will record them when I get back wed if you want them
it takes 30 mins to get there from sterling if you travel at 27 mph so it isn't that long of a drive and you can get a one day canadian license w/o a sportsman card for 21.31
Just be aware, you can be stopped by the OPP in canadian waters, and by the U.S. border patrol on your way back. I don't fish canadian waters any more since some of the U.S. border patrol agents started being the Gestapo.
anyways, like I mentioned the reef is large, and the greason shoal is also right there.
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some numbers would be great ... I can see Sterling State Park from my living room... I'm still learning this awesome fishery and would love to give Canada a try. thanks so much for any and all info :)
Going to Canada to fish on Erie is not that big of deal. Do all the steps and have all the right stuff in your wallet. Dont forget to call them before you cross the line. Border patrol is doing their job, been stopped , followed then a friendly wave. Get all your lic online, know the rules and have fun. Its a great way to fish and I will keep going up there until the rules really tick me off. Its just when you touch land without a permit or passport that things change.
We found out a couple months later, we might have been part of one of their training excercises ( they never told us) 5 officers, 3 with hands on pistols the whole time, 2 boarded, they took our birth certificates, mi, canadian, and ohio lic's and drivers lic's. held us for 45 mins just inside the U.S. border we were coming back from fishing the east side of Pelee. After that we had to run to putnbay and use the video phone ( each one of us) to report back into U.S. customs, that took another 45 minutes, besides being real pricks the whole time. That was enough, plenty of fish in the U.S. waters. We were not the only ones that had problems. I know others who had simular problems. I believe it's depends on who you get any day, if the guys is gestopo your in for a bad time, if he's a nice guy just doing his job, your going to be fine. I just won't go thru that again, if they didn't have guns I would have pushed the one into the lake. He was that much of a jerk. We never touched land, contacted another boat, we were trolling and only one other boat drove past us that day. I've been fishing there for 20 some yrs.Quote:
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Originally Posted by ebijack
I've heard they can be and have been real jerks .. I guess the put a stop to allowing tournaments to fish there...? like you said Tom .. plenty of fish here in Michigan and Ohio waters ... I would like to experience fishing Peeley Island at least once
hey PKR 314 this is Jeff , Johnny K and I are going to Vermilion Wednesday with somebody you not know If you can get off work call me.
We are already set for Vermilion tomorrow leaving at 6AM, I will see if I can talk him into Friday at Sterling with you guys. I will call you tomorrow and let you know how we did.
do you or anybody else know where in area we can get Perch cleaned if we do well?
you might want to reconsider unless you are on a freighter because the waves fri are supposed to be 10 to 13 feet!!!! Being told the best fishing for walleye have been at night in 10 to 12 feet of water in brest bay puling jointed husky jerks green fire tiger 70 feet back 1.5 or less