Well another goose egg today. Jigged out of turtle creek. Locust reef. Cone reef and trolled around niaggra reef. Saw one net the whole day. This just hasnt been my spring
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Well another goose egg today. Jigged out of turtle creek. Locust reef. Cone reef and trolled around niaggra reef. Saw one net the whole day. This just hasnt been my spring
HAppy Hooker is reporting quick limits this morning right out in front in 7-9ft of water . Always usually very reliable reports from them .
Happy Hooker must have smoked some happy weed before he posted that one! We headed out of Turtle at 8:30 am and did not see any boats coming in with limits. (Guess they were already in....) We cruised out the channel and it looked like invasion of Normandy on the horizon. Game on I thought! Wrong!Quote:
Originally Posted by fishhead315
Several hundred boats out there. We fished from 8:30 to 2:30, in pack, edge of pack, out of pack. We were most always in sight of a bunch of boats, including more than a dozen charters full of 5-6 guys, and I never once saw a net go in the water! Not one single net! Everyone, including the charters, was constantly moving, all over looking for fish.
As for us - 3 of us jigged from 7 feet out to 14 feet....from out front Turtle to way down past Besse tower....tried all colors and depths. In pack and off on our lonesome. We caught 3 nice walleye (26+) and caught all 3 within 5 minutes soon after lunch, first two on a double! Radio sounded same and people I talked with at dock had similar experience.
It might have helped if the shiners I bought at Hookers had had some size....
Maybe the trollers did better. You didn't miss a jig bite today.... Still, nice day to be on the water after weather we have had.
we had the same results didn't see many nets, I stopped at fishermans warf and bought a few items and they said their head boat limited early today just out front.
Fishing by 6:30. Any where from 8 to 14 feet of water. From Crane Creek to in front of tower. 3 fish on in 6 hours. Caught 2 lost one at boat. Don't know where Happy Hooker got their info. Cleaned fish at Turtle Creek and we were the only ones cleaning and there were no fish in the gut pile other than what we put in there. What we did catch were on purple jigs. Perfect perch minnows !!
If this helps anyWeekendwarrior, you are not alone.Quote:
Originally Posted by weekendwarrior
I fished from about 10:30 to 3:00 in the same areas. Only marked three in about 11ft, and only saw two in the nets. Myself, I lost one barely on the trailer hook at the boat.
I'm starting to have my doubts on these reports as well. Dave reports bite on, while both turtles are not hearing anything..#4itty spring so far...Hope this rut ends soon...
Isn't it funny how good the fishing is when you are trying to sell bait or fill open spots on a charter boat???
The closest thing I had to a "bite" all day was when I was netting buddies walleye (1 of only 3 all day) and another walleye came in chasing it and almost dived into the landing net! Just missed him! Maybe I was using wrong bait...should have been fishing with large walleyes.....
I'll be there thursday morning, think you guys can have that mud cleaned out by then-lol
I heard they dredged turtle Creek and its good to go?
Shallowest I had through there yesterday (out past the gas dock) was a stretch reading 3.6 - 3.9 feet. Two weeks ago Sunday I had 2.6 - 2.8 readings through same area. Having said that, it did look like water was up at my floating Turtle dock in the marina too. Don't know if it was that or dredging, but yes, yesterday was better than it has been.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wallin
Thanks, 4 day trip is going to do me good just to get on the water, fish will be a bonus, can't wait and thanks.
Same results today. One walleye for 6 hours of fishing. In front of Wild Wings Turtle Creek area. Radio reports all stateing 1 to 2 fish or nothing. In close to out to 14 feet. Asked lady at HH about report and she said they had 3 boats come in about 10 AM with limits. Blade baits. Right out front. I always did say the bait stores never say they are NOT biting.
Read it on the internet, Must be true. THEY CAN'T PUT ANYTHING ON THE INTERNET THAT'S NOT TRUE!!!!!:D
Hey fellas, in defense of us folks at Dreamcatcher Fishing Bait & Tackle, I will honestly tell you good days and bad. No sense wasting your time and hard earned $$ to not produce fish. We are simple people with values just ask and Ill tell ya straight up. Check out my report at dreamcatcherfishing.com or see FISHon205 report from today. He's a regular customer, and true friend and he put fish in the box today nothing to hide no reason to sell ya on the BS, every have any ??'s whether it's worth your time or not email text or call, I'll give it to ya straight up. Also we have pretty good size shiners if yall need them. Tight lines and dont hesitate to ask. Good luck fellas hope to hear from ya!!
I went out at 6:30 caught one right away well west of the pack thought it was going to be a good day nope. Fished 5 more hours got three more. The bite was super light. We lost six and the ones we did catch fell off the hook in the net. We were just jigging 6 inch pops off the bottom pretty slow motion for the ones we did catch. I like to use my ultra light when there biting like this. Anyway hopefully it gets better but quick limits today I highly doubt. Also I get Fridays Saturday and Sundays off work now so if anybody wants to go out I'm available Friday and Saturday. Pm me . Maybe trolling Friday.good luck all.
Got out at 2:30. Fished till 7. 4 guys and we got our limit. We were out in front of Crane Creek in 10-15 fow. Picked up a couple each drift. Picked & Poked at them. Maybe we got lucky. No luck today 4/27. Only got 4 today, but we caught 12 Sheepshead. Don't like seeing that
Fished from 1pm to 5pm with 3 guys only got 3 lots of bites today just was not able to hook up with more fish saw a few nets in the water around us. we fished right out front of lake front marina 14 to 16 ft
Got out this morning for the first trip of the year. On the water by 6:30 and headed out of Wild Wings. OMG I have never seen so many boats on the lake! Tried in close in front of the channel, nothing. Moved over in front of Davis Besse in 12' of water, nothing. Moved out to Locust Reef, moved to Cone Reef, got 1. Seen a pack of boats out by A-Can and my buddy wanted to run out, there must have been 50 charter boats in the pack. Water depth 25' and did the best we did all day with 5 to finish the day with 7, 3 of which barely made 15". I have no idea why spawning walleye were in 25' of water with a sand bottom. The water was dirty in close and then cleared up nicely and then got dirty again in the 25' area. All of the fish we caught with the exception of one were caught in dirty water.
Listened to many guys on the radio that had one or two walleye and several that had none. I expected the walleye's to be actively spawning and my usual spring hot spots would produce a limit. Strange thing that no walleye were caught on a jib tipped with a minnow, everyone of them were caught on a bare jig.
I am curious to hear if anyone had a good day this morning.
Russ
we fun fished Thursday with charter buddy only got 5. Friday went out with other buddy got 7 4 people crane creek turtle creek 8 ft to 16 ft got them on purple no minnows and got some on black Saturday went out with different buddy got 6 4 guys we tried all different colors and weights. some charters got limits Friday but the average was around 12 - 15 fish 8 guys long days the fish we did catch were very nice 24-27 inches I also noticed the fish had heavy red meat or mud lines I cut a lot of meat away even after we zippered them. Saturday we saw all the boats move out to 17 ft so we ran out there nothing then we saw a pack of boats out farther we ran out there 21 ft of water 1 fish. ran back in shallow off wards 10 ft of water 1 boat there saw him net 2 and leave we got 1 more there. great days on the water but expensive fillets but had new pole felt good to say fish on