Loraine 9/17-9/18

Fished out of Hot Waters 50' water... Dumping grounds to the Border and East side of the Vermilion Sandbar. Toughest fishing in 20 years. Fish were there....good bait balls too. Trolled everything accumulated over the last 2 decades. Managed 3 keepers 24" to 29". A lot of throwbacks 141/2". No junk fish. Fish were at 44' to 48' with lockjaw. I can only imagine what will happen in the next week or so if the wind, temperature and moon cooperate. Dipsy's took most of the fish.#1 80', #2 110' wolverine spoons gold backed with orange, Renosky minnow baits copper n gold. Tried all of the top names on the Dipsy's Bandits, Sprows, Husky jerks, Smithwick Rogues, Perfect 10's....to no avail. Fished the water column from 17' to 44'. Jets with spoons from 70 to 125'...small fish only. Two tired old men at the end of Saturday.

Going to give it a shot today 9/29. Beautiful weather... hope the fish cooperate.

9/29 Fished 10-2 pm today... midges were thick thankfully not biters...

North/NE of the Lorain dump approx 5 miles out. Fish on screen all day.

Ran yellow birds w bandits 180 w 2 0z / 140 2 0z / 100 no weight /80 no weight. zip results.

Got a hit on jet 30 .w a worm harness / pink purple...lost on retrieve ..small fish. ..

What worked was 3# setting dipsey... 85.... not fast or furious but got 2 24" and 2 17" ... total 12 lbs at Ardicks
2 24" were twins ...just shy of 5lb each so very pleased with todays trip

Mixed vegetable stinger spoon took 3 ... similar spoon got the other.

Beautiful Day on Lake Erie .

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Originally Posted by ltracey

Going to give it a shot today 9/29. Beautiful weather... hope the fish cooperate.

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Good luck hope it all works out i plan on going on Saturday keep us posted. Tight lines

Out by the dumping grounds and got 3 so far. Miggies are thick!

Ended up with just the 3. Fished on NE edge of dumping grounds. Caught a nice fish on first cast with 1 oz. Silver Big John, then nothing for an hour. Set my 2 Dipseys and before the second one was down, hooked a 6 pounder on a 20 year old ice blue Huskyjerk. Got a nice eater then lost a huge hog at the boat, all on the ice blue, then bugs finally drove me off. I was the only one to bring walleye into Baumhart cleaners yesterday.
Marked fish and clouds of bugs everywhere. Still heave algae in the water. Will it ever get right?

Fish moving west .. back to winter habitat.. Next 2 months will be the best Lorain fishing of the yr
Appreciate posts...

Fished yesterday on North edge of dumping grounds from 4-7 and got 3. All 3 were up high, above 20 feet. They had big bellies, full if shad. Lots of miggies.

Limit on 10/13 drifting just NE of the Lorain dumping grounds.

We also went out of Lorain yesterday, ended up with 9 in the cooler all pretty nice fish. Lost 3 or 4 nice ones at the boat and probably thru back 5 dinks.. Great day on the Lake !!!