June 2009 Western Lake Erie Fishing Reports

[Walleye_Rick]

Actual Fishing Reports only please. Any post in this thread that is not a direct report of fishing activity will be deleted. We are creating an area where folks can easily scan actual fishing reports by date. We'll create a new sticky thread for each Month, May, June, July ....

[Jfish]

We went out Saturday Northwest of West Sister. It was way more the West way.

Set up 2 drifts and caught the 12 by 10:30 and we were out there at about 6am.

Using worm harnesses and bottom bouncers. Most were on the bottom or around 10 feet above or so. One pig was caught on a bouncer. We stuck around another half hour and caught 2 more for fun.

Then Sunday went out in the afternoon to the same area and only caught 2. That Northeast Sat. night and Sun. morning.

Why is the wind NORTHEAST so much???????

[PKMc]

We did the exact same thing the exact same day and had similar results. We hit the bottom bouncers more west than north of West Sister. Out there at 7:00 done at 11:00, 10 eyes in the box, 9 came on silver worm harnesses. All fish were 17" to 19".

[True Blue]

Met up with Spoontang around 1:00 at the marina. Started fishing north of North Bass island, west bound and circling back south between Rattlesnake and Niagra. We pulled spoons off down riggers and long lined crank baits. Fishing was slooooow. We caught three by around 7:00pm. I wanted to stick with the program as I wanted to see how to do this type of fishing. My wife finally convinced us to put out a worm harness off a board and shortly thereafter we caught a walleye; then another and another... Lake was choppy at first but by sunset had settled down and we had a nice run back to the dock. We only ended up with 11 in the boat one off at the back of the boat, one throw back, a couple sheep head and a few white bass. I believe the final count for walleye was spoons - 2, cranks - 3, and harness 6. We stuck with it and although we didn't limit we had a great time; as they say a bad day fishing is better than being at work! Thanks Spoontang!

[waterdog]

7am , We were out by Niagara reef in 29 fow, caught one eye right away, alot of sheephead, alot of white perch and some yellow perch. We moved to b-can and caught some more sheephead, but no eye's. We moved back to Niagara and anchored and caught about 25 Jumbo yellow perch. We caught the perch on a spreader with minows, they like the minows better than the night crawlers. The bigest was 13 inches! Anyway we caught the walleye on a red erie deerie with a night crawler. I heard on the cb channel some guys were doing good over by North Bass Island.
Anyway, it was a great day to be on the lake!

[waterdog]

Perch fishing at Niagara was great again. Took the wife and daughter and only fished for about 2 hours in 29 fow using spreader, minows and perch hooks and no bling. We caught 33 jumbo perch, the bigest was 12"er.
I just got tired of trying to find those eyes!

[jigsup]

caught 18 eyes north west of north bass drifted in 32 fow then lake died down started trolling spoons started hitting them right away

[wayne johnson]

trolled sat for 7 hrs, from north of west sister to middle sister line, 2 man limit,
and 48 throw backs of all sizes just trying to get trolling patern down, fish 1/4 mile inside of line by middle sister 2 casting 9 trolling 8 hrs on sunday , 4 men aboard very
tough fishing, graph finder full of walleyes for miles, just won't bite, every one
struggle sunday, boader patrol was monitoring the line in morning, all charters are in this area, 18.4 miles out from anchor pointe marina water
still murky out there about 4 ft. of visiblity.

[PZeiler]

Casting bite has been very slow for the past week. You can catch fish but you will spend a lot of time on the water. Best spot has been along border. gold blades.

If you want fish in the cooler, you will have to troll, Purple and chartruese stingers has been the ticket. 40 jets at 65 - 75 back.

For those of you with high quality fish finders, tune the sensitivity up and you can begin to see the swarms of bug larva starting to hatch out. They appear to be static clouds bottom to 5 feet up, but they are actually larva. This is why the casting bite has been very slow. Cut open any walleye you catch and the brown dirt slim is the larva the fish are eating. Another week to 10 days and the may flys will be coming to the surface in droves and the casting bite will be on again.

[troy1976]

fished 3 mi west of West Sister from 5-8 pm. 12 sheephead. 4 walleyes on burnt copper weapons. 1 was too small. Showed lots of fish on screen. 29 fow