Walleye staying in South Passage area

[PatSea]

I find it interesting that the large school of walleye seem to be staying in the South Passage area from Mouse over to Starve Island area and have been there for 2 to 3 weeks at least. They don't seem to be moving NE into the area between Perry's monument and Kelley's island. It seems like other years by now we would be fishing up in that area or even further NE off the NW corner of Kelleys. I know, it's tough to figure out the migration patterns. Any comments?

[Madd Matt]

Yep... It's a parking lot out there. Here are a couple screen shots of the sonar from yesterday (Friday night around 7:00 pm). The screen looked like that for well over .75 miles North & South, and over a half mile wide (that is all the wider I went). Really nice pod of fish in there and willing to bite. If you present it right in front of them. We ran Bandits for over an hour through them without a single hit, then put 4 worm harnesses out on 40 TT 35' back, and started catching right away... Earlier in the day boats were catching them on Bandits... Go figure!

-Matt

[West Basin]

I know almost everyone here wants to know the answer to "where are the walleye and why." I will say this: The Western Basin of Lake Erie is not that big from the perspective of a walleye. They can swim a long distance in just a few hours just casually swimming along. So just because an area is hot for a few days or a week doesn't mean that's where all the walleye are. There are more there, but it's mostly that they are actively feeding. Just because you don't catch any doesn't mean they aren't there. They "turn on, turn off" as they will and we just don't understand much about why. Or at least those who may know have a case of walleye "lock jaw" about it. :-) The walleye population is very dynamic and very widespread. We don't understand a lot about their behavior, at least compared to what we don't know. They are never 'all in one place.' The key is finding an area that is holding fish and figuring out how to catch them that day. Sometime the "bite" lasts, sometimes it doesn't. If it isn't happening today it will soon. You just get out when you can and hope you hit it on a good day.

[pollock-a-lope]

We pulled a bunch of nice ones out of the ferry lanes back on April 17th & 18 th. Coming back out in 3 days!! Maybe we can pick up right where we left off!

Thanks for the post!

Lope!

[3 Z's]

We pulled a bunch of nice ones out of the ferry lanes back on April 17th & 18 th. Coming back out in 3 days!! Maybe we can pick up right where we left off!

Thanks for the post!

Lope!

We did well in the Ferry Lanes last Thursday afternoon/evening. Harnesses on bottom bouncers. Storms came through Thursday evening and we couldn't get them going on Friday. Still lots of marks there though.

[itsbob]

fished same area Friday evening.Caught a double on bandits at 70 and 60 and that was it for bandits.Had harnesses on other side and switched over to all bandits after double.Caught one on worm harness on bottom bouncer going about 1.3sog.went 3 for 3 from 2:30-7:00pm.