Lake Erie rookie looking for help!!

[Centralohio112]

Ok friends now that it's less then a week away, we can you give me an idea of what to expect. Sounds like beautiful weather so my boat should be able to get me where the fish are biting. Any new advise would be appreciated. What hotel to stay at reasonably priced maybe even a place for boys to swim, boat ramp to use, place for bait, where to get perch cleaned at. Again I just want to have a good experience with my boys who love fishing

[Henry]

If the water is a bit too rough on the lake, you can always switch to fishing the bay for channel cats.

[pimplepounder]

The good old lake is full of cats for sure.... I catch them all over, but around mid June I was North of Kellys close to the border casting a dropshot with rubber. I found a school of channel cats and every cast for over 20 minutes I caught one that was close to 4-6 pounds id say. I was looking for smallies, but found them, they were beautiful healthy fish.

I catch them everywhere with everything. If they taste good ??? ( slimey) I refuse to net them cause they cover your net with slime.
man you can fill your freezer so fast..

[Madd Matt]

Ok friends now that it's less then a week away, we can you give me an idea of what to expect. Sounds like beautiful weather so my boat should be able to get me where the fish are biting. Any new advise would be appreciated. What hotel to stay at reasonably priced maybe even a place for boys to swim, boat ramp to use, place for bait, where to get perch cleaned at. Again I just want to have a good experience with my boys who love fishing

I assume that by now you found a hotel. Mazuricks is a good ramp and you can access pretty much all of the activity from there. We clean our own fish, but if you post a new topic in here with that question then you will get a lot of info. Hi-Way bait is my "go to" for most bait. They don't have soft craws though, so for that I go to Rickards.

Post in here tonight if you get this and let us know how you did today.

-Matt