We stayed around Starve the whole day today. Got a late start as friends were driving up from Ashtabula area and didn't get to the islands until 10 or so, by the time they got fishing licenses, bait, and ice, we didn't get out untill 11 or 11:30. 5 of us in the boat casting and drifting.

Hi-way bait has some sort of new worm harnass they are selling, that combines a fairly normal blade with a little rubber multi-colored squid jig in line just below the spinner, right above the hooks. The idea was to make something that looked fairly like a crankbait for the casters. I was a little skeptical but it worked a treat. But, regular hammered gold blades with red beads worked almost as well. Most of the fish were real tight to the bottom in 25 to 30 fow, just north to north east of Starve Island Reef.

I'll date myself here with the wayback machine. For the hell of it I tried casting a Tom's lure (similar to any other forward weight lure) in chartreuse/yellow with a silver and yellow blade. Honestly it did very well.

In 6 hours we caught 60 fish, of which 17 were keepers. Most of the throw backs were right at 14", most of the keepers were 19-22 inches with one 25 incher thrown in, and 2 of the little guys that just cleared 15". We also got about a dozen decent sized perch and the usual collection of white perch and sheephead, but not too many.

Good day.