Quote Originally Posted by itsbob View Post
The reason nobody has been fishing Canada yet,has been the fishing has been so good in American waters,no need to burn Expensive gas.Canada also has been closed to fish the past two seasons due to pandemic.We have recently got our canadian liscences and looking foward to fishing up there soon.
Back in the day when we would only cast and mostly fish west of the bass islands,we would fish for walleye through the end of July and switch over to perch the first of August.There were also good numbers of perch back then though.
About 15yrs ago i started fishing with a guy who enjoyed casting for walleye on the rocks in canadian waters.We would target the east side of Pelee,beginning in June and did very well catching nice fish.Very few boats and we would catch well through August some years.Then the emerald shiners crashed and did not catch well on the rocks when there were no minnows there.
When the waters start to cool around the first couple weeks of Sept,the walleye start moving up onto the reefs to feed.By the third week of Sept,have done well casting on those reefs.Particulary,the easterly reefs.Our favorite was Gull Island Shoal.
We almost exclusively troll now,and we do need to head further East to catch our fish as the water warms.We have done well around the weather bouy the past two seasons.Thats about as far east as we go,since we do not trailor our boats.But with $6 gas,not sure how many of those runs we will be making this season.
I only cast I fish for eyes in WB until middle of August then it slows do to warm water. We then start fishing Canada not prior 2 years as it was shut down We primarily target structure around Hen island. Some days we are only ones around. Casting later in the year does require patients as it can be long time between fish especially on calmer days as you are not drifting much. Use you Fish finder & work the fish you find As Bob said as the water cools you can start catching eyes again late September through time to pull boat around the reef complexes. But Perchin is good September through time to pull boats so we do our fair share of that as well. Canada trips this year may be held to a minimum with $6.25 gas.