May 2009 Western Lake Erie Fishing Reports

[Russ Hunsaker]

Tried drifting the deeper water off of the SW corner of Kelley's Island, the graph was full of fish but we couldn't get anything going. Got 1 walleye on first cast and that was it. We fished for 3.5 hours and never boated another fish, not even a sheepshead. Seen a few fish netted but not many. The water was pretty dirty all the way out and was still dirty where we fished. We heard one guy on the radio that was 3 away from their limit but no idea how long they were fishing. They must have been close because their signal was super clear.

Heard of a good bite going 1 mile off of Crane Creek but with 2'-3' waves we didn't feel like running the 10+ miles on one un-substantiated report.

We had been getting good numbers off of Starve Island Shoal jigging the past couple of weeks but that is over. I have no idea where the fish have moved to.

Because of the lack of reports it looks like no one knows where the walleyes have moved to.

Russ

[ditchdigger89]

fished off kelly's island between the first and second can all week got two man limit on sun. mon ,tues, but only got 7 on wendays and 10 on thurdays. We used bottom bouncers with crawlers. different colors all week, but purple seem best for me. The fish are spread out, didn't have a double the whole time.the white perch are a real pain though, they are as pesty as ever (bring lots of worms)most fish were in the 3#-4# range with a couple of 7#s

[rscotfish]

limits on tuesday no we were short had 20 fish that weighed 50 pounds purple weapons gold pink harnesses on bottom bouncers one guy wanted to go in so we left. wensday it was a little tuff got 16 for 4 guys mostly on pink purple and gold harnesses on bottom bouncers 42 pounds. thursday limit 3 guys 44 pounds pink is hot on bottom bouncers caught some on gold weapons small blade playing swing ran into them and got 6 in ten minutes on pink harnesses on bottom bouncers it was 2-3s and had a 4 ounce bottom bouncers on the side that goes under the boat let it down to bottom and watch it 136 pounds in 3 days .started in 19 ft of water off wards and drift out to 22 - 23 ft short drifts but when it got a little rough we would drift longer 3 miles great 3 days hope they stay there we would be fishing all by our selfs but i called some buddys in and they caught fish 2

[waterdog]

A great day for fishing!
Sheephead~alot.....there fun to catch...for a while.
6 JUMBO perch 12"ers
15 White Perch (they like to steal your nightcrawlers)
1 catfish
1 eye
1 White bass
We were using botom bouncers in 28 fow not far from Niagra.
We caught the Jumbo perch on a botom bouncer with a minow and no bling, just a perch hook.
The eye was caught on a yellow~green worm harness.

[yohno241]

may 21 caught 1 26 inch muskie 2 white bass 2 sheephead and 5 nice walleyes off luna pier in 14 ft after 7:00 pm trolling with wiggle warts. great evening. returned the muskie bass and sh-thead to the lake put the boat away and was on the highway home before dark

[PZeiler]

Saturday between 9:00 and 1:30. Caught 20 walleye 1 1/2 miles northwest of west sister. Almost no wind. Casting gold blades on weapons or perch colored weight forwards. A lot of boats and a lot of trollers. Stay away from the boats and we caught fish.

[BigWally]

fished flat rock.no wind so we pulled worm harnesses with bottom bouncers with the kicker motor.caught a three man limit plus some by noon.had 4 over 5 lbs.one 29 and 1/2 inch 9.2 lbs.you gotta love lake erie