May 2009 Western Lake Erie Fishing Reports

[Walleye_Rick]

Actual Fishing Reports only please. Any post in this thread that is not a direct report of fishing activity will be deleted. We are creating an area where folks can easily scan actual fishing reports by date. We'll create a new sticky thread for each Month, May, June, July ....

[wmyer]

We went out at 6 am yesterday. Fishing was slow. We hit several reefs, Kcan and a few other spots. We caught 20 fish total in 7 hours of fishing. It was one fish here one fish there all day. At the fish cleaning we had 60 pounds of fish for a 3 pound average. Not bad since everyone seemed to be struggling. We caught everything on purple hair jigs within 6" of the bottom. We probably caught at least 15 to 20 sheephead. The captain said it was the most sheephead he had seen caught this spring. By the way we had six guys fishing on the boat so not even close to a limit. I can't complain about our results based on wind change mid morning and cold front on Friday night.

Doug

[Whos_Yer Daddy]

Saturday afternoon

2 man limit of perch between Marblehead and East Harbor. 25 fow. Lots of spawned out females and tons of white bass.

Good Luck All !!!

[rscotfish]

saturday 1 walleye 2 smally one 19 inch 5 pounder. 6-8 sheephead and few white perch. sunday no walleye 1 smallmouth i sheephead we jiged mostly on saturday with minnows without minnows with worms. today i tried weapons jigs bladebaits with minnows and worms nothing we fished around turtle reef crane creek area was told they did better in bay but buddys went there today got skunked 5 boats out today 2 walleye between them very sad but better then being home with the heater on.question the one smallmouth the big one had black spots on it they were the size of say a nickle but were not round they were all different shapes i was not sure if it was a smallmouth the other ones did not have no spots any body ever got one with black spots let me know it was a female with eggs coming out. anybody doing better in the bay around the humps last saturday we got a 3 man limlit in a hour and a half

[walleyewacker]

Fished staright out of Wild Wings today, about 1.5 to 2 miles 16 to 20 feet of water. Very slow for us. We managed 6 between 2 of us. I am thinking the fish are in the transistion right now. None of the males we caught today were milking unlike last weekend when they all were, if that means anything. Tried bouncers this am when there was a little drift, only white perch. Been a tough spring with the weather this year.

Whos yer daddy- Any size to the perch over that way?

[Whos_Yer Daddy]

Wacker..

The last 2 weekends just about all fish averaged 10-13 " . Only threw a handfull back.All good solid fish with few eggs. Will be out there next weekend too. Look for the olive orab 18" tracker grizzley...lol

hope this helps and good luck

[PZeiler]

Fished Tuesday night for 2.5 hours in front of Turtle Creek. Fishing very spotty. 5 walleye on purple jigs and 1 walleye on a purple blade bottom bouncer tipped with 2 minnows

[waterdog]

My wife caught two walleye, one 16" and one 24" on a perch spreader in 20' of water fished just off the bottom, about a half mile south of E can. She also caught 6 white perch and 2 white bass. She caught one walleye on a night crawler and one on a minow.

I was using the purple jig tiped with a minow, and caught a sheephead. I tried other lures but the spreader my wife was using was doing great!

Well I am eating fish tonight because I brought my wife!

[Whos_Yer Daddy]

Fished friday evening between 8-11pm between Cranberry Creek and the Mansion.

5 walleye 19-22"
12-16' fow

Trolled hot-n-tots 150' back.

Chrome/black

Water is finally starting to warm up.....Good fishin's on it's way !!!

[MBLMIKE]

Another tough weekend to fish caught about 50 sheepshead friday eve in frt of davis bessie . went out to round reef and toussant sat am caught about 12 nice eyes 26 in or so but waves were tomuch had to head in around noon erie deries green white redorange bottombouncers worm harness ,purple hairjigs all caught fish another week or so wit some cooperation from wind and rain and the fishing will be better hang in there