Has anybody been able to find where the hungry fish are? Or are they just still too full from all the mayflies. And too hot…? Any help on location would be great thanks. Be safe out there.
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Has anybody been able to find where the hungry fish are? Or are they just still too full from all the mayflies. And too hot…? Any help on location would be great thanks. Be safe out there.
Lorain has been on fire. 42 to 55 FOW. On Wednesday, I worked a half day and took off to Lorain and had the boat in the water by 1230. We could hardly get all the rods set. Limited out in an hour and 45 minutes. Tru Trip 40's on the corners set at 57' with Stingers in Sir Walleye UV and Confusion caught the most. Ran bandits and Hit Sticks with 3oz. snap weights off of big boards. Everything caught. Fun fished and upgraded for the last 2 hours. Threw back at least 18 keeper eyes. Screaming hot out there, but so is the fishing! Catch Em Up.
I have had a couple days like that and it is a great problem when you can't keep poles in the water. Thanks for the report and keeping us up dated
Wow….slow day for us today. Looked promising in the morning. Ran all the way north to west side of North bass. South drift for the first 2 hours. Casting harnesses and dearies. 1 keeper, 3 lost at the boat, 3 shorts, some farm animals. Then the wind shut off. Nothing the rest of the day. Heard out east by the line is still hot? 22-25 miles from Catawba is a haul!!! But will do it if there are fish out there. Any help? Thanks.
This past friday and saturday i fished the east side of the dumping ground east of marblehead. 7 keepers on friday evening after a cpl hours of fishing. Sat. 2 person limit caught. Not a super fast bite, however we didnt fish the ideal times either. Spoons off of dipseys, and size was on the smaller end in general with a few nice ones mixed in.
Someone shared with me that the bite was in 26-30 fow out there.....is that about right?
I was in 38-42 FOW... However in shallower may have been better???
Didn’t see the message about the dumping grounds till now. But as luck would have it, that’s where we went this morning. Fought the wind and rain and had a 2 person limit by 1130. Casting. Sorted through a ton of smalls and farm animals.
Well, cmon yÂ’all! WhereÂ’s all the reports at?? Went back over to the north of cedar point again today. All drift and cast harnesses.
12 keepers from 0600-1200. Probably 20 small throwbacks, 10 lost at the boat, and a petting zoo amount of farm animals. Started getting too many lines tangled when the wind slowed and the clouds cleared up and called it a day. Anybody lease do any good anywhere?? Be safe.
Friday We did a midday drift with kids from 11-2 on the cedar point dump and same. 12 keepers and tons of shorts.
Nicely done Nick!! I forgot to text you that we were coming up! I thought about doing the dumping grounds because I heard it was pretty good bite over there but the wife didnt want to make the "detour" lol. We will be back up the 11-14 so hoping to get a little more fishing in with the little one, maybe find some perch to keep her attention with some hot action! ;)
I was up this past weekend around PiB… we had limits each time out in fairly short order trolling hot ‘n tots and shallow diving bandits on braid spinning rods. Few fish in the 20-24” range but mostly good eaters. Fished the edge of depth changes around well known local reefs around PiB and we caught most of ours in the 12-15 FOW range. Caught fish both in AM and evening starting around 5pm. Best colors were darker… copper/olive with orange underside.
@shane, were you using hot'n tots on boards and all that jazz or just straight trolling them? My dad used to troll those guys way back in the day when the casting bite was 0 and I have a ton of them left from his box! I have never been sure how affective they would be with my setup (i am really not setup for dialed in trolling, just forward, neutral, forward, neutral, etc.). What depth do you think they were running, how far back, etc.?
I've had success running Hot n Tots flatlined with no board. In WB about 45-60 back with a 2oz. weight 5 feet in front of them. I've used them similar areas between all the islands on west side. Also success in front of Edgewater Beach in central basin. But deeper there. I keep one copper/ orange, gold one, green and silver, and blue and silver. I also use them to cast for steelhead in river mouths until early december.
Rickerd
These are just flatlined off braided spinning rods..When I fish this way it’s an old aluminum boat with no electronics. I have a throw buoy I use to keep them marked when I find them concentrated in a certain area, which definitely happens, but I’ve been fishing same reefs for years so I have a pretty good idea of where they may be stacked up.
My guess is 25-30 yards back so maybe 90 feet or so.. I can judge the right speed by how the plug is vibrating with the braid. Sometimes you want to bump bottom once in awhile in 8-10 feet and it’s amazing how often a walleye will grab it after it bangs off bottom.. must be the noise and sudden movement change.
Caught another quick limit of fish today of better grade, all 19-23”. Black and gold and a chartreuse perch today.. always have had better luck with traditional colors compared to some of the more funky modern hot n tot colors.
Definitely pull out those old hot n tots and give them some water time.. you may be surprised what happens and super fun on light tackle. Areas around Lost Ballast, Buckeye and Starve are all productive with this style until the weeds finally show up in the shallows when it becomes a PIA to troll these areas.
Plenty of 22-24” walleye south east of dumping ground in front of cedar point. 37-40’ water. Tight to the bottom. Had 2 man limits both sat and sun from 0630-1130 am. Dragging harnesses any color 2.0. 2 ounce weights. Keep the info sharing going guys. There’s plenty of meat for us all!! Tight lines!!
Thanks for the post.Was your speed 2.0mph?
Also were your harness blades Colorado or Willow...and color?
Sorry…speed 2.0…they seemed to like it slower and deeper. Colorado blades in crawler harnesses. any color was hitting. Running from 100-125’ back from planer boards.
Thanks GoBucks.When out last time could not get the harnesses on our boards to catch.Didnt go slow enough or try Colorado blades like you did successfully.
Thanks. Blind squirrel even finds a nut once in a while. Haha
We fished Thursday August 1st with John around the weather bouy.Got our 12/25lbs but took 6hrs.Started north of old C can, where we caught our 18/38 lbs the week before, but only caught 1 keeper on Thursday.So picked up gear and headed east checking for marks along the way.Set up at the bouy with 4 dipseys with 2 willow blade worm harness and 2 spoon harness.Was trolling between 2.5-2.7 and caught a few keepers but also our share of white bass.Headed east hoping to get out of the white bass in deeper water but also found no more walleye.Picked up and rode back to the bouy again.Had only 7 fish then.Told John about Gobucks8100 post about going slower with Colorado blades.Had nothing to lose so put a couple Colorado blades on our harness and slowed down to 2.0 mph.Was thinking going to catch junk and sure enough hooked a huge sheepshead that must have took 5 min to get in.Chuckled when John tried to lift the net and it didn't budge.Caught 2 more junk fish and had decided to switch back to the Willow blades when another rod fired.John grabbed it and had another heavy fish.Said probably another big sheep...nope it was a 26" walleye.Then rod on other side fired and had another keeper eye.Another 30 min and we had our 12 fish.So thanks GoBucks for the tip.Helped us finish the day on a high note.
Good Morning. Yesterday morning (8/3), me and the the wife went out and fished East of the dumping grounds north of Cedar Point. We trolled stinger spoons behind jets, 36 to 42 feet of water. I also took GoBucks advice and slowed down between 1.9 to 2.1/2.2 on the gps. we didn't get out on the water until 8 am had caught 9 walleye 7 nice keepers by 10am. ran the lines back between 90 to 150. the deeper the better so we ended up at 135 back to 150 back ... At 10 ish my wife said "im getting tired an need a nap" hahaha. So we finished at about 10:30 and as I was reeling in the rods, the last one hit before I got to it so I picked up another keeper. Ended the morning with 8 nice keepers.. Hope this helps the group...
3 man limit both Saturday & Sunday…few miles due East of the KI airport in 42 FOW. Speed 2.4-2.6. N ->S trolling direction. spoons & spoon harnesses targeting 30-34ft depth did the trick Saturday & rapala jointed minnows J7s behind dipsys did the trick on Sunday. Saw a bug species I’ve never seen before—greenish yellow lady bugs everywhere.
People still doing well for perch around the cans? Coming up tomorrow with my 5 year old nephew and he wants to chase perch.
We are headed back up for the weekend also. I heard G and H cans for perch. Anybody get any live minnows in yet?
Where are the walleye?
I'm heading up next saturday as well. Right now thinking of Huron, Vermillion, or Lorain to launch from in search of walleye. Thought about trailering back to the cans for an evening perch fish... not too sure about that just yet.
I'll be up for the weekend also. Going up around the cans for perch and then going to troll spoons behind dipsys and pick away at the eater 'eyes
Happy Hooker had goldies yesterday morning - 8/21.
We were looking for walleye around West Sister. Possibly marked a few but caught none. Found it to be untrollable due to all the floating grass. Just constantly fouled up the inline planers. Couldn't avoid it. Ended up doing a lot of casting crawler harnesses and perching with the goldies all around the island and then south to the west of A can and southwest of A. There were about 10 boats perching around A can but we weren't close enough to see how they were doing. They were there a long time so presumably were having some success. We ended up with 2 perch, 1 cat and 6 tasty drum. Two drum came as a double on the perch spreader.
If anyone has advice on how to troll this time of year when there are floating weeds all over, please share!
The further east or north you go,away from shallow water where grass grows, the less grass you have.If you use inline boards the grass will accumulate on the board and usually not run down the line.If using dipseys,you can clip a release on the line a foot or two below water line to catch grass too
Hi way bait has live Goldie's and frozen shiners today.
Herbs had Goldie’s this morning for $6.50 a GENEROUS (18-24) scoop. Grabbed some of them and a couple dozen night crawlers and headed up to west reef/Taco Bell/(just west of north bass for some perch due to a good report at the dock this morning. Only picked up 15 or so, but they were good size. Then headed over to east of Kelly’s for a half dozen or so walleye. 1 23” nice and fat. And a giant 24” sheep head that broke the line right above the planer board…but was nice enough to let us hand line him, the board, and the tackle back in….after chasing him down a couple hundred yards. Fishing was slow today, but good considering all the boat traffic and sail boat regatta around Kelley’s. Great weather!! Tight lines boys (and Juls)!!
I fished the Northwest corner of the Lorain dump on saturday. The bite was slow for us... we managed to boat 14 keepers for a day of fishing, and approx. a dozen or more throwbacks. Worm harnesses and spoons did most of the catching targeting 35' down.