Anybody help a weekender?

[Gobucks8100!]

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.

[nickpaolini81]

Friday We did a midday drift with kids from 11-2 on the cedar point dump and same. 12 keepers and tons of shorts.

[tomdury]

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!

[Gobucks8100!]

Thanks. Blind squirrel even finds a nut once in a while. Haha

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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.

[tomdury]

@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.?

[LazyDays]

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.

[PJ Mas]

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...

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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.

[Gobucks8100!]

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!!