Anybody help a weekender?

[itsbob]

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.

[itsbob]

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.

[Ltrain]

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

[itsbob]

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

[itsbob]

Hi way bait has live Goldie's and frozen shiners today.

[Gobucks8100!]

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)!!

[tater140]

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.