June 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 ....

[Jfish]

We went out Saturday Northwest of West Sister. It was way more the West way.

Set up 2 drifts and caught the 12 by 10:30 and we were out there at about 6am.

Using worm harnesses and bottom bouncers. Most were on the bottom or around 10 feet above or so. One pig was caught on a bouncer. We stuck around another half hour and caught 2 more for fun.

Then Sunday went out in the afternoon to the same area and only caught 2. That Northeast Sat. night and Sun. morning.

Why is the wind NORTHEAST so much???????

[PKMc]

We did the exact same thing the exact same day and had similar results. We hit the bottom bouncers more west than north of West Sister. Out there at 7:00 done at 11:00, 10 eyes in the box, 9 came on silver worm harnesses. All fish were 17" to 19".

[True Blue]

Met up with Spoontang around 1:00 at the marina. Started fishing north of North Bass island, west bound and circling back south between Rattlesnake and Niagra. We pulled spoons off down riggers and long lined crank baits. Fishing was slooooow. We caught three by around 7:00pm. I wanted to stick with the program as I wanted to see how to do this type of fishing. My wife finally convinced us to put out a worm harness off a board and shortly thereafter we caught a walleye; then another and another... Lake was choppy at first but by sunset had settled down and we had a nice run back to the dock. We only ended up with 11 in the boat one off at the back of the boat, one throw back, a couple sheep head and a few white bass. I believe the final count for walleye was spoons - 2, cranks - 3, and harness 6. We stuck with it and although we didn't limit we had a great time; as they say a bad day fishing is better than being at work! Thanks Spoontang!

[waterdog]

7am , We were out by Niagara reef in 29 fow, caught one eye right away, alot of sheephead, alot of white perch and some yellow perch. We moved to b-can and caught some more sheephead, but no eye's. We moved back to Niagara and anchored and caught about 25 Jumbo yellow perch. We caught the perch on a spreader with minows, they like the minows better than the night crawlers. The bigest was 13 inches! Anyway we caught the walleye on a red erie deerie with a night crawler. I heard on the cb channel some guys were doing good over by North Bass Island.
Anyway, it was a great day to be on the lake!

[waterdog]

Perch fishing at Niagara was great again. Took the wife and daughter and only fished for about 2 hours in 29 fow using spreader, minows and perch hooks and no bling. We caught 33 jumbo perch, the bigest was 12"er.
I just got tired of trying to find those eyes!

[jamess2008]

Fished east side of Kelleys 530 to 1230. 2 man limit 35 fow. Throwing weapons. We must have been doing something different then everyone else cause only seen the others nets fly once in a great while. Nice fish too 3 to 7 lbs. The inside cut on the east side.I will say when we marked fish we were catching sheephead and white bass. We were better off not marking fish. Cause if you got a hit it was the dead weight walleye bite.Jim

[wallenharms]

Fished Saturday, started out south of west reef, picked up one casting. Moved over to Northwest reef, large pack of boats, and ran #30 jets and picked up one 70 back. NOt many marks so went back to south of west reef, ran the boards and started picking them up in a pocket, once we found the pocket just keep working them 60 and 70 feet back. Ended up with 18 on saturday with 8 throwbacks and 15 sunday with 3 throw backs. Spoon color or pattern did not matter on saturday but on sunday it did, needed a large spot on the spoon. Best of luck.

[fishman]

Mitch-spoons were the ticket- gold/copper were successful also a green and cold combo worked well. Some friends of mine went out on June 6 and used the same technique in the same area and had a four man limit with 2 throwbacks and lost 5 on the way in.

[JMusic]

I've used a lot of different lures started trolling the shouls and gull reef about 25 byears ago. Learn side planing here at norris. A bit of a pain but worth it.


Jim.