Non Canadian Walleye Fishing in the Summer

[j4gash]

Fish along the Canadian Line towards the weather Bouy moving East as summer progresses. I wouldn't overlook Canada we caught 24 yesterday weighing 108 łbs. Fishing there extends your season for some Big Walleye. We did best in Crawler Harnesses I bought at Bays Edge by Captian Randy with Tommy Harris Blades. Pink and Purple Blades worked the best.

[Jiga-Byte]

Fish along the Canadian Line towards the weather Bouy moving East as summer progresses. I wouldn't overlook Canada we caught 24 yesterday weighing 108 łbs. Fishing there extends your season for some Big Walleye. We did best in Crawler Harnesses I bought at Bays Edge by Captian Randy with Tommy Harris Blades. Pink and Purple Blades worked the best.

I was out in that area on Friday. About half way between Kelley Island Shoal and the weather bouy, right on the Canadian line. The only reason I'm looking for spots in Ohio waters is because I take out a lot of friends and family members. I know many of them are not going to want to get their Canadian fishing licenses and passports. We did pretty well out there on Friday. We caught 4 on the first troll, and then for whatever reason we started catching trash fish non stop. Every time we would put out a line we would have a White Bass or a Sheephead. We couldn't even keep the lines out long enough to get Walleye, because of all the trash fish. I ended up moving a little bit to the southwest to try and get back into the eyes, but they were hit and miss from that point on - a lot slower than that first pass through. We ended up with 10 in about 6 hours of fishing. Did catch one really nice one though that was 29.5" long and just short of 9 lbs.

[Chuck E.]

Went out about three hours Monday about noon. North and east of Gull shoal then to K.I. shoal. About 3 hours of nothing but thousands of midges.
used Pink and purple spoons, 1.9 to 2.3 MPH with dipsies. Worked a depth of 20 to 30 feet of water. Just me with 2 lines out, Not even sheepshead. I think I will wait until I see some positive reports on the forum around Kelleys island.

[Jiga-Byte]

Went out about three hours Monday about noon. North and east of Gull shoal then to K.I. shoal. About 3 hours of nothing but thousands of midges.
used Pink and purple spoons, 1.9 to 2.3 MPH with dipsies. Worked a depth of 20 to 30 feet of water. Just me with 2 lines out, Not even sheepshead. I think I will wait until I see some positive reports on the forum around Kelleys island.

I was out Saturday northeast of Kelley's for about 5 hours with my dad and my son who is 7 years old. It was extremely slow, but we did manage to pull 3 decent eyes. One went for 27 inches. We were pulling a combination of crawler harnesses and stinger spoons. Two were caught on crawler harnesses with serrated willow blades, and the other was caught on a pinkle/purple spoon. We got some decent marks, but couldn't entice many of them to bite. I think they are still feasting on mayflies. Oddly enough we caught zero junk fish. No white bass, no sheeps, only the 3 walleye. Listening to channel 79 as we were fishing, it sounded like the charters were having about the same luck. Some said they had around 10 Walleye, but I imagine they had more people on board, and consequently more lines in the water. Hopefully the mayfly hatches will be ending soon, and the fishing will get better.

[Hoytman86]

The midges were f***ing terrible out by West Sister on Sunday. I don't know if I've ever had less fun in a non life-threatening day on the lake. It was a beautiful day, just a slow bite and the bugs. We'll be back up on the 16th for a long weekend, hopefully the lake will settle down a bit and the fishing will go back to normal.