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I waited out the wind until about 1:00 this afternoon. Did some trolling with harnesses in the triangle west of middle bass. Ended up with 3 eaters by 4:00. Was marking a lot of what should be perch. Ended up dropping anchor south of rattlesnake marina entrance. Started at 5:00. Pulled 12 keepers by 7:00. Nothing great 8-10” some throw backs, and a couple sheep. All I had was crappie rigs, and frozen shiners. Maybe spreaders would have been better today. Every one came on the bottom hook, and they wouldn’t touch 1/2s had to be whole. Back at it in the am. Going to try for a couple eyes early then back to perch by 7:00.

Came up this weekend with the wife and toddler girl for an island weekend. On the way to PIB Friday, we stopped at American Eagle for a couple drifts to see if we could find some fish to keep the little one interested. The brainwashing is taking affect quite nicely because when she woke up from her little snooze (boat ride always puts her right to sleep!), she said “are we fishing??? YAAAAAY!!!!” ;).

Did 2 drifts just north of the red can. Picked up 1 walleye on each drift and a handful of sheep each drift. She loves “sheepyheads” so she had a ton of fun! Both eyes came on the same boring stuff they tend to hit for me for some reason! 1/2 ounce jig head, 3″ white curly tail, tipped with a little worm. Set that rod up to drag/bounce bottom while I cast a second rod with erie dearie or harness. Chose Dearie this time out of laziness and the Dearie caught all the sheep.

2 good eaters is plenty for a little fish fry for our fam so definitely had a fun and successful little stop!!

Be back up in 2 weeks with the fam again and hoping to hit some perch action then and get the little one REAAAALLY brainwashed with hot perch action! :o:o

Tight lines all!!

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Has anyone done the most recent software update and now the simulator mode don’t work. Can’t find much on the web or the Garmin site about it except that the update was so large that they had to leave the simulator out. Not sure if that’s true. I’ll try calling customer support Monday when they open. I’m sure I’m not the only one this has happened to.

Was waiting out the wind. Put in about 4:00pm. Made the short, and somewhat protected trip to my perch spot north of ballast. Anchored up , and immediately started catching. 4 in the box in 15 minutes plus a couple under 8” that went back then just shut off. Nothing else for an hour. Picked up and went north of East point. To rough to troll, so I just did some casting. Throwing weapons with 1/2 a crawler. Decent action for a couple hours. Lots of short strikes. Some shorts, and a couple farm. Ended up with 2 eaters. The 4 perch were on minnows on homemade double perch rigs. As an aside. Has anyone ever caught crappie around middle bass. I was waiting for the wind to die so I had a rod in the water in the marina, and caught a nice 12” on my perch rig. I often throw a line in off the big boat. Catch a couple perch from time to time just never any crappie. Seems odd! The marina is dead flat mostly silt bottom with no cover.

Went out yesterday trying for some eyes. First fished northwest of turtle creek in 15 feet of water. Never had a hit. Moved due north to 21 feet of water east of numerous trap nets and got more of the same. Marked a ton of small fish but didn’t have any minnows so moved north to 27 feet of water. Slowly picked up 5 keepers and a short. I was probably there for 3 hours but the fish turned off for the last hour. I was fishing pretty slow. Started with a crawler harness with gold hammered blade and red and white beads and a 3/4 ounce sinker. Picked up 1 with that setup in an hour so changed to a harness with white and chartreuse beads and they liked that better.

Very few boats out. Water was 75 degrees and the wind was moving me at just over .3 mph. I wish it was a little stiffer but control what you can…

The fish I caught were pretty aggressive as two of them had both hooks of the harness totally inside their mouth.

Anybody catching perch near toledo yet, I know the eyes have moved east, can you head over towards the intake or maybe a can and still pick up eyes, took a break when the mayflys hatched but ready to get back on the water and catch some fish, I’m at bush marine in the ottawa River so want to get back out there and catch some fish,

Just started fishing Lake Erie this summer. Currently have a 7ft Medium-Heavy rod, fast action. I have tried fishing Lake Erie a few times this summer (weekends) and haven’t had much luck. I do not have any planers, boards, down riggers, etc nor do I plan on using them this year.

With that being said, what do some of you recommend using? Spoons? Worm Harness? Erie Dearie? And how should I rig it? I thought about using a 2oz weight and having a lead off the top of it with a flutter spoon or worm harness? Plan on maybe drift fishing and or just cruising along about 1.8mph in 40-48FOW. Or should I just throw some 3/4oz spoons out, let them sink and slowly reel in? Am I on the right track?

Any tips and tricks would be greatly appreciated. My biggest concern is knowing how deep my lure is without a line counter.

Possibly headed to Lorain July 8,9. Looking for good place to try for some walleyes. Never fished this far east not sure where to go. Any help would be greatly appreciated. 😎

Rolled the dice when the rain stopped this morning. Bumpy morning, but the fish were biting. Found 6 good ones (eaters 15-17), about 12-15 shorties, and lots of trash. Drifted from the finger to G can. G can area was most productive. Started a little after 9a and was back at noon.

Tight lines all!

After about 20 months of drydock due to a surgery last year, got the boat in for a 4 hour shakedown cruise on the 15th with my neighbor Bob. Started around G and ended around Niagra and Cone reef area after a fish tip from my friend John. Was a little bumpy that day. Mayfly’s were not as thick at Niagra and Cone on the screen. Caught 5 keeper eyes with alot of throwbacks. Had an issue with my Helix. The transducer had started leaking fluid (sitting in the sun to long?) and was replaced this May. The Helix kept blinking and locking, so took it home last weekend, backed it up and put in the latest software update. Was fine at Home on battery there. Hooked it up in the boat Friday AM and was doing the same thing. Turns out the external GPS antennae failed so took it out of the connection and ran the internal antennae.

So neighbor Bob and I set out 6-22 to between G/F can on the range. Mayfly’s had really thinned out. Trolled between 2.5 -2.8MPH. Kept our 12 keeper Eye and alot of shorts, plenty of sheep & white ones and 2 cats, 1 of which had to be about a 10#. Was thinkin perhaps it was a Steelhead as it went wherever it wanted to for quite a while. Could not seem to keep our lines in the water but it was a fun workout with no Eye fishing for either one of us last year. We were back in the river before 11 so were able to beat most of the heat until I cleaned the boat. Dipsey settings .5/2/3.5, were 32’/42’/62′ Best spoon was a stinger Barney STD, with a close second Yeck Night rider.

A beautiful day on the lake!