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Made a late decision to do a little night fishing. Left the dock just after 7pm. Planned on starting on touisaint but there was still a few boats on the reef so moved up to crib. Started on the east side, marked tons of fish up high in 24 fow so set bandits 30bk @ 2.0 expecting to get bites as we got up on the shallow stuff, but had 6 fish in the box before we even got to the reef. Pulled 2 monster fish Ohio sheep off the top of reef, then pulled gear and ran back to the east because the wind was a little more than it was supposed to be. Reset lines and had our 18 on the second pass before we got back to to reef and back to the ramp by 9:30…never even got to night fish… maybe Sunday night on touisaint with a SE wind? Huff Daddy seemed to get most of the bites

Started drifting and casting about 9am. Very slow drift and quite muddy. Not many marks and no fish went further north to nw of Kelly’s. Deeper cleaner water but nothing in the box. Went back to AES and with a little better drift got a 2 man limit of eaters. Back at dock at 3pm.

This report is going to be short…my face kind of hurts right now, due to a pulled tooth yesterday.

Short story…
Fished over 28-29 feet of water…west of the Bass Islands.
They caught their limits, (I reeled mine in too), using Bandits, and Flicker Minnow 11s, behind Off Shore boards.
Dipsies with spoons…at a speed of 2.2-2.4mph (On the FishHawk)..

Zero setting at 30 and 35 back …
Two setting at 45-50 back…
Three setting at 47…
SOG was similar to the FishHawk, going from west to east.

Red Headed WB, or just a red and white one, with a black dot …was our best spoon…(Scorpions)

“Barbie” Bandit… 70 back was hot…as was the “Purple Glass Perch” Flicker Minnow11 at 120 back. We doubled up on those colors, and leads, and we were done by 9:15.

Nothing really big…a 22 or 23 incher, is the biggest caught this morning….the rest were 16-20” fish….just good eaters.

This lake is going to be some insane fun, in about five years. I’m glad to see all the smaller fish surviving, and getting fatter…

Same crew tomorrow…

Stay tuned…

Capt Juls

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John and I fished today west of the islands.Even though we had north winds to start the day, the velocity was light and had a comfortable morning on the lake.Took us 4 hours to catch our 12 fish that weighed 29 lbs at cleaners.Finally caught some fish with our dipsey and worm burners.But the bandits caught the majority of fish and definitely the larger fish.What caught best was the green/ copper worm burner on dipsey at a 3 setting at a 40 lead.The bandits that caught the best was IB frozen or gold color on leads of 90,85 and 80.Speed was 2.1 to 2.2 mph.Tried some white colors with no results too.We did throw back about 4 15″ fish and had a couple shorts.

Working through my second season of using inline boards.
So far have things running pretty well thanks to many tips on this forum and various seminars.
How far do you keep the closet board from the boat?
I normally run 3 to 4 per side. I think I try to keep inside board at least 50 feet from boat.
How big of an effect do you think the boat has on spooking fish?

Looking for any advice on the Monroe/Sterling Park area. Fished it this spring (April) when the NNW winds picked up and did well. Concentrated on 14-18′ of water at that time. Just wondering if that bite also exists now? Headed that way, staying in Port Clinton, next week and hoping to fish even if we get some NNW/NNE winds. No problem trailering around to the Sterling Park launch if needed. Assuming we would target a bit deeper water this time of year? cranks/harnesses any thoughts are welcome.

Thanks much and good fishing

Returned to the south side of Green and made a pass where we (myself and five children) ended the night before. At the south bass ferry line we circled and headed up the west side for a while.
Moved up to the North side of Rattlesnake and trolled (12 lines) East through the channel to Middle Bass shoal. Moved to Gull buoy and trolled North East towards line until we were well Northeast of Kelleys shoal. Moved south and looked for marks East of the airport and south a bit. Picked up some ice at the ferry dock and headed west again with four fish, lunch and disappointment. There were a few boats between carpenters point and starve island drifting and trolling, so we set up Southwest of them and made a pass along the south side of the pack. Picked up a few on the first line (1:30-2:30?) and continued to work the area until 7:30. Finished with 27 keepers, a handful of shorts, two fish Ohio drums and a few other odd balls.
From all our travels I was amazed at the lack of marks from Gull around the east side of Kelley’s. The area we worked at the last showed better marks than anywhere else we had been.
We used the following spread-
2-p-10’s at 100’
6- bandits 40-100’
2- flicker minnow / small spoon 30/30 2oz
2- disc diver / medium spoon (I like the lite bite slide diver for finding shorts)
Pink, white and blue worked best. The spoons took no keeper walleye.
Thanks to all who keep posting, I appreciate the posts whether at the lake or not!

The past five years I’ve been on charter boats that fish Canada in May and June and do great. We drifted harnesses and I really am not interested in trolling.

I’ve got my own money money pit now and I am looking for Intel on fishing in Canada. Is this a simple case of the grass is greener over the line?

I’ve got 2 little boys and want the initial experience in the Basin to be positive….

The CharterCam live charter fishing boat webcam should start the 2024 season Saturday morning, the next charter. Boat should be out nearly every day afterward (weather dependent). It’s on my Lake Erie web site:

Lake Erie Live Webcam Webcams Web Cam

I will also be live streaming from my boat when I’m out fishing, nearly every weekend and a few weekdays (weekdays will mostly be Friday evenings and around holidays). I plan to help fisherfolks by getting out early and locating walleye. Once I find active fish, I’ll post the spot and then go looking other places for them. Try to find more than one location for people to fish. That stream is at the bottom of the fishing report page. It could change when I get a chance to update the web site.

I will be continuing my citizen scientist underwater camera project as well as doing a lot of experimentation with the Garmin Livescope sonar. Testing how to use it on Lake Erie to find and identify walleye as well as other fish and see how it can be used to increase catch rates.

Also, if anyone needs a ride out fishing, occasionally I may have a spot. Let me know. And, I’m interested in using the livescope (it’s a portable system) during trolling. I don’t troll, so if anyone has an interest in taking me along when you troll, I’d love to test out the livescope to see how it may be used to improve trolling success.

Everything I’m doing will be updated on the web site as time permits.

If anyone has an interest in any of this, send me a personal message.

There is a way to get the Lake Erie NOAA MODIS Satellite image closer to the size it used to be, and it has a zoom function.

Go the Great Lakes MODIS site:
MODIS ‘-‘ Coastwatch Great Lakes Node

Choose the Lake (Dataset), Year, and Month (month is already default to current month and day).

Look at the three buttons below an image. Click the aqua green buttom at the right that says “files”.

When the files screen opens, click the second, or lower, file of the two – the “.tif” file. It will download the image to your computer. It will not automatically open, you’ll have to open the file. Once open, you can move the image with your mouse and zoom in. The image gets more out of focus the more you zoom in, but you can get a decent look at the various water clairities a lot better than the standard image.