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John and I fished Friday. Forecast called for winds out of the NE overnight and through the morning. I told John we would be running right into NE rollers on the run out. But he bet me the “usual” $1 bet we would have a smooth run out to fish. Unfortunately, I won the bet and had 3′ rollers on the run out to where we fished the past two weekends. That area is just north of Old C can around 4 miles east of Kellis Island Shoal. The sonar showed poor marks so headed east along the line until found better marks another 4 miles east. Set out gear and hooked and lost one good fish then nothing for another 30 min. We picked up and ran east to weather buoy. Set up gear and was catching after adjusting dipsies for the deeper water. Caught our 12/33lbs in a couple hours with several 24″ fish and a little sorting. One short and one sheep. Speed 2. 7mph.Only fished 4 dipseys cuss was in Canadian waters. Had one green spoon harness and 3 double willow worm harness out. The 3@ 90 and 1@75 did the catching. John had another friend join him Saturday, without me.Went to same area and gear and caught 5 fish, but one was a F/O 28″ beauty.FYI, they have commercial nets between Kellis and South Bass that we had to navigate around in the morning.

Mix of golden and emerald shiners. Spreaders. no bling. A can. 10 – 20 boats in the area.
We got 31 by 11am. Much better quality than by the islands Friday. Several 10s and 11s today. Seemed to light up in 25.5 fow and stop in 26.5 fow. Golden #4 hooks did twice as good as red ones.

3 of us casting Crib this morning with harnesses and weight forwards. Just us and one other boat most of the morning. Left the Portage about 7a. Bite was solid early, but then had to work for them. Fished until about 12:30 or so. Ended with 11 good ones with 3 around 24”, about 12-15 shorts, 4 cats, and 8-10 sheep. There wasn’t much wind, but when the little we had died, so did the bite. There was a pack of boats at D can with most anchored up perching. It didn’t look like the perch were on fire either. BEAUTIFUL day on the lake!

Tight lines all!

Went out early today thinking it would be busy with the nice forecast. No emerald shinners made a slow start and it showed the perch didn’t care for them. No wind per say either didn’t help the bite. Walleye guys were trolling all over the place. DNR guy at the ramp says walleye catches were good but Perch bite was really slow unless you had good minnows. I only kept 6 nice ones, 9 plus to 11″ plus, gues it will be perch sandwiches tonite.

We used spreaders with no bling. Snelled #4 gold hooks. Mix of emerald and non-emerald(?) shiners. 1 oz weights.

Thursday evening, the waves held our small boat to 15 fow, about half way out to B can. We got 1 cat, 1 white perch, 1 tasty drum, 0 perch.

Friday morning, we started on the SE side of G can in 23 fow. 1 cat, 1 white perch, 1 tasty drum, 6 perch. About a dozen boats joined us there but most left quickly.

Headed north and marked some fish near F can. So we stopped there all by our lonesome. Bugs ran us out. No fish.

Around 10:30 or so we approached the swarm of 75 – 100 boats that were south of Green Is. We started a ways further to the south and west than the crowd. It was about 28 fow as I recall. I got a big double right away. 1 more cat, a couple tasty drum. I marked a ton of fish on the Helix that looked like walleye to me. Sure enough the 6-year-old landed a 14.5″ walleye on his spreader. I figured the walleye were chasing the perch away. We only got 5 perch here. So we used the Minn Kota to “drift” into the crowd at 0.3 mph, which is slow enough that our lines stayed practically vertical. We saw some nearby boats catching but nothing there for us so we went to lunch.

At 3pm we stopped to the SE of Rattlesnake Is. in 31 fow and “drifted” our way toward the 25′ zone. Before we lost any depth we got a couple more tasty drum and 7 perch in about 30 minutes. This was the best bite of the day by far. However, they soon stopped biting. Again we marked walleye all over, probably the 14″ variety. We tried the east side of Rattlesnake and back to the SE again but never got another bite.

Called it a day around 5:30pm with 18 perch. Most were 8″ but we had four 9’s and one 10″.

Full moon tonight…

Got started around 8:30 Wednesday morning 1 scoop of emeralds. Wind was out of the NE at around 10 knots wasn’t to buggy but a little more breeze would have helped out. Homemade Lindy rig did the job 13 pound’s at the cleaners no farm animals and 1 throw back walleye.

Will be staying at Turtle Point this weekend, taking my grandson out Friday evening around 4:30 and all day Saturday. I want him to catch some fish. I was wondering if anyone is catching walleye casting harnesses around the cans. Might just go after some perch. No matter what, it sure looks like it is going to be a great weekend to be on the lake. I might try the water intake area, I heard that is always a good area to start. Good luck everyone and tight lines.

Was the 1st mate for charters Friday and Saturday. Friday, fishing on/around the dump 35-40 FOW in the crowd, Friday we took 31 out of a possible 36. Nothing special size wise. On Saturday, we stopped west of the pack, took 30/30,34-36 FOW. Never had an encounter with another boat. Size was much better, one @ 26”, several over 20”. Used small stinger and Yeck teardrop spoons; along with J-7 plugs; both behind Dipseys and Tru-Trip 40 divers. Caught them with leads of anywhere from 45 to 95 feet. Saturday was 76 lbs at the cleaners.

Fished North of C can, 34 FOW. Slow but fish were all 9 inches or better. Ended up with 20. We used whole
Golden on spreaders with no spinners or beads.

John was supposed to fish with a buddy earlier in the week but the remnant of the hurricane busted up that deal.Only possibly of fishing was Friday if weather and his Buddy Terry could join us.The stars aligned and Terry flew John up from Zanesville.Headed to same place yesterday that we fished last week.Just north of line in Canada and the nets off the NE side of Kelly’s.Got lines in water around 6:45am after a smooth ride out and the fish were still there.Took us just under 4 hrs but sorted through 35 fish to get out 18 keepers that weighed 42 lbs at cleaners.The dipseys caught almost all the fish today again.Had on two double willow worm harness in purple/pink blades, one green spoon harness and a J7.Had them 3 setting at 80 and 85 and one setting 60 and 65.Got A few on the two boards with a blue chrome bandits at 150 with 2oz at 50.Best speed around 2.7 mph Had 16 keepers and were getting more selective when John and Terry were messing around bringing a board in they thought had a fish.I was on other side of boat waiting for them to have nothing when the drag sang out on a rod next to me.Was a heavy fish and John slowed the boat down to help reel in what was probably a huge sheepshead.When fish rolled at surface and didn’t look like a sheep.Then I thought it was a big cat and John got net ready to lift it out of water.Was horsing in when got close enough to get a good look and it was a big eye.Was 25″ but a thick fish thst weighed 6 lbs.Took a little while to get last keeper when wind died and sun was bright.But no midges or flies.Great day on the water.