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Went out of fenwick marina this morning used purple and John Deere green and got totally skunked I donÂ’t know what we were doing wrong but we need to get it figured out any anise would be appreciated

I took a friend along today and we launched out of Catawba about 6:45, hoping that most of the rain was past. Wind was a little stronger than what I had expected out of the SSW, but it had calmed down considerably by 8:30. We started north of Catawba about where the water started to clear up some and we trolled NW with the wind at about 1.8 mph. After about 15 minutes we had a double with the middle and outside board going off within 10 seconds of each other. After those 2 we couldn’t get another bite for over an hour, so we decided to head north up to Lucy’s point area. The water was very clear as we got north of the point and I started marking fish in 35 to 40 fow. We set up at various depths from 12 feet down to 28 feet down. We were using bandits, PWC and Deep little ripper, fishing for at least an hour and a half with no action. They were there, but had lockjaw! There were several boats to the east of us near the Canadian line. I thought maybe the water was too clear or maybe they just aren’t putting the feed bag back on yet so we moved down to the pass between PIB and Middle Bass. There were probably a dozen others in that area so we gave that a try and picked up a few more, but just on the smaller cranks. Also saw some guys trolling at about half the speed we were and I’m guessing they were pulling crawler harnesses and catching some. But I hadn’t brought any crawlers along, thinking it was still a bit early for those. By around 1 we decided to head back down where we started the day. Ended up with 9 keepers that averaged around 21 inches.
Lures that caught were…
PWC Chrome seasick frog
Deep little ripper 600 Red wonderbread (2)
Deep little ripper 600 Green Hawaiian
Deep little ripper 600 Grape Ape
PWC Walleye crank lite Chrome Barbie
Flicker Minnow 9 – Slick Alewife (3)
Can’t remember any of the others, but the smaller profile were definitely better producers.
Best set was 40′ then 2 oz. and another 20′ but also caught a few on the high lines unassisted at 35 to 45 back.

Even though the bite was slow, it turned out to be a gorgeous day and very nice day on the lake. Hope to be back out this weekend if the weather cooperates.

All the Best!
Lynn

First off , sorry about not posting yesterday for the first trip.

Yesterday morning wife and I went out to do some jigging. We started just off the beach east of wild wings in 11 feet of water. Lots of marks. Turned out they were sheep head. We caught 5 in 10 minutes and I chose to move. Went north until we were about a quarter mile from K can. Marks were good enough to try. It was around 9:00 in the morning. Still a little cloudy. Wife caught one right away on a 3/4 ounce black jig and another shortly afterwards. I had started with a white with purple 5/8 ounce jig and was almost ready to switch. The sun showed up and everything changed. I picked up 3 in the next half hour and she switched to the same. We had our limit in another hour and a half. There were many boats in the area but didnÂ’t see many nets. 13 1/2 feet of water. 57 degrees water temperature.

Today, same thing. We were still south of K can but a little closer. 5/8 ounce white with purple jigs. Boat limit in 2:45. Grade of fish was not as good as yesterday. Still lots of boats. We were heading in at 9:55 and the wind was picking up a little.

Quick report today…had a later launch, and there’s lots to do before bedtime.😬
First time back on the water since a week ago, today.


Launched out of Catawba with my crew from Huron, OH, and headed west to the other side, and landed in 14-18’ of water.
The water was dirty to the south, mixing where we were (could see the cavitation plate and the prop was “ghostly”), and there was cleaner water to the north.


We didn’t catch any big fish this morning, but what we did catch were all good-sized eaters.


I was slacking on my photos today…sorry. This is the only one.


It was raining when we launched at 7am, so no sunrise pic, but by mid-morning the Sun was breaking through, from time to time, so that dried things out, and warmed the air up, nicely.


We ran crawlers on the starboard side and Bandits on the port side. The catch rate was 50/50 between the two, so I never broke down one side to run the other…I probably should have, but I couldn’t decide which to take off. So I left them.


We ended up with 16 for 18 on the walleye…and, we caught the first sheephead (in my boat)
of the season, and two white perch.


Speed was anywhere from 1.5 to 2.0mph.
Water temp varied from 55.6 to 57.3 degrees.


The mud is cleaning up fast, and shifting locations by the hour.


The Shortman family did a great job learning to run the OffShore boards, and setting them out. They currently run big boards on their boat, but wanted to see how to run inline boards, and I am confident they would be able to do this easily, by themselves.


We ran 2oz inline chain sinkers on the harnesses at 20, 30, 33, and 35 back …and, the Bandits ran at 55, 45, 40, and 35 back.


Tomorrow, and Wednesday, I have two fellas from Iowa, so I’m meeting them at Mazurik’s, and launching at 6:15, so hopefully there will be a sunrise pic in the morning.


Stay tuned….


Capt Juls

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I have been working on the big boat getting ready to launch the last couple weekends. Brought the fishing boat along hoping to finish my work on Sunday early enough to get out. I didn’t finish my list until about 4:00 pm. Grabbed some bait, and headed to East bay state park to launch. Marking tons of fish east of mouse island, so I stopped to jig for a bit. Water was super muddy. Nothing at all in the 45 minutes I spent there, so continued with my plan to troll. I set up south of green island, and headed north pulling bandits unassisted 70-100 back. I was by myself so just 3 boards. Wrapped around green to the east caught the first one right where the jet express runs closest to green. Nice 24” on blue crome 80 back. Continued NNE keeping the west edge of sugar as my waypoint. About 15 minutes later same lure hit again with a 20”er. BTW I was 2mph. Cleared south bass on the same heading and hooked up on the third. Absolutely felt like an eye all the way in, but no…farm animal. That was on a black head wonder bread. About 15 minutes later same board disappeared completely with the rod bouncing like crazy. No question about it sheep again. I didn’t mind as I was about to bring in my gear anyway, and when it doesn’t mess up my run I don’t mind catching a big sheep for fun. He ended up being a 29” hog. It was getting dark so I got north of sugar, set out some bottom bouncers with harnesses west to east between middle, and north bass. Marking quite a few fish in that area. Nothing at all not even a catfish which is more often than not what I catch up there late at night. By midnight no marks at all on the fish finder. Slow rolled all the way back down looking for fish since I rarely run fast at night anyway. Stopped a couple times on big marks for few minutes, but still nothing. Honestly didn’t expect much but it was an excuse to make an all night adventure out of it. Got back to the ramp at about 4am. Not great for fishing. I did learn a little, and had a blast being out on the water. About 2 more weeks, and I’ll have the big boat in. I’ll be up most weekends after that.

Same program today as my “Short Story” post. Fire Tiger color did the damage today 27 inches biggest.

I love April Walleye Fishing!!!!

John and i fished Sunday from 8-2pm. Ended up with 7 nice fish that weighed 23lbs at cleaners.Biggest was 25″. We started off Lucys point and caught two during first hour then got only one more next 3hrs.Were trolling bandits with and without sinkers.Around 1030 we decided had enough of the poor bite and building waves. Made the run south to hide behind kellies and joined around another 40 boats doing the same thing.Marks and water clarity were not as good as where we started but put our gear out and trolled west.The further west we got had better marks but dirtier water. About 12-18″ of clarity. I put on a pooh bear purple due to poor clarity and actually caught on that color with a 20/2oz and 40 more for total of 60. We eventually headed into american eagle and caught 2 more on puple and last one on taco salad.Speed was around 2.0mph.

Hi all,

Heading up for the first weekend on our 25′ Rinker this weekend and I always trade my buddies some fishing for their help waxing the boat. Don’t have all the fancy electronics that a true fishing boat has so a little limited and always looking for a point in the right direction.

Plan is to jig fish Friday and Saturday and spend the night on PIB. Assuming the cans are the spot to be this time of year but any suggestion otherwise? Early “plan” was to try Niagara, G can, etc. type area but thought I would get some input either way. Is it worth trying other “lesser” reef systems like Starve, Mouse Island reef, etc.?

As always, any/all help greatly appreciated!!

Morning, between the islands, purple or bright yellow bandits, 100 back, 2.3 mph by GPS. Rough and chilly but worth for fat walleyes. 25 inches weighed 5 lbs.

We stayed near L can from sun up to sun down, about 12 hours. 60 boats were there in the morning but it dropped off to only a handful in the evening as the whitecaps picked up.
Mostly drifting and jigging in 22 fow. Seemed pretty muddy to me. Green and orange hair jigs landed us a few eyes there, and a lot of sheep.
We went a little north to get slightly clearer water and tried brighter colors. Picked up a few there.
In the evening, we went shallower and muddier (about 13 fow). Purple worked there for a few more.
Ended the day trolling one pass in 13 fow. Caught a nice one with a pickle bandit at 65.
Total of 10 walleye, 7 sheepshead, 3 white perch and 2 yellow perch.