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Downsized to a smaller boat last year so need to be intune with the wind/wave forecasts. Generally fish around the Toledo water intake area within 5 miles or so of the shoreline. What is the best/ most accurate forecast service for that general area? Thanks in advance

I fished south of green island. First boat out. Didn’t know how it would be due to the storm, and low pressure. Bite was fine. Caught 20 in 2hours, then it got snotty. Only other boat’s out appeared to be charters. Btw all I had was frozen minnows. Nothing over 10 inches. Very light bite.

I see that many bait shops sell frozen minnows, how many of you that perch fish use them and how do they work? Are they frozen in alcohol?

Sorry for late post but went out of meinkes marina. Headed 4 miles straight out in 19ft of water. 2 miles east of the light house. Fished from 7-11am caught a 5 man limit. Not too many junk fish. Few sheep. Good steady pick. Mixed bag. 42lbs at the cleaners.

Finally was able to get out on the lake, perch bite was on. Headed out between green and rattlesnake. 31FOW. Crappie rig with goldies. Pulled multiple doubles.

Finally made the long run to Lorain on Thursday with hopes of getting better size fish.Think we were a week or two late to the party.Founf a small pack of boats at sunrise and saw good marks and set up our lines.Ran 4 dipseys and 4 boards.Started off well getting 4 keepers in first 40 min then it slowed way down.Was catching shorts and a lot of white perch/bass.Only had 8 fish after 4hrs.And some areas the white fish were ridiculous.Finally picked up and ran north to deeper water.Found some good marks and started catching keepers.Took us 2hrs to catch 10 more and only one short and no white perch.Speed was around 2.3 mph with the dipseys catching almost all our fish.Had double willow harnesses on 3/80-90 and J7 on our other 2 dipseys at 1/60 and 65 catching best.Had 2 cranks on boards first 4 hrs and got zip.Chanhed those cranks to another setup of 50/2oz/100 more for total of 150 and they caught a couple fish.Had worm harnesses on other two boards with 3 oz weight and they only caught a couple at 80 ft lead.Got 18/42lbs at cleaners and had a long line of perch ahead of us at cleaners too.

Looks like I have not missed much~!
Got the wife things done, and not seeing any post, so maybe I did not miss much.
Hope the bite is not done , in the past they hit hard and they it was gone, just saying, looking to pull some teeth soon, if the weather says so,
Be safe, tight lines and back when the weather permits.
~ Water Dog

We just got back today from a nice vacation down south (except it was way too hot). I didn’t see much in the way of Walleye reports, mostly Perch on here. Nice to see the Perch are strong this year.

We decided to go out this afternoon for a few hours to try to find some eyes and put together a program for guests we have scheduled next week. We launched out of Huron. The river is muddy and there is allot of wood around the launch and out the channel. We headed NNE and tried several spots. There are allot of fish out there with the more consistent bite the farther North we went.

Other than getting hammered by white bass at several stops the Walleye bite was slow and steady. It was 1:00 – 5:00PM in the afternoon. All eyes came deep, 30 to 35 down over 45 to 50 ft of water. Best speed was 3 mph on the fish hawk. Spoons were most productive in every color but we had to avoid white and chrome because of the white bass – they were eating them up. Perch with a gold back was best.

Bigger fish came on Super Rogues. Best Rogue colors were Nascar and Gold with Red head.

Went out for the first time this year on Monday the 31st, didn’t get out to the pack of boats southwest of Green Island until almost 10:00. Saw some marks on the fish finder and dropped anchor, spent almost four hours and just could not seem to really get going, ended up with only 12 fish for two people, most are nice sized ones, but definitely not the day we were hoping for. Tried moving once and then really stopped catching anything, he frozen shiners from Jeanettes. Hope to get out this weekend and do a little better.

4 hours today for 30 yellow perch
golden shiners , spreaders no bling
SE of G can 22 fow
most boats were west of my setup
some sorting
8 white perch and 4 farm animals
I did the best when the wind was blowing and had a nice swing
slow start, then steady then slow end
giving it a break, honey to do list.
back soon,
be safe and tight lines.

~Water Dog