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We fished yesterday 7/1 east of pelee with John and Terry.Was a tough bite for us.The harnesses and spoon harness that had been catching didn’t do much for us and we must have lost 8 fish half way to the boat.The bandits actually were catching the best so we added a couple flicker minnows to our set to catch a few more.The keepers weren’t very big either.Our 14 weighed 27 lbs.Had the bandits at 120-80 and caught a few on J7 on our 2 dipseys on a 3 setting.Had speed between 1.8 to 2.5 but most fish came at around 2.3 mph.Maybe 5 shorts and 2 sheep too.Missed the rain but the flies were driving John crazy.Terry and I had long pants on and we were fine but John refuses to wear long pants and paid the price.

Only had a few hours before work, so I ran out at 6:30 am to the west end of Gull Shoal. Drifted with SSW wind and ran into an active group at 24/25 FOW on the way “up the slope” in a tiny 50-100 yard radius. So I did a few mini-drifts and ended up getting 4 nice Walleye keepers and a bonus Perch. No shorties or dink walleyes. Not much junk. Chartreuse harnesses were the best. Left the fishing grounds after 2 & 1/2 hours and got to work.

We had a good time today fishing with 3 generations of guests. We fished out of Huron, working a pocket of inside clean water behind the dirty water coming out of the river and bending East.
The morning bite was fast paced and we couldn’t get a full spread out for over an hour. When the wind died and the sun came out about 11:00 the fish moved down and the bite slowed.

Early we were catching on Bandits back 100 and Stinger spoons behind Tru-Trip 40s back 70. The best Bandit color was Sun Spot, spoons were Nascar, Chicken Wing, and Gold Perch. When the bite slowed we still steadily picked away at smalls and scattered keepers on the down-riggers down 30 to 35 with scorpion spoons in the same colors as before except an antifreeze stinger did the best.

We trolled 2.5 to 3.0 on the fish-hawk.

Air was much better.

It was a tough bite for us today. The bright side was we got to fish with a super Father Son team.

We started North East of Kelly’s but the wind and Nets prevented us from working that area the way we needed to. So I moved North East down the line but could not find good marks. So we pulled spread again and headed South East to a reliable spot, but not this time. So another move burning gas and time with little to show. We finally found good marks East of Huron and started to catch. Shorts and keepers mixed. We finally caught 10 nice keepers before calling it a day.

We ran Bandits port at 60. 80. 100, and 120 back. Each lead caught but not many. The rigger caught down 30 on a Nascar colored Scorpion spoon.

Starboard we ran 40 TruTrips with Stinger spoons and they accounted for most of the fish – short and keepers. Best colors were Perch, Nascar, and Chicken Wing.

Speed was 2.5 over 40ft.

NOTE: Mayflies were bad and the smoke/haze terrible.

Hi all, my plans to fish/post have been hampered this week so far. The air quality due to the Canadian fires and very healthy mayfly hatch has kept the boat in the channel behind the house. Winds due to change this afternoon to East so fingers crossed can wet a line and hope the fish are not full. Those planning a road trip to the western basin for the holiday weekend keep an eye on both. See you on the lake.

I’ve been reading all the posts the last month since our first/only trip to lake erie on my own boat. We trolled bandits and did really well. From what I’m gathering from my little internet knowledge is the walleye are moving deeper, and allot of people switched to crawler harnesses and spoons. I’m just curious why? I was just wondering if bandits still work by adding a 2 oz snap weight to get them to go deeper this time of year. We are planning a trip for next weekend and heading out of turtle creek. Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again to everyone that posts updates on here.

Fished the line east of KI. Monkey puke stinger was the best today, but only on the 3 setting on the dipsy. No luck on a 0 or 1. Speed was 2.6-2.8 SOG. We sorted through 20 or so shorts, no farm animals. Bigest was 24″. No bugs, except their floating remains, lots of those

Fished 3 1/2 hours with a buddy this morning a mile off crane creek in 14 – 15 feet of water. Picked up 10 keepers and a short casting harnesses. The grade of fish was very good as we had two around 17 and remainder were 19 to 21 inches. The wind was close to ideal for the first two hours then direction and velocity changes affected our success. We used 1/2 ounce slip sinkers with either red and white beads or fluorescent chartreuse and white beads with a gold fish scale Colorado blade. Our count was 8 so the fish we caught were close to the bottom.

Caught 20 or more sheephead with a few fish Ohio sized ones.

We got out yesterday afternoon just the two of us to do a little hunting and work on a few new setups. We tried several places between Cedar Point and the islands. We caught fish everywhere but mostly shorts. Trash fish were minimal. We worked dirty water to very clear. We found a program that produced more eater sized keepers.

Best program for keepers was 28 to 30 feet deep, didn’t matter how you got down there – riggers were the easiest and helped dial in that depth, Then we used 40 Tru Trips and inline weights to get in the zone. Any deeper and there were too many shorts, higher up it was too slow. Spoons worked best for us, size didn’t matter. Copper spoons in Dark green orange where best followed by purple.

We caught at all speeds but stayed at around 2.5 – 2.8 most of the time. Someone asked about temps the other day and I didn’t remember as I don’t monitor it much this time of year. The temps this time out were around 69 on the surface, it varied a little with dirty water a little warmer. At 30 down the water was a consistent 68.6. Pretty much stratified top to bottom in the 40 ft of water we were targeting.

NOTE:
Still allot of Mayflies.
There were allot of nets North of Kelleys not marked well. They are marked with dirty small floats (hard to see) with only one flag to the south. Be careful if you are trolling in that area.

Fished with John this morning, Saturday June 24th east of Pelee from 6-10am.Handled 18 keepers,7 shorts and one sheephead.Our 12 weighed 28lbs at cleaners.Speed was 2.0-2.3 mph with biggest 22″.We ran all meat today with spoon harness off our 2 dipseys running at 3 setting.Had 2 inline boards with gold double willow harness on a #2 tadpole.Our white spoon harness on dipsey did very well today and caught all day.Changed out other dipsey to a double willow harness in gold after a while.Had dipseys initially at 40 and 45 and the harnesses at 45 also.Seams the #2 tadpole and dipsey at 3 setting run at same depth at the same lead.So whatever lead starts catching it’s easy to switch the dipsey or tadpole to that same lead too .About halfway through our day the bite changed and changed our leads to 50 and 55.Had a nice overcast sky and some drizzle to help the bite too.Sun came out when we got back home to boot