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Had a great morning the day after the fireworks. We made the trek from East Harbor to west side of Middle Bass and Sugar Island.
Mayfly color beads w/silver blade and chartreuse with gold blade harnesses worked best. 2 of us got 9 Walleye total, w/ 8 keepers and one throwback, and not too much junk at all. 2 sheep, 2 cats. Zero white bass.
They were good sized fish, with a couple going over 20 inches and one big dog, 27″. Early fish were shallow, 14-19 FOW and last two were deeper at 25-27. Wind died at 10:30-11 AM, so we packed it in.

First perch trip of the year for me. Fished just SW of the Toledo harbor light in 14’ fow. Slow but steady pick, 40 between 2 guys. Nice grade of fish, 13lbs at the cleaners. Had 3 legit jumbos, 12-13 inches. 7-1130. Had a nice breakfast of 7 or 8 knats. The bugs were bad out there! Good start of the season.

Fished straight north of the amusement park in 45 foot of water. Trolled east with a lot of marks. The wife and I managed 9 keepers, 10 shorts, 10 sheep, and 2 white bass. One white bass graced us with eating a spoon and bandit. That was a lot of fun. 2.6-2.8 was best, the dispseys produced best at 30 feet down. Dirty white boy won the sheep head tournament, but caught the biggest keepers, so it stayed out. Monkey puke produced well too. Trolling east and south produced fish. We did hit swarms of midges, I think that’s what they were.

M. Miley

Went out solo this morning and got a limit of walleye in 1 1/2 hours in 14 feet of water north of crane creek. I found that if I stayed just a little shallower, I didn’t catch as many undesirables.

I also caught a 28″ catfish which is the biggest I’ve ever caught.

I fished with white and fluorescent green beads and a gold Colorado blade on a harness with a half ounce sinker on a six count

We went on our first perching trip of the year to the green buoy off of Catawba. It was pretty rough out there in the morning and we were the only boat out there until the winds died down. We ended with 50 perch, most of them being in the 8-8.5” size range. We had a handful of big perch with the biggest being 11.5”. We were using crappie rigs with emerald shiners. Overall I’d say it was a successful first trip of the year.

Good luck out there!

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.