Went out with my wife today. We started out a half mile northeast of the entrance to wild wings marina. Water was still a little dirty. Lost first fish almost at the boat. No more activity. Moved north to locust reef. Marked a few fish but didn’t get any. Moved north almost to cone reef and picked up 6 nice fish. Jigged with 3/4 ounce black or purple jigs. Fished a total of about 2 1/2 hours. The fish slowed down when the wind died. We had been moving around .6 mph but the wind died and we slowed down to .3 mph. Water was 43.5 to 44 degrees. 23 to 24 feet deep. Very clear.
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Eclipse live stream
If anyone is stuck at home or work or knows someone out of state, I will be live streaming the solar eclipse on my Lake Erie website. One camera at home (fishing report page at the bottom), the other on the road near the Lake (webcams page, Chartercam). Don’t have the boat in yet, so I can’t livestream it from the Lake. Home cam is on now, road cam should hopefully be setup atound 2:00 or so, but may take longer. Total eclipse isn’t until just before 3pm. Click the text link below.
Anybody help a weekender?
I’m up for the weekend and could use some help on location, depth and color. Can troll or jig. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks fellas (and Juls)!!!
Weather – YUK!
NOAA Western Basin nearshore forcast: YUK!
REST OF TODAY (Tuesday, April 02) …East winds 15 to 25 knots. A chance of rain
showers with a slight chance of thunderstorms, then a chance of
rain showers and thunderstorms late. Areas of fog this afternoon.
Waves 4 to 7 feet. Waves occasionally around 9 feet.
.TONIGHT…East winds 15 to 20 knots becoming southwest. Areas of
fog in the evening. Showers with a chance of thunderstorms in the
evening, then a slight chance of showers overnight. Waves 3 to
6 feet subsiding to 1 to 3 feet. Waves occasionally around
7 feet.
The water temperature off Toledo is 46 degrees, off Cleveland 41
degrees, and off Erie 40 degrees.
REST OF TODAY (Tuesday, April 02) …East winds 15 to 25 knots. A chance of rain
showers with a slight chance of thunderstorms, then a chance of
rain showers and thunderstorms late. Areas of fog this afternoon.
Waves 4 to 7 feet. Waves occasionally around 9 feet.
.TONIGHT…East winds 15 to 20 knots becoming southwest. Areas of
fog in the evening. Showers with a chance of thunderstorms in the
evening, then a slight chance of showers overnight. Waves 3 to
6 feet subsiding to 1 to 3 feet. Waves occasionally around
7 feet.
The water temperature off Toledo is 46 degrees, off Cleveland 41
degrees, and off Erie 40 degrees.
This will probably muck it up good for at least 4-5 days, maybe nore. Not to mention I drove through heavy rain coming back from the Lake to Columbus on Monday, and more moving through the State today, so the Maumee, Portage, and Sandusky Rivers will be dumping lots of muddy water into the Lake for probably the next 10-12 days.
Fishing will probably be tough through the weekend.
🙁
Fishing with Jason and Warren…3/28/24
Well, this report is not what I wanted to report after being off for since my last trip on March 3rd.
I usually don’t schedule trips until the last week of March, but Mother Nature had given us a reprieve early in the month, so I took advantage of that, and got a couple of trips in, but she changed her mind mid-month and brought the cold and wind back.
The lake conditions right now are typical for this time of year, and yesterday, it was muddy inside and had mixing water a few miles out.
Jason brought his 12-year-old son up for another trip with me. The last trip was a fall trip two years ago, where we had a successful walleye trip, added with some bonus perch fishing, over by Vermilion.
Unfortunately, this last trip was not so successful. While it was fun fishing, the catching part of it was poor, for us. As I would learn later, the area that I started in, which was over by South Bass, would be where we should have stayed. But, we weren’t marking fish, and my patience was running low, so we made a move over to the NE side of Kelly’s.
It was strange, that my Humminbird wasn’t marking any fish the entire way over there from South Bass. It had me scratching my head, and wondering if I was making the right move.
We set up on the SW corner of Kelly Island Shoal, out in 42′ of water, and headed NNE from there. We started in some muddy water, so we had time to get set up, before hitting the mixing water.
We ran Bandits behind Off Shore boards at 125, 120, 100, 97, 90, 80, 70, and 60 back. We hit a pocket of fish, and the fun began, but it would only last a half at the most. We caught 5 fish, on the 125, 120, 97, and 90 leads, but threw one little 15″ fish back, thinking we would keep catching, but that was the last fish we would catch.
Taco Salad (Stock Color), Potato Bread (Custom Color by Bruce Hochstetler), and Mint Condition (Custom Color by SlimShady Customs) took all the fish. Taco Salad (3), and the other two took one each.
Speed was 1.4-1.6mph on the Fish Hawk and 1.7-1.9 SOG.
Water temp on the Fish Hawk at 18′ down was 40 degrees.
We tried picking up, and making another pass through the same area, but those fish were gone already, so we made another move, and tried again, but didn’t catch any more fish.
We made another long move over to the NW side of Kelly’s, but the wind was picking up, and we didn’t mark any fish there, so we just decided to head in.
At least Warren was able to reel in those 5 fish that we did catch, and his arms were a little sore from it, so he was satisfied. 🙂
Jason was understanding, and said we will get them next time, so it’s nice to know they will be back again, and that makes me happy.
I don’t like not limiting out, but the day was full of sunshine, and wasn’t as cold as we thought it was going to be, so it was fun to get out and go fishing. I just wish the catching had been better. As it turned out, from what my friends told me, had I just kept going north from where we started in the morning, we would have gotten into some fish.
I have to work on my patience….lol
My trip for Saturday has been rescheduled, due to rain and neither myself nor my client want to fish in a cold rain with an east wind, so he’s rescheduling. My Sunday trip, is a regular from Wisconsin, that bought one of my boats, and likes to bring it down for a few days to fish, after he fishes with me, and, while Sunday looks fishable… Monday through Thursday looks like crap, so he’s rescheduled to later in the month….it’s also Easter Sunday, so it was an easy decision to reschedule him.
I didn’t have a trip scheduled on Monday, but I do have a three-day trip scheduled for Tuesday through Thursday, with some folks coming from 11 hours away, so we will look at the forecast again on Sunday, to see if Mother Nature will change her mind, and calm the &%^*$ down, and let us get their trip in. If the forecast doesn’t change from what it’s showing right now, I won’t have them drive that far, just to sit on shore.
Stay tuned….
Capt Juls
I usually don’t schedule trips until the last week of March, but Mother Nature had given us a reprieve early in the month, so I took advantage of that, and got a couple of trips in, but she changed her mind mid-month and brought the cold and wind back.
The lake conditions right now are typical for this time of year, and yesterday, it was muddy inside and had mixing water a few miles out.
Jason brought his 12-year-old son up for another trip with me. The last trip was a fall trip two years ago, where we had a successful walleye trip, added with some bonus perch fishing, over by Vermilion.
Unfortunately, this last trip was not so successful. While it was fun fishing, the catching part of it was poor, for us. As I would learn later, the area that I started in, which was over by South Bass, would be where we should have stayed. But, we weren’t marking fish, and my patience was running low, so we made a move over to the NE side of Kelly’s.
It was strange, that my Humminbird wasn’t marking any fish the entire way over there from South Bass. It had me scratching my head, and wondering if I was making the right move.
We set up on the SW corner of Kelly Island Shoal, out in 42′ of water, and headed NNE from there. We started in some muddy water, so we had time to get set up, before hitting the mixing water.
We ran Bandits behind Off Shore boards at 125, 120, 100, 97, 90, 80, 70, and 60 back. We hit a pocket of fish, and the fun began, but it would only last a half at the most. We caught 5 fish, on the 125, 120, 97, and 90 leads, but threw one little 15″ fish back, thinking we would keep catching, but that was the last fish we would catch.
Taco Salad (Stock Color), Potato Bread (Custom Color by Bruce Hochstetler), and Mint Condition (Custom Color by SlimShady Customs) took all the fish. Taco Salad (3), and the other two took one each.
Speed was 1.4-1.6mph on the Fish Hawk and 1.7-1.9 SOG.
Water temp on the Fish Hawk at 18′ down was 40 degrees.
We tried picking up, and making another pass through the same area, but those fish were gone already, so we made another move, and tried again, but didn’t catch any more fish.
We made another long move over to the NW side of Kelly’s, but the wind was picking up, and we didn’t mark any fish there, so we just decided to head in.
At least Warren was able to reel in those 5 fish that we did catch, and his arms were a little sore from it, so he was satisfied. 🙂
Jason was understanding, and said we will get them next time, so it’s nice to know they will be back again, and that makes me happy.
I don’t like not limiting out, but the day was full of sunshine, and wasn’t as cold as we thought it was going to be, so it was fun to get out and go fishing. I just wish the catching had been better. As it turned out, from what my friends told me, had I just kept going north from where we started in the morning, we would have gotten into some fish.
I have to work on my patience….lol
My trip for Saturday has been rescheduled, due to rain and neither myself nor my client want to fish in a cold rain with an east wind, so he’s rescheduling. My Sunday trip, is a regular from Wisconsin, that bought one of my boats, and likes to bring it down for a few days to fish, after he fishes with me, and, while Sunday looks fishable… Monday through Thursday looks like crap, so he’s rescheduled to later in the month….it’s also Easter Sunday, so it was an easy decision to reschedule him.
I didn’t have a trip scheduled on Monday, but I do have a three-day trip scheduled for Tuesday through Thursday, with some folks coming from 11 hours away, so we will look at the forecast again on Sunday, to see if Mother Nature will change her mind, and calm the &%^*$ down, and let us get their trip in. If the forecast doesn’t change from what it’s showing right now, I won’t have them drive that far, just to sit on shore.
Stay tuned….
Capt Juls
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Walleye report 3/26/2024
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Thanks;
Captain Sam
Jig fishing
Don’t read anything on the Jig bite is anyone still Jigging.
If so about when does it slow down. Coming up last week of April
If so about when does it slow down. Coming up last week of April
Docks & Fish Cleaning
I saw the report that the docks went in a couple weeks back at Catawba. Good news.
Anyone know if they are also in at Mazurik’s? Also, when will they open the fish cleaning station there? Am considering going this weekend.
Thanks in advance.
Water Clearity
Please discuss water clarity, such as how far down can you see in Dirty water, decent colored water and clear water? What do you look for? Thanks
Video on off shore tackle planer boards set up option
I am starting a video Blog this year that will highlight tackle tips and techniques and how I use them to catch walleye and perch on Lake Erie. I will also be doing weekly reports on the fishing from the week and how and what we have been using to catch the fish. If you have a subject you would like covered to receive detailed information on let me know and I will work it into the mix.
Thanks captain Sam “Pork Chop”