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Lines in the water shortly after sunrise. We were approximately 2.5 miles south- southeast of “Canadian spur” bouy (south east of Kelley’s)
Quit at 10 am with 15 keepers and 13 shorts.
Most of the fish were on disc divers (dipsey, slide lite bite) some on bandits. Not really a color pattern for us.
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Fishing with Dick and Brad 6/15/2023

Fishing with Dick and Brad … 6/15/2023

I’m tired today, and I’m having a little trouble being motivated to write this report, so I’ll just keep it short and give the details of what we used and what caught fish.

Dick and Brad are a couple of my regular clients, that fish with me a couple of times a year. They met me at Mazurik’s at 5:15, and we launched at 5:30. We headed north to the waters east of Ballast Island, trolling north, towards Lucy’s point.

There were fish marks on the Helix, but there were also the marks of a decent sized Mayfly hatch emerging from the mud and rising to the surface.

We set up with two Off Shore boards off each side, along with two dipsies off each corner set on the zero and three settings. The dipsies were set to the usual starting numbers of 30 and 35 on the zero setting and 43 and 47 on the three settings.

Two Bandits ran on the starboard side, behind the boards at 90 (Sun Spot) and 70 (Chrome Pink Panties) back. Two Reef Runner Mag 44s ran on the port side at 50 back…one blue/chrome, and the other the black/gold.

The dipsies were catching fish, and the first one came before we got the second rod out. It was only 16 inches, though, but big enough to go in the cooler. Most of the fish caught on the dipsies were smaller fish…many were from last year’s hatch, so not very big. Some were even from this year’s hatch and only 4 inches long…so freak’n cute. They all got a kiss on their boo-boo, before being sent home to grow bigger.

The Sun Spot Bandit caught a nice one at 90 back (BTW: all the fish caught on cranks today were the bigger ones in the cooler).

After seeing the Mayfly hatch coming up, I decided to make a run to the east, and ended up setting up about 4–5 miles east of Middle Island. (From the reports I’m reading on Facebook, I should have kept going east…lol)

This time, the Mag 44s were taken off, and all Bandits were used behind the boards. Red Headed Wonder Bread at 80 back caught, as did one that I don’t know the name of, but I can best describe it as IB Frozen with a black spot behind the gill. That one caught a couple with a 2oz snap weight at 50/40 (total of 90 back).

Spoon colors that worked are the Red Head Wonder Bread Scorpion, Blueberry Muffin Yeck, Blue/Silver Hammered Scorpions, and one Scorpion that Dick thought was called, “Monkey Puke”…but, after looking it up just now, it’s called, “Frankenberry” .

We were in deeper water out there, east of the island, over 41–43 feet, so the dipsey settings were changed, and we caught fish on the 43 and 50 back on the zero setting, and 65 and 80 back on the three settings.

Speed was 2.1-2.5mph per the Fish Hawk…which was 2.4-2.8 GPS.

Water temp out there was 66 degrees.

Dick and Brad were happy with their trip, and are looking forward to their next one….as am I. 🙂

I’ve rescheduled tomorrow’s client, because he’s one of my regulars, who always brings along different people. Tomorrow’s forecast is calling for rain showers in the AM along with NNW winds, so we opted to change it to a day with better conditions for his crew.

I’ll be back out Saturday, with someone who will be my oldest customer to date…he’s 97 years old… his daughter wanted to give him a fishing trip, so it’s just him and her.

Stay tuned…

Capt Juls

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Far Western Basin Fishing

New to the forum here! I have a boat on the Ottawa River and I’m going to try to head out Saturday for some Walleye. Has anybody been out near the Toledo Harbor Light recently? I’d prefer to stay in Ohio waters, but any advice is welcome!
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6/15-6/17 fishing

Hi Y’all. Thank you for the consistent reports. Driving out this afternoon to fish tomorrow though Saturday and headed home Sunday. I see many good reports up North. In your opinion, is there still good fishing from Green/Rattlesnake to the West and Southwest? I will post info and am happy to share info as usual with anyone who would like to.

Thanks!

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Draggin the Line with John 6/10

Went out fishing Saturday with John and his daughter Lauren and her boyfriend Tony. John had them get Canadian licenses so would have less boat traffic. Left the dock at 5:15 and headed east of the bass islands. Treated to a sunrise over Pelee and had a fish in the box by 6am.Headed east, downwind on a long 2hr pass that put 18 fish in the cooler. Had out 4 bandits on inline boards, 2 harnesses on #2 tadpoles at 45 and 2 spoon harnesses on #3 setting dipsey at 40 and 45. They all caught fish. Then we drove out of the fish so far that it took us another half hour to get marks again when we turned around. By the time we got back to the marks the bite had changed too and the fish were deeper. We changed the dipseys to a 60 lead and added a third dipsey at #1 setting at 40. Changed the harnesses to 60 but left out the original 3 bandits at 100,80 and 55. The bandits did not catch another fish…should have added a weight to them but was still getting marks at 20ft so left them there. We caught our final fish by 11am all on the deeper spoons and harnesses. Our 24 weighed 62lbs. Speed was around 2. 3mph.Caught our first 3 shorts of season and 2 white perch. Biggest was 25″. Also got a close up look at the white pelicans when a commercial boat dumped some junk fish in water in front of us. The birds had a field day.
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Casting report

Went out solo at 7am from east harbor. Played around by mouse island reef for 30 minutes and got 1 12 inch perch on a weapon but only sheephead otherwise. Headed north to a point about halfway between the north end of Kelly’s and the monument. Lots of Mark’s but only caught undersized ones. I saw some boats up at the border and went up there. Nada. Saw a few trollers get a few eaters but it was dead. Headed back toward Kelly’s about a mile out and just for giggles tied a reef runner on. If you don’t know… they are similar to an erie dearie but haven’t been made in 20 years but are all over flea markets and yard sales. Picked up 1 eater 17 inch fish on that and half a dozen more perch all about 11 inches plus a few more short fish.

I did see casters get a few and I thought about trolling but I have a fairly big boat that needs 2 bags out to slow to trolling speed and I just didn’t feel like rigging all of it up today for just me. It’s a lot of stuff to put in the water and mind solo.

I see lots of reports of guys getting the odd big perch this year and I was on a school of them. Wish I had had minnows.

Still 7 jumbo perch and one eye isn’t anything to cry over and I had fun.

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Fishing Day 2 with Chris, Dave, and JP… June 10, 2023

This morning, I left a little earlier than I did yesterday, to go pick up my crew, because I wanted to put some new spoons away that I bought yesterday afternoon, but didn’t get around to taking them out of the packaging and putting them away. So, I pull in, put the baits away, and there is my crew, all ready to go, even though I was earlier than yesterday. lol Gotta love Wisco Boyz! 🙂

We hit the gas station for the usual, and headed out to Marblehead to launch. We hit the water at 5:20 and headed north. The weather was very nice. Calm winds from the west, partly cloudy/hazy sky, and a temp of around 70. I never looked at the air temp, actually, but I was wearing pants made of thin material and flip-flops, and I wasn’t cold, so it wasn’t below 65, or I would have been chilly.


Water temp, up on the line, was 64.9 degrees, this morning.


We set up over 35 feet of water and worked our way out to 40 feet. The cranks did much better today, than they did yesterday, and we were catching with Bandits behind Off Shore boards at 90 back and 50/42 (total: 92) with a 2oz snap-weight.
“Sun Spot” (stock)
“IB Infected” (DJ Custom Eye Lures)
“Green Clown” (Stock)
and a color I do not know the name of, or who painted it…sorry!


During a trolling pass from east to west, against the current, Sun Spot was running at 90 back, on the outside board, on the starboard side, and suddenly went flying back.
It was JP’s turn to reel a fish in, so he grabbed the rod, and pointed it to the port side of the boat, (which forces the planer board to stay back as it comes in, rather than coming straight to the boat, where it would have a chance to tangle with the inside lines). “I need to tighten the drag,” he said. I said, “Let me check it, first”. I tested the drag, and tightened it a little bit. I said, “That’s a big fish, you can’t tighten the drag too much, or you could break the line, and lose it. Just take your time..it will get here.”


He took his time, and it did get to the back of the boat, where Chris (or, was it Dave?) netted it for him. Luckily, it was hooked really well in the big fat/bone part of the upper lip, and wasn’t going to come off easily, because he got it up by the motor, and Chris (or, was it Dave? lol) couldn’t get the net in there, to net it. It was doing a lot of flipping around in that corner, and that’s when I saw the size of the fish…OMG..WOW!!
I had to turn around, so I didn’t have to watch that fiasco, and crossed my fingers that it would get in the net.


It did…and, high-fives and whoop/whoops were had by all! A measurement on the “Judge Ruler” showed us the tail just touching the line at the 30 inch mark. The scale read 9.28 pounds, though. I explained to them, that if that fish had been caught with a belly full of eggs, it would have easily gone 11 pounds.


Chris and Dave explained to JP, that this was a fish of a lifetime, and that people fish for a life time, and never catch one that size. He was very happy. He’s going to get a replica made of it, to remember this trip. I asked him to send me a picture of it, when it was done, and he said he would. 🙂


The dipsies kept us busy with mostly little baby walleye, but every now and then a nice eater would show up, and take the spoon offerings. Yeck, and BadMo Arrow spoons were the ticket for us today.
Zero setting at 35 and 40 back
Three setting at 45 and 55 back


Speed was all over the place this morning, and we caught fish on the slow side of turns, which I’m guessing was probably 1.8-1.9mph, and going faster… up to 2.7mph GPS which was 2.5mph on the Fish Hawk.


We had fish early, and then when the fleet of charter boats showed up, it slowed way down. We had two limits by the time they showed up though, so we only needed 6 more for their limit, and it was only 8am….we had time.


Unfortunately, we ran out of time, when they needed to get off the water an hour early to head back to Wisconsin. We managed their limits, and I reeled in a couple of mine, too. Today’s grade of fish was a little better than yesterday’s, so they were very happy with the results.


They had fun, learned a lot, and caught a lot of fish, and said they would be back again, and that makes me happy! 🙂


Tomorrow, I am fishing with a customer that I had scheduled for Tuesday, but since Tuesday is supposed to blow, he took advantage of the nice weather tomorrow, and the fact that I had tomorrow open.


Stay tuned….


Capt Juls

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6/9/23

After watching wind reports, decided to try Friday afternoon for a few hours. Got on the water about 1:00 pm, and headed west of Kellies. Set up about 1 mile south of red buoy in 24 ft. water and headed North. Started with 4 rods, all bandits 40, 50, 60, and 70 ft. back, covering color spectrum to see which worked best. Seemed anything with blue caught most of the fish ( blue chrome, daydream ). Settled in at 70 and 80 ft. back unassisted, added blue and silver Scorpion spoon on dipsey set # 1 setting , 30’ back and finished afternoon with 12 nice eaters. Lost 4 reeling in closer to boat, and only caught 1 sheepshead. Caught bonus small mouth at the end.of trip.
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Fishing with Chris, Dave, and JP… June 9, 2023

Started the morning off with a little entertainment from my nightly critters, that visit my porch buffet. Two Opossums wandered up on the porch, while I was watering the garden next to my boat. They never noticed me, so I kept quiet to watch them. They were two full-grown adults….cute as could be! At one point, I was talking to them, and they were oblivious to me. Then, Dexter started barking at them through the front door, and that big fella just looked at Dexter as if to say, “Yeah, buddy, I hear you, but I’m hungry, and I know you can’t get to me, so I’m just going to keep eating”….and, he did. 🙂

When I finally got back in the house, I got ready, and said my goodbyes to my pups and off I went to pick up my Wisco crew from the White Caps. I told them I would be there at 5AM, but got there at 5:45, because I had to dig out some window washer fluid to fill my truck’s washer reservoir. I got tired of the flashing warning telling me it was empty.


To my surprise, my crew was already outside waiting for me. I finished my task, and we headed into town to fill up the Vexus and truck with gas, and get some ice for the cooler. Then, we headed to Mazurik’s to launch. It was 5:30 when we hit the water and headed to the north.


It was a little rough this morning, but not too bad….just 1 to 3s. I was trying to decide where I wanted to start and headed towards Middle Island, but the lack of marks on the Helix had me turning west as we got closer to the border. I set the boat down when I started marking some fish, and pointed the Terrova south, with the baby Merc pushing us at a speed of 2.2-2.3mph (Fish Hawk speed was 2.0mph).


We went through a lot of different crankbaits, and here’s what caught today…


IB Infected (DJ Custom color) Bandit at 60 back behind the Off Shore board.
Green Clown (stock color) Bandit at 50 back


Reef Runner Mag 44 in Black/Gold, Blue/Chrome, and Purple Glass Perch (60, 50, 40 back…longest lead on the outside board). The Blue/Chrome at 50 back caught two.


Baby Spros (the 85s) in Chrome Perch, Blue/Chrome, and Purple Glass Perch (60, 50, 47 back)


Crankbaits caught the bigger fish today, but the numbers came on the dipsies on the zero and three settings. Zero settings at 27 and 30 and the three settings at 43 and 47 back. Yeck, BadMo Arrow, and Scorpion spoons worked today. All different colors were working, but if the spoon had dots on it, it seemed to work better.


We were fishing over 30-31 feet of water. I just realized, I never looked at the water temp this morning. I’m guessing, it’s near 70, though, if it’s not already there.


I had the speeds up to 3.0 GPS (2.5-2.7 on the FH), and they bit at those speeds, too, so they will bite faster baits now.


We caught a lot of shorts, and had to keep checking the dipsies for wee little ones, that were hanging on.


My crew did a great job, and only needed a little refresher course, since their trip with me last year. Chris and Dave fished with me last year, but JP is a first-timer, so he was new to it all, but eventually caught on to the program, and could almost keep up with me. 🙂


I have them again tomorrow, and it should be a nicer day, with light west winds, so it will be another fun morning in the boat with them, I think. Now, that they are trained again, it will be an easy morning for me, if I can just put them over some fish. woot! woot!


Stay tuned….


Capt Juls

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Tag team?

Heading up this weekend with a coworker and we are gonna try to get into some ‘eyes. Just the two of us bouncing around drift fishing (25’ rinker not ideal for trolling but we will 2 line troll if needed).

Wondering if anyone wants to get a group text going so we can work together on spots. Did that in early May with some guys and it was great working together and seeing the results!

Just PM me your number and I will start a thread tomorrow or Friday.