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Short report?
Fun morning out of vermilion today with Joe, Ron, and Dale. Trolled from Vermilion to Lorain at 2.3-2.5mph.
Dipsies on the zero setting did best at 60 & 70 back, and the three settings at 97 back.

PEC Lites with 2oz behind the Off Shore boards at 50/75 (125 back), 50/47, and 50/24.
Purple Tiger, Green Tiger, and a custom color I don?t know the name of?

Bandits ran on the other side with 2oz?same distances.
?IB Infected? (DJ Custom) was best
?Whiskey and Water? (Slim Shady Custom)
And another custom I don?t know the name of but was used a lot in the earlier reports back when I was running Bandits.

Then the bandit side ended up in a huge tangle somehow and took that entire side out of commission. Had to cut lines and will need to re-spool?Uffda! lol

They caught their 3-man limit and I caught 3 of mine before we headed back in. We went through a ton of sheep and white bass, too, so they stayed busy.

I have them again tomorrow, but we decided to try for perch instead of going for walleye again.

Stay tuned?

Capt Juls

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Fished Friday near G can. Two of us caught plenty of perch for a 2 man limit in 3 1/2 hrs. The problem was many of the fish were undersized (6? or so). We probably returned 20-25 back to the water. No sheep and 5-6 white perch. Beautiful day on the lake.

Caught perch yesterday and today at B can. Some nice perch with some throwbacks mixed in. ALOT of boats at B can this morning, many did well.

I?m 16 years old and love to walleye fish. I fish off a boat based out of Sandusky bay but often go out infront of cedar point to troll. Any tips or advice about lures, speed, and anything else helps out a lot as I am not the best.

Thanks!

If I come back to Huron State ramp what is my perch limit? The line dividing central from Western basin is close. 30 vs 10 limit.

We actually perched the last 90 minutes of light on Wednesday at Waterdog’s honey hole. We were using shiners on spreaders with no bling. My son landed 2 yellow perch that just barely hit our 8″ requirement. Returned one that was too short. My wife lost 3 at the boat. I didn’t even get a nibble.
Thursday, we started south of Green before sunrise. We went out in the dark but after sun up we only had a quarter mile of visibility. It looked like fog but it was actually the annual annual forest fire smoke from our friends up north. It burned my throat a little. The smoke would persist all day. You might want to check the smoke forecast before going, especially if you have asthma.
Anyway, my wife and son each landed a couple keeper yellow perch there south of Green while I got nothing again. Only two other boats came to join us before I got too bored with it. It’s just too early for perch in my opinion.
So we set up for trolling. This time of year, I would normally go to Lorain and troll deeper water out to the weather buoy and back. That’s where the big fish go when the water warms up, right? I would normally use big cranks and big spoons in hopes of catching big walleyes.
But we were at Green, so I decided to try out what I’ve read in a few posts lately. We trolled a wide circle around Green using little lures. Little spoons, Flicker Shads, and mini Reef Runners. As expected, the trolling was a lot more exciting than the perching. We were constantly pulling up drum and white perch. We also got two little walleyes there – 17″ and 18″.
Despite all the action, it just wasn’t very satisfying to throw back almost all the fish we caught. So we soon pulled up our lines and motored over to Round Reef. My wife and son began perching again, but I put on a crawler harness with a bottom bouncer. I pulled up another drum there, and a pretty big gobie. Maybe 7 inches or so. Big enough to consider for a second how much meat I could get out of it. We got one yellow perch there too.
We didn’t last too long before the black flies began to eat us alive. I was happy that all the other bugs seemed to be done for the year, but those black flies were vicious. If you go, be prepared to douse yourself in DEET every hour or so. Even with DEET, we had to drive fast several times to get some relief.
We drove back to Waterdog’s honey hole. This morning there were two headboats and two others right there. Could have been more, but we could still only see about a quarter of a mile due to that smoke. I used the same crawler harness while my wife perched. My son tried a Searchbait (to absolutely no avail). None of us had any activity at all there today. We weren’t even marking anything.
We didn’t stay long. It was hot by then. The breeze was dying down. The flies were awful. So we trolled one last time – in the direction of Catawba. Saw some promising marks here and there but only caught a white perch and a drum. Finally decided to call it a day. When we pulled in the lines, every one had a white perch on it.

I was trolling last week a few miles East of Kelley’s in 38-42 FOW and using big amish planer boards & size 40 jet divers to get my spoons down to 30 feet into the water column. I noticed that several times the jet diver would barrel roll and swim erratically and eventually surface because it flipped upside down (it happened with more than one of them so I don’t think it was just a defective one). It seemed most prevalent when I was using the dreamweaver Trip-Z divers but still occasionally happened with the Big Fish Tuff Tru-Trips 40s. A google search said this can happen at speeds in excess of 2.5mph and if pulling heavy tackle but I was trying to keep speeds 2.2-2.5mph and was just pulling stinger spoons. Is it possible that there was strong current to blame? Winds were only 8-10mph and 1-2 foot of chop so it wasn’t anything crazy. And if so, is there anyway to combat this and keep jet divers running properly?

For those who run big boards, what is your preferred diver to get spoons down to at least a depth of 30 feet? I do have size 3 tadpoles but I imagine that jets do a better job with bait presentation with their back and forth swimming.

Does anyone have any luck running size 40 jet divers at speeds > 2.5mph? If so, what is your secret to keeping them diving properly without surfacing? On the day I was fishing, I heard reports of people catching at 2.6-2.7mph so there will be times I will need to troll faster.

Is one jet diver better than the rest for it’s ability to dive properly? Dreamweaver vs. Big Fish Tuff vs. Luhrs Jensen.

It was frustrating to say the least having to keep resetting my lines and I was getting a lot of tangles from the jet divers swimming so erratically…Thanks in advance for any insight 🙂