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Fished near Sputnik in about 30
FOW. Boated 12 eyes, 2 throwbacks. Water super clean near Canadian line.

Went out this morning for a little fishing. I started east of toussaint reef and worked my way north and east drifting and casting. 3 1/2 hours later I finished east of niagara reef. Ended with 3 keepers and one short. Caught 2 on bottom bouncers with red and white beads and hammered gold blades on a worm harness and 1 on a harness with chartreuse and white beads and a hammered blade. Water was 59 to 60 degrees. The breeze was pretty good for drifting but not catching. Lots of trollers in the area.

The fishing has been up and down the past month but mostly we have been catching. Taking a lot more hours on the water to get the job done. We have moved back to the islands now and have been doing very well. The fish movement seems behind due to the cold water temps but the action has been heating up the past few weeks. We have been doing very well
With spoons and flicker minnows. The smaller baits are working much better right now. Still running some bandits but the smaller baits are catching better and at a surprisingly slow speed. 1.8-2.0 has been best for me. That’s a slow speed for jets and dipsy but it’s working. Here are a few ice as of lately the past 3 days we boated 28 limits of walleye. I have a few dates left in June if anyone wants a trip give me a call.

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Worked 12 hour shift Sunday night, got off work 4 am went home threw stuff in truck, hooked up boat and picked up my buddy and headed towards the lake. Got to vrbo at 1030, threw luggage in cabin and headed to Catawba launch. got on the water around noon, by the time we got to destination and setup around 100. We only ran out 4 lines so we didn’t have to mess with boards. First time for me with my own boat on Erie. We fished just west of green Island and trolled in north and south direction. We ended up catching 9 walleye by 6:30 and stopped because other buddy made it over and was at the house. We trolled lengths of 65, 80, 90, 100 back. our most productive baits were a smithwick Rouge in dark purple striped at 65 back early in the trip and smithwick rouge in chartruse and orange 100 ft back towards the evening. First time out went ok, but would not have been near that good if it hadn’t been for this forum. Met a now new friend DW72 and he helped us out a lot. Gave us a direction to go and start and it was a great help. Going to be fishing a few more days and so is he, so we are keeping in touch and texting each other our progress. Next couple of days should be good ….Thanks to Don’s help next couple of days should be fun. Thanks to everyones reports and suggestions from this forum, inaugural trip with my boat should be a success. I’ll try to post more when I can.

Same program as previous report from afternoon if 5/21 and then 5/22 Fished from 30 FOW down to 26. A couple miles west of Green towards the power plant. Center of the action was D Can. Stayed just outside of huge pack of boats and a couple headboats. Most were casting. Green clown and pink/yellow were best at 100 feet back. Other colors were good too including taco salad, Fermi-Gold from Slimshady and an IB Frozen. Speed 1.9-2.2. Hope to be back in 2-3 weeks.

How many enter the walleye slam? I received an email about it but as I was looking at the rules I didn’t understand this one, If fishing from a boat, only registered participants may be on board. So if I take my grandkids fishing I would not be allowed to enter any fish I catch if they are in the boat and not registered?

Came out of Gem Beach about 10am and headed to American Eagle shoal. Lots of boats. Trollers and casters. Didn’t see any nets while heading for NE of pak. Started drift casting weight forward lures. There was only 2 of us. Used only 2 rods. No hits for about half hour. Made adjustment to drift and started picking them up. Fished till 2pm to get limit. All were 18 to 21 inches. No shorts and a couple sheep. Could have been a quicker drift but at least it wasn’t flat. Beautiful day on the lake.

We started where we left off yesterday by the line NW of Kellys and NE of N Bass this afternoon for an 18 fish limit.

Surface temps were 56-57 and 15 ft down 53. The spoon bite is heating up.

Our best overall bait was a Spro Madeye 120 in Golden Perch 80 back. It caught 9, but we were running two on each side.
The best spoons were Michigan Stingers and Scorpions in Nascar working 25 to 30 down.

Speed today was 2.0 on the Fishhawk.

Based on wind forecast we will be off tomorrow. Good luck and stay safe.

Buddy and myself heading over from WI to fish the general Put in Bay/Catawba area from Wednesday 5/17 through Friday 5/18. Tentatively planning to start around the islands tomorrow to get acclimated.

Anyone interested in exchanging numbers to share info/network and help each other out (will be easier to text vs connecting here)? If so, send a PM with number and will establish a small group.

Tight Lines!
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