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I was out today with a buddy. We tried in close off turtle creek but the water was pretty dirty still. Moved to niagara reef where we were yesterday. Picked up 7 in 5 hours. Caught all fish on purple 3/4 ounce jigs. We tried casting spinners tipped with worms but no takers. Water was 49 degrees. Hopefully a few days of sunshine will warm up enough to start a better bite

Got out for first time yesterday.Was a tough bite after that 3 day blow.Started out NE of kellies.Water clarity was about 18″.Fished from 10-5pm and got 10/34 lbs.Caught them from 70 -120 with speed 1.7-2.0mph.White perch color caught 3 of our fish early at 80 and 90 but that dried up and took us 5hrs to catch our last 4 fish on taco salad and Pooh bear purple at 120.Heard others struggled yesterday too.Heard the bite was much better today.But was a gorgeous warm flat day on the lake yesterday.Did catch one white bass but we did not miss a fish all day luckily.

We went out in the afternoon to start to put together a program after the big blow. We hit 4 places that typically hold fish this time of year. Water color was better than I expected but ranged from dirty to clean.

The fish were scattered and we picked one here and there. We did not work any one area hard but kept trying new places. We had 5 quality eyes with one still pre-spawn, 5 good eaters, and we had 4 fish hooked on the outside of the face. My guess they were slapping at it. We released the pre-spawner and the fowl hooked.

Best leads were bandits 80 back at 1.8 mph, and super rogues down 25. Taco Salad was the best Bandit color and the rogues were blue silver.

Got a new boat (commander elite 20/50)this winter. Been up to Erie a handfull of times with guides and finally broke down and got a boat big enough for Erie. Within reason. I’ve been doing google searches for lodging and have found the Arlington inn? That has docks and lodging. Just wondering if anyone had suggestions for lodging with a boat and trailer, that’s safe enough to leave ur stuff in ur boat? Or a place to stay that has a dock. So u don’t have to load and unload every day?

My wife and I were out this morning doing some jigging. We started at toussaint reef but the water was pretty dirty. No good there. Water was 47 degrees. Clarity improved significantly before we got to niagara. We picked up 5 in a little over an hour. I didn’t do much to help the cooler filling though. She caught 4 and lost one right at the boat. Fished a total of 3 hours. We used purple 3/4 ounce jigs. The vast majority of fish we marked were on the bottom. Maybe with some sunshine the water will warm enough to start the fish taking a spinner with worms…

Well much of the Lake is all muddied up again. Don’t need a satelitte photo, web cams show it. Except the east sides of the Islands. Water temperature has dropped over 4 degrees. Tomorrow (Thursday) is good, light winds. Then the NE wind comes in for three days over the weekend. Mostly moderate, so fishable, but after the big stir-up W / NW winds you have to wonder what this will all do to the fishing right when we should be entering the best time of the year (warmer weather and plenty of close feeding walleye). Seem like deja vu? Round two.
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Looking to come up for a few days with my nephew and his friend so want to do my best to keep them on fish so was wanting to see if people would like to network together and share information to help us all be more successful. Hopefully lake won’t be too roughed up after blow. We are going to fish this Friday through Sunday which is the 5th-7th of May. Was wanting to fish around islands but if it’s muddy I will push east to huron or lorain. If anyone is interested I could start a group text?

Does anybody use the Sams Pro Release / or Amish Outfitters? If so do you use them with the split ring or do you secure the release wit a bolt and nut. I want to try them but would greatly value opinions from anyone that has used them. Thanks in advance

The afternoon wind forecast I was hoping for came through. It was a beautiful afternoon on the lake today and the fish cooperated too.

We worked the area near the line NW of Kelly’s. We had 5 in the boat before we could get the entire spread out. We caught 21 and brought the smallest 12 in for the freezer/fryer. We fished from 1:00 to 5:00.

The program that worked was Bandits unassisted 90 to 110 back at 1.2 mph. And the riggers oscillating 25 to 30. We had mostly post spawn females but there were a few males mixed in. It looks like there staging to put on the feed. Hopefully this next blow won’t mess them up. We were fishing slower and deeper than what had been working. There was allot of radio chatter singing the blues and why we adjusted right out.

We had 3 over 27 with one fish Ohio all on a chartreuse/orange Long A. Once again it was oscillating 25 to 30. This was the clear winner and accounted for 6 of our biggest fish. We had 2 on a gold supper rogue on riggers also.

The best Bandit colors was Taco Salad, Orange Crush, Sun Spot, and a Blue with chartreus belly I can’t find the name (I only have one but will pick up a few if I can find them, as it has been a stead producer lately).

I will be land locked until after the next blow. Good luck to everyone going out tomorrow!