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Results 6/15
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
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.
6/6 Solo report
Got to Mazurik about 4:30 and headed out before sun-up to try and do some fish locating for the day. Went north until I was maybe a mile and a half NNW of Kelley’s and started marking some fish in 45 to 50 FOW. Started trolling cranks (bandits and a PWC) in a ENE direction. Managed to get a few eater size higher in the water column, but wasn’t seeing the good marks like I wanted to, so I headed a bit east to the Kelley’s shoal area. That area definitely produced the best for me. It was shallower, 30 to 38 FOW, where I started getting better marks, with a lot of the marks at 18 to 22 feet down. Best sets were 40 and 80 back. The bigger walleye came at 80 back, both on Khaki-Brown back bandit. The other 2 lures that produced well were blue/chrome Reef runner and a Sexy Chrome PWC. Speed was 1.9 to 2.2. It was a gorgeous day on the water, started with a SW breeze and more overcast and then really calmed down around 10 with the sun coming out a bit more and by noon a breeze started picking up from the NW. Had my limit before 10 then just fished for fun for a few hours. Best fish was a healthy 27.5 incher weighing in at just under 7 lbs. Also caught quite a few sheep and another 10 pound channel cat.
Dipseys with crawler harnessed
Left Catawba at 8 yesterday morning and set up West of Kelly’s. Started with 2 dipseys on #2 with spoons and a long line with a 44 Magnum. After an hour with only a few shorts, I put on a single blade worm harness and picked up a couple of keepers. Switch the other lines over to crawlers and continued to catch nice eaters the rest of the day. Even stopped the boat, and with little wind, caught a few more casting. Probably landed 20 keepers all day. Headed home with my 6 eaters at 2.
Conquest June 10 troll
Gassed up the 25 Boston Whaler in west harbor and was set up at the boarder corner at Gull Is. at 8:30. Pulled with and through a large pack of boats for an hour with few marks, few dropped fish and one short. Trolled west out of pack with two boarded Bandits, two boarded Jet 40s with Stingers and two big Dipsies with Stingers. Constant checking and adjustments produced two-man limit, 12 shorts, 7 dropped, 3 junk and one lost spoon. Best producers: Jets 35-45 Blueberry Muffin, Dipsies 45 and Chrome Blue Bandits 85.