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We are down to under 100 tickets left please help us sell out this year. The tickets are $20 or 3 for $50. We are offering for the last ones 7 for $100. The drawings start April 1st and you have a chance for a charter every day of the Ohio Pick 3 evening drawing every day in April. We are a nonprofit with no paid staff so 100% of the donations go towards our events on Lake Erie that we offer for free to wounded heroes. Tickets can be bought online at Walleyes For Wounded Heroes or in person at Erie Outfitters in Sheffield. thanks to all of our captains that make both our events and this raffle happen at no charge. Without them, we could not do the number of events we do for free for the heroes. If you are around June 7-11th, we will have our next event at Ted’s Cottages on Marblehead and we have 70 heroes attending to fish for 3 days.

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There hasn’t been many reports, so I thought I would share what I could. I was ask to ride along for moral support with a new captain on his first charter, so I’m somewhat limited to what I can share.

We put in a long day but sent his Kansas crew home with 24 solid eyes. The nice part was I ask them early if they brought a big fish cooler and they said they did. When I left for home one of them was headed to Walmart for a bigger cooler, lol!!!!!

For the most part we fished where we could in the west lee of Kellys. The wind was bad early but eased a little as the day went on.

I can tell you this. The P10s out performed the Bandits 3 to 1. They wanted more wobble. We trolled from .8 to 1.2 and run the P10s from 20/20 to 30/30 with 2 ozs. The Bandits worked best at 100 back unassisted.

Early P10s in 24 carrot and clown did best but early afternoon all the white baits did best, Floyd and one like Floyd but purple head and a few custom Bandits – Baisicly white with a flow yellow head and one with a pink head.

Late in the day Huff Daddy and Poo Bear Bandits rocked – they were hot for sure but we ran out of time and had a full box.

For those who don’t already know, the Perry Monument on South Bass Island (Perry’s Victory and International Peace Memorial, National Park Service) now has web cameras on top of the monument for public view. You can see the Lake (weather conditions) from multiple directions. Link below.

Lake Erie Shores and Islands has added a Marblehead Lighthouse web camera, which shows the Lake. Link Below.

View From The Top – Perry’s Victory & International Peace Memorial (U.S. National Park Service)

Lake Erie Webcams | Shores & Islands Ohio

The docks are in at Green Cove ramp. Now if we can get some good weather to get the water to clear up.

Anybody have any thoughts about launching a 36 foot with a 12 foot beam at catawba island state park? Upgraded to a bigger boat this year… Any feedback would be appreciated…

We got a good satellite shot today. It is starting to clear in the usual places.
Now lets hope we don’t get any more big rains.

Is anyone running the Lund Impact 1875 with 150 on Lake Erie. If so, how does it handle adverse conditions? Do you feel safe under most conditions? I will look forward to any response and assistance.

Well, the cabin fever seems to remain pretty steady for me with the uncertainty I see of cold weather forecasts, high winds, muddy water and reports of debris. The lake looks like chocolate milk now according to NOAA. I’m checking the sites every day…LOL. I noticed mentions in previous posts by Slim and Coho that early April was typically very good. So, I booked a room for the first week returning home on Easter Sunday. I enjoyed sharing info last year with a couple good folks on this forum like Markle and Kingfisher22. If anyone is interested in a little info exchange during that week in April, just let me know. I’ll offer up my celll #. Also, thank you again so much to the Captains here who continue to offer so much to us on where to start and what is working!
What a fishery. Tight lines and safe fishing to everyone!

Here’s an add-on to the first Gale post.

Below is the wind direction and speed from last night (Marblehead Station). The wind direction changed 90 degrees+, from NE to NW, in four hours, and it’s speed was the same. Around 30 knots from the NE to 30 knots from the NW. In 4 hours. The transition took about 2 1/2 hours.

Imagine what that did to the Lake currents, all through the water column. The Lake water is close to the same temperature right now, so there is little barrier to the water mixing and moving. The entire Western Basin, and the nearshore areas of the south shore of the Central Basin, will probably take a minimum of a week to really start to recover from this. A lot depends on the winds over the next week. The only thing that is certain is the fishing for the near term is probably going to be… well you can come up with your favorite word for “bad to terrible”.

03/03 6:00 pm Wind Direction NE Wind Speed Knots 29.9 Gusts 42.0
03/03 9:36 pm Wind Direction ENE Wind Speed Knots 11.1 Gusts 20.0
03/03 9:42 pm Wind Direction NE Wind Speed Knots 12.0 Gusts 17.1
03/03 9:48 pm Wind Direction N Wind Speed Knots 14.0 Gusts 24.1
03/03 9:54 pm Wind Direction NW Wind Speed Knots 18.1 Gusts 25.1
03/03 10:00 pm Wind Direction NNW Wind Speed Knots 20.0 Gusts 24.1
03/04 12:00 am Wind Direction NW Wind Speed Knots 28.0 Gusts 33.0

The wind speed started to really drop around 6am this morning. As of 8:30 this morning it was 8 knots from the WNW.

Add to this all the rain runnoff coming in from the rivers, and it looks to be a mess for quite awhile.

Boo.

From NOAA Weather, Friday morning, March 03:

“LAKESHORE FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 4 AM EST SATURDAY
East to northeast gales of around 35 knots with gusts of 45 to 50 knots and waves of 6 to 11 feet are anticipated in the western basin of Lake Erie this afternoon and evening. As a result, water levels at Toledo may rise to 80 inches above low water datum late this afternoon into this evening. This may cause flooding of marinas and other low-lying areas around Metzer Marsh.”

Kinda a repeat of the big flood of Spring 2021 (Memorial Day Weekend?), except the Lake Water level is down from the record highs that year.

This, along with all the chocolate milk flowing in from the Maumme, Portage, and Sandusky Rivers should really muddy up the Western Basin for some time (saw the Maumee yesterday – high flow and really muddy).

Yuk.