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Ice Fishing Western basin

Last year a couple of friends invited me to go out ice fishing with them up north. I was like not even interested until they told me it was a heated shack and the ride out was in a heated 4×4 and then I was like ok. I was still hesitant but I am glad I went it was a great time. We fished for white fish and everyone up there said they were better than walleye and after trying them I would have to disagree, but to each is there own. I was wondering if they have ice fished on Lake Erie in the western basin and if the ice gets thick enough for heated shacks? I was thinking it would be nice to take my friends out for some walleye
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Beaver Stick

I found this today on the south Shore of Johnson’s Island. I’m guessing it came from the Sandusky River. Perhaps someone familiar with the area west of Sandusky Bay has an idea where the beaver could be that worked this stick?

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jig tying

waiting on spring no boats in water we had to pull a little early due to water level and sand bar might be a problem in spring we will see just when perching was getting good out in front of wards 18 ft of water got 50 fish one day 3 guys then 39 pounds next day 4 guys plain spreaders and perch rigs buddy makes rigs with the flies on them he gave me a few baited it up with shiners from bite me 2 my old shop soon as i put it down double next day 22 pounds 3-guys same spot took a day off went out again and hit bottom with a strong swest wind we turned around went back to dock season over water came up a day we got to ramp to pull boat at the mouth of wards the sandbar is bad other boats got stuck getting to bad there and seems like were last one dredged might have to move marina after 45 years. ben tying jigs year round. happy thanksgiving a few pics 419 708 0131 ask for scott

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5 minute video recap of my 2022 season….:)

Good morning,
I just wanted to post this here to say, “Thank You!” to all my customers who fished with me this past season.

If you have 5 minutes to waste, and want to watch a video recap, (ignore the silly music just turn it down, because I wasn’t going to pay for copywrited “good music”…lol)..give it a look. It’s definitely not professionally done, but it reminds me of all the fun I was lucky enough to experience with some great folks over the 2022 season.

2022 Juls Walleye Fishing Adventures SD 480p – YouTube

Thanks for reading my reports, and leaving reports of your own, on this site. It’s a great community of good people willing to share their knowledge, and it is appreciated.

Keep up the great work! 🙂

Juls

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Combo Trip: Jigging and Trolling

Had an epic combo trip yesterday in the cold. We started out jigging in the D-River and had our limit in 65 mins. We caught 17 that way and then it slowed down. We decided to venture just into the lake and pull some of my custom baits. We caught 33 in about 3 hours, plus another 6 or 7 monster smallies. We must have lost another 5 or 6 fish during the chaos.

35-40 back at 1.6 – 1.9 mph, into the current (12-15 FOW) was the ticket. Best patterns were Smokeshow Shad, Pimp Daddy Perch, Glow Wonderbread and Blueberry Cheesecake.

Several times we had 3 or more on at once. One time, we had 5 on at once and then the 6th one had a drive-by. We only landed 3 of the 5. One got off as I was horsing it in. The other got off as I was trying to swing it into the boat. Towards the end I was only putting out 2 lines on my side, because 3 was too many to deal with as fast as they were going back. They were all nice eaters, but nothing bigger than 25″.

It’s been a while since I had a trip with that kind of action. Early in the day I set a goal that we would get to 50 fish landed. My partner said, “I have heard about people getting 50 fish in a day, but I would have to see it to believe it”…..he saw it, and now he believes it…:D. BTW, we kept 12 eaters and the rest were immediately released.

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Huron, November 2-3

We fished Wednesday and Thursday out of Huron with good success. Beautiful weather obviously helps. We motored straight out to 38 fow both days and set up when we began to mark fish on the Helix. Thanks to information in Captain Juls reports, we fished bandits unassisted at 120 and 110 with the inside bandit down 40/40. All depths caught fish. We had the most success using bandits that were predominantly white. Black headed wonder bread, sea sick frog, ivory with red eyes were the best. We had two man limits by about 1130am. We launched about 7am and avoided most of the traffic at the ramp. Fish were not that concentrated and we caught a nice grade of fish both days, averaging 20-22″ and about 3-5 lbs. Great way to finish the season. Have reservations at Little Ted’s in the spring to start again. Great resource to have access too.
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Fishing with Jeff Baker, Jeff, and Will….11/3/2022

Jeff called me last night, and said, “I’ve been reading your reports, and it looks like it’s going to be nice this week…can we get out? We were a reschedule from October”. I said, “Tomorrow is supposed to be nice, but then it gets windy again for a couple of days, can you go tomorrow?” He said, “I’ll have to check with my crew, but I think we can make that happen”. And, they did. 🙂

Huron was a zoo again yesterday, so I didn’t want to deal with that mess, and pray that someone didn’t damage my trailer while it sat in an overcrowded parking lot. We launched out of Marblehead, and had the launch pretty much to ourselves, except for another captain friend of mine, who was there waiting on his crew, and a family of three launching a pontoon boat to go perch’n. It was very relaxing. 🙂


We headed out, and started out at Airport Reef in 34′ of water and trolled the outside edge of the reef up towards the tip of the island. We landed 4 walleye in that one long pass. There was one set of perch nets, set up off the tip of the reef, and surprised me….we were kind of close, but with quick assessment, quickly figured out there was no danger of getting in it. We were on the single flag end, and on the outside of it, so all was well.


Captain Bobby Greene, who was the other captain at the launch, sent me a text to tell me he had moved from the area I was in, and found some good marks to the east. He sent me the numbers, and it turned out they were right on top of the marks I laid on my Helix last Saturday and Sunday, so I told my guys we were moving over there.


We picked up and made took a ride to the east, and set up again. We were running Bandits and Reapers unassisted by the reef, and only caught one of the 4 walleye on the Reaper, so we took all those off and put 4 more Bandits out again.
Since we were in the area I was last weekend, I decided to try the program I ran last weekend, too.


Bandits unassisted, behind the Off Shore boards, on the starboard side at 120, 110, 100, and 85 back, and with the 2oz Guppie weights running at 35/85, 35/65, 35/50, and 35/35 on the port side.


Bandit colors that worked well today were….
Daydream
RC Crush
Red Headed Wonderbread
Red Head
IB Frozen


There wasn’t a lot of traffic out there, and at one point, there was a red StarCraft next to us that looked like they were trolling pretty fast. I was doing 1.6-1.7mph, and because of the angle he was running, I couldn’t tell how fast he was actually going, but it looked fast. I got on the radio…..”Red StarCraft are you on channel 79?” At first there was silence, so I figured he wasn’t, so I put the mic down, and turned around to check the boards. At that time, a voice came over the radio, and I think he said his name, but I didn’t make it out, and he said my name, and asked how we were doing. I told him, “We have 10 in the box…what speed are you doing? You look like you’re hauling ass, and hauling in fish at that speed, too.” He told me, “2.0mph going south, and 1.6-1.7 (I think that’s what he said on his slow speed) going north. Red and white Bandits at 120 back”. He was finishing up, and just fun fishing by that time, so I thanked him for his info, and dug out some red/white Bandits to put out on the starboard side.


He didn’t lie. They worked. Thank you for the info, Mr. I can’t remember your name in the red StarCraft! We were able to put 8 more fish in the cooler in time to finish out their 3-man limit. I appreciated the help. 🙂


Jeff Baker (I’m using his last name, because there were two Jeff’s on the boat, and JB booked the trip with me)….he and his friends fish together all the time, and he wanted to learn how to use the inline boards. They have done other charters, but he said they didn’t let them do anything, but reel in the fish. The Captain set all the lines. I told him when we got in the boat, that if they really wanted to learn that I would teach them, and they could set their own boards, and they would be proficient by the end of the 6 hours.


They started out a bit shaky, but a couple of hours in, and they were setting lines just fine. They were even able to set the Off Shore boards back out in their original positions without having to move other boards out of the way. I was so proud of them. They did a great job! We only had one small tangle, and never lost a fish, so I call that a successful trip…and, that makes me happy!


Jeff asked me a lot of questions, and wrote my answers down on his little notepad, so he could remember the information, later, when they set up their boats with Off Shore boards and dipsies.


It was a fun morning, and a beautiful day on the lake. The wind was light out of the south in the morning, and then went down to practically nothing by 1:00. Some bugs showed up when the wind died, too, but they weren’t too annoying.


The guys had fun, and I have no doubt that they will be able to duplicate what they learned today, on their own. And, with a little more practice, they will have the confidence to keep on troll’n on. 🙂


I’m off until the 11th, and hopefully that weekend will be nice, so I can get out a few more times, before I stop for the season. This little pup of mine needs some attention and some training, so that’s my job in the off season, this year.


Stay tuned….


Capt Juls

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