Weekend is coming...thought I should report...:)

Tuesday and Wednesday I was over in Huron with Frank Shipley and his friend, Carter. We launched at 5:30 and headed east towards "The Castle" area. The Mayfly hatch is still coming up...thick, by the way...

We ran Flicker Minnows up in the top 15' of the water column, but the fish had moved deeper, so eventually, we moved the baits down to 80/90/100 back at a speed of 1.9-2.1mph.  We managed to pick up 8 keepers...although, nothing big, and had a bunch of throwbacks too.  It wasn't a stellar day, but they had fun and the weather was perfect, so it was a nice trip. :)

Wednesday,  I met my crew at Huron again, because my customer, Sam Arnold and his Son, Sam, have a boat docked over there now. Sam's friend, Ray, who is from Indiana drove in the night before, and we all met at the ramp at 5:30.  Again, we headed east, set lines, and then got dumped on with a heavy downpour. I had told them to bring rain gear, but none of them had it with them, so they got soaked....ugh.

It only lasted about 10 minutes....then dried up and stayed cloudy all morning. Port Clinton had had just over 5 inches of rain the night before, and the town was flooding, along with my backyard, so it was the last thing I wanted to see!

We moved around a few times, and I showed Sam some areas to check as the season changes, and the fish migrate.

We ended up with 12 eaters, with about 7-8 throwbacks, a couple white perch, a sheepshead, and a white bass.  They had a good time, but again, not a stellar "catching" trip....sigh.

Today, I had my regulars...Steve and Jeremy Chapman, along with Jeremy's cousin, Adam.

Our plan was to launch out of Catawba at 7am, so I arrived there at 6:30 to get things ready.  By the time they finally arrived, we were heading out of the park at 7:30.

They wanted to walleye fish and then do some bass fishing, so we started with the walleye.  We headed north to Rattlesnake/North Bass and set up between the two islands and headed east with our Flicker Minnows and Stinger Spoons in tow.

There was a light WNW wind at around 10mph, and the waves were pushing the 2' mark, so I trolled with the waves.  We marked some fish there, and picked the first one up, but it wasn't happening there, so we picked up and moved to the east of the Bass Islands to set up another troll starting at Lucy's and pointing towards the lower end of Gull Island Shoal.  

We ran the Flicker Minnows at 57/65/80/90/100...one Bandit at 55...and, two Stinger Spoons behind #40 Tru-Trip Jets at 37 and 45 back. Speed was 1.9-2.3mph.  Eventually, every bait caught something today, but the 80-90 was probably the best.

It was one long pass the entire way, and we picked away at the walleye until we had 13 in the box (a handful of throwbacks too), and decided to go bass fishing for the last hour and a half. We would end that pass by the red can at Gull.

Thanks to Capt Kevin's info (he had a bass trip the day before) we were able to set right up in an area and start casting.  The Tube Jig proved to be what they wanted today, as the lipless crankbaits didn't catch anything.

We had a good time, and Jeremy was happy to have finally caught a bass on Lake Erie. lol woot! woot!

I'll be back out tomorrow, and if the winds behave, I am heading to the other side of the lake, to see if there are any bigger fish left in this lake. Not everyone is happy with "eaters". ;)

Fingers crossed....Stay tuned!

Capt Juls