VERMILION WEATHER BUOY 7/29

Returned to the weather buoy for the third consecutive day along with my casting friends Deb, Vern, Dave and Dane Schisler. I thought after a couple days of excellent fishing, casting this area could produce some nice fish. I sure missed this call and we only managed 8 walleyes after the wind took a break making drifting difficult.  Got lost of sheep head with one individual I won't mention by name seem to catch all fish ohio sheep head. HER sheep head reputation continues. Even with all the sheep head she did catch the second largest walleye of the day.  Great job! See you on the water!

VERMILION WEATHER BUOY 7/28

Returned to the weather buoy again with Dan Doyle and experienced the second straight day of excellent fishing. Managed 37 wallyes with a box of 130 lbs. Our program was the same as the 6/27 post. The difference in the trip was the weather with five and six footers. Everyone over came sea sickness and managed to catch their fish. Great job! It sure was a long ride back to Anchors Away Marina. See you on the water!

VERMILION WEATHER BUOY 7/27

After fishing Gull Shoal last Tuesday and only pulling 10 walleyes moved Friday to east of the Vermilion weather buoy and fished with Dan Dolye and friends. Pulled 36 walleyes  that weighed over 125 lbs. with the largest fish at 30 inches. Excellent day! Spoons pulled white bass and peach so a switch was made to all harnesses.  Green/orange and green/red beads with orange and green tapped willow leaf blades produced the most fish. Ran a north south direction with speeds of 1.7 to 1.9 knots. Used 40 Tru-Trips with leads of 80, 90 and 100 feet. Lost of bait fish in the area and marked lost of perch. Fish are usually in this area every year at this time but the down size is the cost to run this area. See you on the water!

NORTH BASS NORTHWEST OF THE KIDNEY 6/22

37 Walleyes caught north west of North Bass while fishing along the Canadian Line. Moved west this trip after the blow on Friday made everything east of the Island muddy. Switched to all Scorpion Spoons and finished by 1:30. Worked a small school the entire time running west to east. 1.8 to 2.0 knots into the waves and 2.0 knots with the  waves. Pooh bear purple, cat/dog and blue berry muffin were the most productive spoons. The largest fish was 25 1/2 inches.  I will be switching to all metal for now. See you on the water!

EAST OF KELLEYS 6/19

12 walleyes with a two man trip by 11:30 fishing the east side of Kelleys Island. Fished with both harnesses and Reef Runners with all but one fish taken on the Reef Runners. Pink Lemonade and a orange bare naked with yellow dots. Best speed was 2.0 knots. See you on the water.

GULL SHOAL 6/18

Slow day limited out with 18 walleyes all on harnesses trolling on the west corner of Gull Shoal. Concentrated on two very small pockets of fish but finally managed to get all of them. Tolled east to west early morning and later in the day north to south again the best speed was 1.8 to 1.9 knots.

DOWNTIME

Fished last Tuesday and pulled by planar board mast from my top after installing new motors. Not sure what the root cause of the problem but suspect reels are too big so I am installing smaller reels to reduce the torgue. The fishing remains good around Middle Island, east of Middle Island along the Canadian line and Kelley Shoal. Should be back in the water Tuesday 7/17. Anyone looking for larger fish should concentrate around the north end of the sand bar all the way to Lorain. Good Perch reports have have been received from the north west corner of Pelee Isand, south of G can, south of Middle Island and east of Kelleys Island airport strip. See you on the water!

NORTHWEST CORNER MIDDLE ISLAND 7/10

First trip after spending the week of the fourth at PIB. Managed 36 walleyes just northwest of Middle Island in Canada. Lots of drifters which made it hard to really get to the fish. Fished around the perimeter of the pack and once it thinned out started trolling further east until we caught our limit. A west to east troll was the best direction with a east speed of 1.7 knots and a west speed of 2.0 knots. 33 of the fish were caught on harnesses with willow leafs 60 to 65 feet back on 40 Tru-Trips. 3 fish were caught on high divers pulling Pooh Bear Purple Michigan Stinger spoons 52 back. All in all it was a great day. See you on the water!

WAGON WHEEL PELEE ISLAND 6/30

Fished today with the Schisler brothers Vern, Dave and Dane and what a great day we had casting. We limited out around 1:30 after getting a late start with 18 walleyes the largest 26 inches.  We were casting  small gold colorado blades with small red beads. Reports received that walleyes are still being caught along the Canadian line east of the weather buoy. Anyone wanting to share there success with fellow anglers just comment on my blog. See you on the water!