SOUTHWEST CORNER OF SOUTH BASS 5/18

Started late and set up at 10:00 am at the southwest corner of south bass. Trolled northwest toward green with excellent marks. Started catching immediately finished the day with 26 walleyes. All fish were caught on 40 Tru-Trips with Michigan spoons back 35 feet. Best speed was 1.8 knots. With the weather beginning to stabilize the walleye fishing has been excellent and will continue provided there are no major fronts. Take advantage of this time of the year before the Canadian Soldiers arrive in June or elevated water temperatures due to higher ambient temperatures.  See you on the water!

NORTH WEST CORNER OF KELLY'S ISLAND 5/17

Fished the northwest corner of Kelley's Island starting in 20 feet of water and headed west to 27 feet of water. Caught 26 walleyes for a total weight of 101 lbs. 40 Tru-Trips with Michigan scorpion spoons on 35 to 45 foot leads. The speed varied from 1.6 to 1.8 knots depending on the our direction. The best spoon colors were Pooh Bear purple, Pooh Bear chartreuse and Jager Bomb. The largest fish was 29 inches followed with two at 27 inches. I have heard larger fish are being caught on the east side of Kelly's Island west of the Airport.

SOUTH OF GREEN ISLAND 5/15

Storm Team Construction returned for a second charter and the walleyes were very cooperative. 37 walleyes were caught running 40 Tru-Trip Divers and Michigan Stinger spoons while running 35 and 40 foot leads at 1.6 knots. Pooh Bear purple, Pooh Bear chartreuse, Helmut and Jager Bomb caught all of the fish. We fished about one mile south of the island.  An east to west troll pulled most of the fish in the morning and north and south direction worked better later in the day running between
Green and South Bass. See you on the water!

NORTHWEST CORNER OF KELLY'S ISLAND 5/14

Fished from Carpenters point to the Northwest corner of Kelly's Island and only managed to catch 6 walleyes. Pulled all harnesses on 40 Tru-Trip Divers with 35 leads taking most of the fish. Best speed was 1.6 knots.  Marks were good but could not get a program started. Moved to American Eagle Shoal and started catching immediately with the combination noted above. Caught another 12 walleyes before the out of town customers had to leave to attend a golf outing.   Ran gold willow leaf blades taped with various colors and matching beads. The largest fish was 29 inches. Many of the captains have switched to Michigan Spoons and are limiting out daily in this area.  Thanks to the Storm Team Construction for a great day on the lake. See you on the water!

AMERICAN EAGLE SHOAL / SATURDAY

Great day 37 walleyes no hawgs but fish ranged from 16 inches to 27 1/2 inches. Majority pulled on harnesses and 40 Tru-Trips pulled 25 to 35 feet back. Speed ranged from 1.6 to 1.8 knots. A majority of  captains pulled Michigan Stingers and pulled their limit in the same area. Our fish came on both colorado blades and willow leaf blades again. Green and yellow beads and pink and purple blades on the willow leafs and gold/bronze colorado blades worked the best. A north south troll pulled more fish than any other direction.  See you on the water!

NIAGARA REEF HAWGS

Fished two miles northeast of the green can on Niagara Reef. Started casting for the first two hours and pulled three fish and dropped two with one nice 27 1/2 inch fish. We switched to trolling with 40 Tru-Trips pulling harnesses on all ten rods with Colorado blades and Willow Leaf blades. Within 3 hours we had 23 walleyes which included 4 fish O's. The new blood red Tru-Trips have produced some nice hawgs this spring. Trolling on a south to north bearing produced most of the fish and running in the trough gave us several triples. Running 40 and 45 foot leads at 1.8 knots worked best. No pattern on blade color all worked well.  See you on the water !

RATTLESNAKE / NIAGRA REEF

Saturday's weather was calling 2 foot waves or less and changed Friday night to 3 to 5 feet so we headed for protection from the strong northeast winds and fished between Middle Bass and North Bass. We started trolling pulling Reef Runners on one side (80 foot leads) and 40 Tru-Trips on the other side (40 foot leads). Trolling west to east produced six fish in about three hours with a speed of 1.6 knots. Only one fish came on a Reef Runner (Copperhead) and the  balance on 40 Tru-Trips with #5 Colorado blades, purple/gold, gold with a red lightning bolt and gold/bronze. Due to the area becoming congested with boats we opted to move to Niagara Reef where we fought  5 footers most of the day. We eventually fished with all 40 Tru-Trips and harnesses. Color didn't matter but 45 foot leads and a speed between 1.6 to 1.8 produced another 11 walleyes so we finished with 17 for the day. See you on the water