Monday, July 11, 2016

Lake Erie at It's Best

Fished with Captain Daryl, Mark and Joe. Temperature this morning was in the lower 70's and when we quit fishing it was in the upper 70's. The wind was out of the southeast around 10 knots when we started fishing and backed down to around 5 knots after a hour into the trip. The waves were about a foot when we started and laid down to less than 6 inches. A great day to be on Lake Erie. The water temp is 76 Degrees. Started fishing in the swamp up close to Woodtick Peninsula trolling towards the 3 stacks with wiggle warts set at 50 feet and 40 feet behind the boards. We were on the fish right out of the gate but most of the fish were caught off the 40 foot set up so we switched both sides to 40 feet. We caught the first 9 walleye pretty quick and then it shut down. We thought the calm water shut the fishing down. We were deciding where to move to and before too long we were back on the fish again in 12 feet of water. We just stayed put and punched our 4 tickets. Kept 24 walleye and one perch. Had about 16 short walleye and a couple sheep head that we put back. Our game plan was to take two boats fishing today but my shoulder was not very good this morning so we fished with Captain Daryl aboard the Lucky Strike with his new auto pilot, and boy is it nice!

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