No Wind, No Bugs and a Few Fish

Fished with Captain Dan. Temperature this morning was in the lower 70's and when we quit fishing it was in the lower 80's. The wind was less than 5 knots out of the northeast with no waves. The water temp is 75 Degrees. Just like the last trip, the temp when we got home was in the 90's. Picked up our bait at Jeff's because we were not sure if Anglers Landing had any minnows. Jeff had the pin head shiners which are hard to fish with. Fished the same area we have been fishing and we never had to move. The bite was steady until we had someone blow by us less than 50 feet away and then the catching shut right down. Took almost 20 minutes before we caught another perch. Kept 78 perch on a nice day on Lake Erie.

Another Tough Day

Fished with Joe. Temperature this morning was in the upper 60's and when we quit fishing it was in the upper 70's. By the time we got home the temps were in the middle 90's. Just too hot for this time of year. The wind was out of the northeast very light, with just a little chop on the lake. Ideal fishing conditions. The water temp is 75 Degrees. Started fishing in our usual location with the plans of not moving too far to find some fish. Well, the fishing was tough and we just could not find a school of perch. We would catch about 4 fish very fast and then it would just shut down for 15 minutes. We stayed and picked away at the fish and then for the last hour of fishing we decided to try the swamp for some perch. The conditions in the swamp were not very good (green water from the algae) but we set up anyways. Dropped the first line down and bam, perch on. We only caught 3 fish here so we called it a day. Kept 36 perch on another tough day of fishing.

Wet, A Little Rough and A Few Fish

Fished with Joe and Daryl. Temperature this morning was in the upper 60's and when we quit fishing it was in the lower 70's. The wind was out of the northeast around 10 knots with waves about 2 feet. The water temp is 69 Degrees. The rain started about 9:30 and it finally quit just before we quit fishing.Started fishing where we were on the last trip and we only caught a couple of fish. Made about 4 moves in this area without any luck so we headed to our hot spot from last year. Only caught one fish here, so we headed towards the Toledo Light House. Set up here and we caught a few dinks so we moved across the channel and fished with a small pack of boats. Caught nothing there, so we made one last move into the swamp and we started to catch some perch. Stayed here and just picked away at the fish until we ran out of time. Kept 45 perch and we put a whole lot of miles on the boat.

Nice Day on the Big Lake

Fished with Joe. Temperature this morning was in the middle 60's and when we quit fishing it was in the lower 70's. The wind in the morning was out of the southeast less than 10 knots and on the ride back to the harbor it was out of the southwest less than 10 knots. The waves were around a foot. The water temp is 66 Degrees because of all the cool temps we have been having at night. We set up 4 miles east of the E buoy and we never had to move, which makes for a good fishing trip. The catching was good but the only problem was it was a short bite. The perch would hit very hard and then it would be gone, you had to pay attention today to catch some fish. Only had about a dozen small perch that we put back and about a dozen white perch that we put back. Kept 88 perch for the trip.

Had Help Counting the Fish Today

Fished with Captain Daryl and Mark. Temperature this morning was in the lower 50's and when we quit fishing it was in the lower 60's. Pretty cool for this time of year. The wind was out of the northwest less than 10 knots with waves less than a foot. The water temp is 68 Degrees. With the big northeast blow last weekend and the cool temps at night, the algae is starting to dissipate and the lake looked pretty good today. Started fishing about 4 miles east of the E-Buoy and Mark caught the first and only fish right out of the gate. Made a move another 1/2 mile to the east and set up and we were on some fish. We stayed put and enjoyed the day catching some perch. The bite slowed down a little and we decided to call it a day with a nice box of fish. We pulled lines and were heading back to port when we were pulled over by the Ohio DNR. They asked if we had an Ohio fishing license and we said yes. They then asked how many perch we had and Daryl said less than 90. One of the officers boarded the boat and checked our licenses and started counting the perch. When he was getting towards the bottom of the cooler we were starting to get a little worried that we were over the limit. He put the last fish in his bucket, looked at his hand held counter, and said we had 82 perch. Everyone was happy so we each went our own way.