Walleye

Fished all weekend out of Anchor Pointe Marina on Lake Erie. I can't believe that these fish are still hanging around!! Usually by this time the water is way too warm and most fish have headed for the Central Basin. I was on a bit of a research and development mission per say as I wanted to give some different spoons a chance to catch some fish. Everytime out I have been experimenting with some different baits and have still beeen able to get into some fish. This time I gave the Honeybee spoons a good wash and fished them about 50/50 with the usual Stinger and Silver Streak spoons. All spoons caught fish in a variety of sizes as did some spoon harnesses that I have been playing with.

Friday evening we fished for a bit SW of West Sister and came home with 12 fish and a few throwbacks. Saturday morning we filled a four man limit with 24 fish and about 8 undersized fish. We were done by 11 am and got to enjoy the rest of the day hanging out with kids at the sandbar in Maumee Bay. Sunday morning we hit the area again and the fish weren't in the exact same area but we still managed to come home with 12 and 6 throwbacks. The beauty was that we took all fish in fairly shallow water around 22 ft, with a variety of baits and fished everything from dipseys, to inline boards, to the big boards. On saturday we found a pod of big fish and worked them and managed to come up with a few 6 pound fish! Very surprising as most fish were in the 16- 20 inch range and usually the bigger fish moved out early on.

Once we found the fish we would work those waypoints and try to run most everything at the same depths. Inline boards worked well on saturday and the big boards worked well on sunday. Dipseys took the occassional fish but 90% of fish were on spoons, the rest were either on spoon harnesses or the regular crawler harness with Gulp worms. Had one Honeybee spoon that was hot all weekend in a blue and purple color scheme, other than that supermann took a fair share of fish as did oil slick. 16-17 feet down, out away from the boat over 22-23 feet of water seemed to be the ticket.

I think this was my last hurrah on the Western Basin, will be trying to do some Lake Michigan salmon fishing and will then be moving to the Central Basin to fish a couple of tournaments this fall for the hogs! Good luck if you get out. It seems that most boats have switched over to perch fishing but there are still plenty of eyes for anyone looking to get out. The fish just seemed to have broken up a bit and are now more scattered in smaller schools.