Lake Erie, Erieau

Well got out today with couple other guys. Lake was like glass. Lines wet by 7am. Started trolling SW for hour got 1. Pulled our 4 rods and spun around to head NE. Picked up 6 real quick, spun around again SW got 2, back over again finished off 3 man limit. Only difference was the way sun hit worm harnesses. when NE the sun would have been more on the blade I think this is why we got most of our fish going NE. We were done before 1030. threw back the 1 fish that was under 17, biggest about 20, with several in the 20" range.

Nice haul of treats Steve.

Arnie

Good looking box of fish. Nice to see you had calm water …. makes everything better when the water is calm.
Congrats and enjoy your fillets.

Enjoy the eats

I’m not fully sold on the sunlight on the blades thing - it may be, I don’t know the depth you were fishing or even fish walleye much, but I’ve had it with lake trout where we’ll catch them going one way, and the opposite way nothing, and I mean trolling at 60-70 feet on bottom. Can’t imagine there’s enough sun light penetration down there to make a difference. I think it’s just the way she goes sometimes - you ever see all the cows lined up in a field facing the same direction before a rain? Maybe it’s a similar deal
Anyway, good catch

Guess all you guys had great dinners, there's a few pounds in there.

I have always thought it was a current issue when you are catching fish going one direction. Maybe you get the preferred action on your lure going into current or with the current.

My experience is that they will put their nose towards upstream into the current. so going with the current they should see it coming sooner.

Arnie

Ok, so this is why I put in my post about the direction I was going when caught most of the fish. I was hoping for some insight from others. I have noticed this may times over the years. I was in lake erie so there would be a light current obviously and I was I guess going somewhat in the direction of flow, but again it is very light and not noticeable. We were in 57 FOW fishing about 28ft down give or take.

Only thing I could think of was the light, but I was or am just guessing.

we were fishing last Friday not far from port Bruce. The morning was slow, only a couple small ones, then we found that they want worms and found where we were getting more hits. The wind was steady SW. We were going back and forth between those points and picking up 2 -3 fish each pass. We even culled a couple. I kept the same speed by GPS, didnt bother with the probe there. The direction we were going didn't matter at all. It was sunny and hot. We were done before noon.

Nice haul of eaters


unless you have a probe down there, we have noticed that heading into the current generates more hits by far and since our speed is very slow.......1.3 or so that makes going with the current quite difficult. now this may vary in different parts of the lake, but last week when we got out again, we boxed out in short order one we figured the current out and went into it.


Arnie...you say the opposite and if that works for you...great

Great report and nice haul of fish… there’s an area I fish on Lake Huron that I have only picked up fish in one direction. Going the other way has not produced at all.

On Sunday we were further west near Wheatley and found a surface speed of 2.5 produced 2.2 at the ball (down 30 over 50+ fow).

Fire up the oil! nice Haul!