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Oct 5 - Dave Harrison Same
report as yesterday, but the fish got bigger....many over 11 inches, near
the helo pad, they came in waves and a few boats stopped, and left after 5
mins...they should have stayed longer. Small minnows again. 32fow
Oct 4 - Dave Harrison
Colchester today near helo pad...minnows on a walleye rig (SMALL minnows).
70 perch, 2 guys, 3 hours...all over 8 inches with 5-7 real jumbos.
Only sorted a few small ones. the bite was light, and a light action
rod was the ticket...slow lift and they could not resist. What a great
calm day....be out again tomorrrow.
Oct 1 - John Sparkman Hello
I'm back! Had 3 weeks of salmon fishing Manistee Lake lots of fun. 9-30
Yesterday by Edison we got 9 lost two on # 7 hot steel
Sept. 29 - Danny Bloxsom Went perch
fishing with Jerry Hinton on the 27th for the the perch tournament and did
we catch them! Over 100! I had a blast. Thanks, Jerry and Greg
Warsow, for putting on a great tournament.
Sept. 29 - Jamie VanEngelen Sun,
Sept 27th went to Colchester for the perch due to the reports from other DWF
members. Good report - 3 of us limited in very short time. 15
lbs cleaned.. thanks to the DWF. (DW&PF)????
Sept. 23 - Mike Barkley Went
with Jerry Hinton, Greg Warsow & Mike "Tripleheader"
Pasik. Fished Colchester, general area of the mile marker 25-28 FOW
. Had to move around but ended up with 103 perch. Not true
"Jumbo's" but pretty nice fish. Jerry nailed it when he
said "Beautiful day on the water with good friends and catching
fish! It just doesn't get any better than that!!"
Sept. 22 - Greg Warsow Sunday
- Back to Colchester perchin' with Bob Clark & John Lewandowski.
Good ride to first spot and wind kicked up. Had a hard time
holding anchor. Made the ride to the mile marker and saw a couple
more DWF members there. Slow bite but size was quality
yellowbelly's. Bite was also very soft. Shiner's were the
ticket. Wind calmed down but was all over the place. Lots of
flies & bees. Ended up with 64 perch for 35 lbs gross. Bite
was turning on about 4 pm. as we left but I think it may be a better
afternoon bite. These three amigo's were very happy with the day and
quality of fish.
Sept. 22 - Greg Warsow
Saturday - To Colchester perchin' with Jerry Hinton, Bob Clark & John
Lewandowski. Second or third stop acting steady but not on fire. Size less
than 10 inches. Ended up with 80 perch for 21 lbs gross and 10 lbs net.
Good day, good weather and good friends.
Sept 22 - Paul Jocks Fished
Sunday 9/21 near weather buoy in front of Lake Erie Metropark between 9:00
AM and 5:00 PM in 12-14 FOW. Anchored and didn't move. Kept 50
perch between two of us. Threw back several small ones and kept a
few too (either me or the seagulls). Several doubles, many over
9" and 6-12"+ with one at 14". Also fished Saturday
near the 3 buoys and the weather buoy and kept 12 over 9". Had
to switch spots a few times to keep catching perch. Water clear but
a little weedy. Forgot the most important part, they were biting
mostly on chartreuse blade perch rigs with chartreuse beads tipped with shiners
large or small. Small gold blades with orange beads worked when chartreuse
didn't.
Sept 21 - John Watson Partly sunny,
air temperature @80 degrees, water temperature @ 68 degrees with waves two
feet or less. On Saturday, September 20, 2008 I fished with Mike
Cornnachia, John Wisniewski, Ann Gamacchia & Sheryl Klingbiel between
Fermi and Stoney Point in 23-26 FOW. When we got to Stoney Point, there
was a huge armada of boats(100 + boats) perch fishing. We started fishing
with the pack of boats but nobody was catchin' much fish. We relocated
several times looking for fish. We fished from 10:30 pm to 4:30 pm. The
bite was slow today. The lake was very turbid or churned up from all the
rain we got last week from the remnants of Hurricane Ike in Michigan. The
perch started biting about 12:30 pm today. We only took home 36 perch at
8-12 inches(ok, we kept a few small perch too). Tossed back a lot of small
perch less than 7 inches. 5 white perch (silver bass), 3 channel
catfish and one monster 24 inch drum (aka sheepshead or goat). We were
using minnows and nightcrawler chunks with perch spreaders with
chartreuse, green, silver, gold, hot pink, white and orange spinners with
red beaded snelled hooks. Basically threw everything but the kitchen sink
at em today. Got 2 pounds of perch filets in the ice box. Great time had
by all even though the fishin was slow! According to my good friend, Captain
Tim, the jumbo yellow perch should be in the Michigan waters of the
Western Basin of Lake Erie around early/mid-October / early November. Hope
the information helps! LOL. Good luck fellow anglers!
Sept 19 - John Watson On
Saturday, August 30, 2008 I fished with
William Doepker and John Watson IV off Stoney Point in 23 FOW. Took home
19 perch at 8-10 inches. Tossed back a lot of small perch less than 7
inches. Using minnows with perch spreader with chartreuse, green and orange
spinners with red beaded snelled hooks. We fished from 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm
and quickly ran out of bait in two hours! Great time had by all!
Sept 19 - John Watson On
Saturday, September 6, 2008 I fished with
Mike Cornnachia, John Wisniewski & Sheryl Klingbiel between Fermi and
Stoney Point in 23 FOW. When we got to Stoney Point, there was a small
armada of boats perch fishing. Everyone except us had moved further out by
12:00 pm. We fished from 10:30 pm to 7:30 pm. The perched started biting
about 12:30 pm and never stopped biting the rest of the day. We took home
118 perch at 8-11 inches. Tossed back a lot of small perch less than 7
inches. 31 white perch. A 3 man limit was only missed by one fish
because we ran out of bait! We caught numerous shad up to 8 lbs. We were
using minnows and nightcrawler chunks with perch spreader with chartreuse,
green, silver, gold and orange spinners with red beaded snelled hooks.
We never moved all day! Great time had by all! 21 lbs of perch live
weight = 9 pounds of perch fillets! The fish fry was awesome and fed 15
people!
Sept 10 - Jerry Hinton and
Tom Taylor headed towards Colchester for the first perch trip of the year
this AM. About halfway between Holiday Beach and Colchester (Middle #'s
N59/W03)in 25 fow we sat down to check things out and drink some coffee. I
saw serious bottom activity on my Lowrance and we decided to give it a
try. We never moved!!! We brought home 83 perch and must have thrown back
a 100 dinks. We ran out of minnows. Also a smallie and 2 sheeps. Minnows
and hooks with spinners did the job today. Our perch were between
7-10".
Sept 3 - Daniel Bryant Fished
Saturday Sept 6th east side of Amherstburg channel and east side
livingston channel using flat fish f5 handlining. Caught Four
walleye, one 3.5 lb small mouth Bass, biggest sheep head I have ever
caught didn't weight it, Had to be fifteen lb's. Went out around seven Am
came in about eleven Am.
Sept 9 - Ken Messinger Went
out to the candy cane stacks last weekend, behind Edison. Jigged/harnesses
with crawler and minnows for walleye. Had some skittish strikes in
deeper water. I think my misses with minnows were walleye, got some
junk fish w/crawlers. Looking for Perch tomorrow. Bass are
still good around the Banana Dikes, try the shallow sandy flats near
cover.
Sept 5 - Dan Allen Thursday,
late morning and all afternoon, fished the lower river at the mouth on the
Canadian side, plus just north of the Livingston channel on the Canadian
side. Caught 2 or 3 of everything - walleye, smallmouth, rock nass,
perch, even 3 JUMBO sunfish (yellow and blue bodies) Good day and had
fun!! Going upriver to Gregory's for the rest of the season.
See if we can limit out on perch in Sept/Oct on Lake St. Clair.....
Sept 3 - Tom Lulko
Saturday morning, went looking for perch, NE corner of Grassy Island. I
caught 1 keeper, 10 1/2 inches & 3 catfish. Useing a perch rod, 4 lb
test, what a riot. Caught a bunch of dinks, lots of fun.
Sept 3 - Daniel Bryant Fished
Saturday Sept 27th,east side of Amherstburg channel 13-16 ft water caught
two walleye nothing to write home about. water sandy, grass floating
handling using flat fish. Also went all the way to the banana dyke's
fished 14 to 32ft water at light house, Nothing. Heavy fog set in. Gave up
around eleven thirty am. what a day,what a day.
Aug 31 - Bob Clark Fished Friday
afternoon with Sue Zatek. Lake Erie, 21 FOW, straight out from Swan
Creek. Lake like glass, no weeds. Pulled bouncers with inline
boards 23 to 25' back. Got 4 from 3:30 to 5. Went back out Sat with
Sue and John Lewandowski, same routine. Tried 23 to 25 FOW and got 2
eves. Weeds were thick and the troll was a lot of work. Moved
to 14-16 FOW in the afternoon and got 2 more. After the east wind
picked, thr weeds moved back in and shut us down.
Aug 30 - John Sparkman Fri
8-29 Buddy and I got 9 handlining from calf island up to Edison discharge
- spoons purple w/ white -black spots
Aug 27 - Dan Bryant Fished Canadian
side Amherstburg Channel in morning using #5 flatfish chartreuse &
gold, caught limit Aug 25th and 26th hand lining out in the lake a little
ways 13 to 16 ft water. Caught a lot of smallmouth & released, fished
about 6hrs both days.
Aug 25 - Dan Allen Sunday
a.m.-Fished the Amherstburg channel from the Bob-Lo dock on down to the
mouth of the river, 20-35 FOW. Drifting with crawler harnesses and
Erie Dearies. Caught 4 walleye and 2 nice small mouth bass. Lost a
lot of gear but had a nice day. Saw my buddy Bill who fished alongside of
us for 20-30 minutes and left empty handed. You left too soon,
Bill!!
Aug 23 - Sid VanHouten
Sat. 10am Started at the top of the Amherstburg channel. One nice
eye and a couple smallmouth. Tried a couple more spots down the
channel w/no luck. Many Canadians jigging and bottom bouncing,
nobody I talked to had any fish.
Aug 22 - Mike Barkley Hit the river
with Butch Chinchak for a little bit and picked up 3 nice walleye (lost 3
or 4) and two nice perch. Back trolled 3-way rigs with harnesses in
20 FOW between buoys 88 and 89
Aug 20 - Tom Lulko Fished
Amherstburg channel this morning, got 2 'eyes, both on spoons, handling,
was a slow go, but a beautiful morning, light wind, oh, by the way, my
brother-in-law, Todd caught a catfish & a smallie. Think I'll leave
him home, next time :)
Aug 17 - David Roussey August
6th. A little north of here.. in WaWa Canada approx. 137 miles northwest
of Sault Ste Marie Canada. Caught in the evening on the Michipicoten River
(connecting the Whitefish and Manitowik Lakes) Our son Chris caught a
28.5" and 9 lbs on a hook and leech with a split shot 14"ahead.
This Walleye tied the record at the lodge for largest Walleye caught
during the entire summer. His older brother Mike brought a 26"
Walleye to the boat only to lose it through a hole in the net!
Aug 17 - Mike Barkley Greg Warsow,
Burt Parker, John Lewandowski and I went to Erieau and fished 60-65 FOW
off of the Windmill Farm and picked up 12 nice steelhead and 3
walleye. Downriggers at 25, 35, 45 and 55' #40 Jets 150
back. Most were caught on riggers. Anything with orange worked
(spoons) Lost quite a few of the acrobats. It was beautiful
weather and a great day on the water with good friends! Can't ask
for much better. If you haven't tried Erieau, you should.
Great Fishery
Aug 17 - Dan Allen Drifted in the
Amherstburg channel 150' off the old Bob-Lo dock in 12 FOW using bottom
bouncers and Erie Drearies. Caught 4 walleye, boated 3 plus two of
the biggest perch I've ever seen, smallmouth, sheepshead, gobies and a
nice catfish. Nice Day!
Aug 15 - Ken StDenis 5 real nice
walleye.....between the 2nd and 3rd lighthouses going out into Lake Erie
from Amherstburg. 30 fow drifting worm harnesses
Aug 10 - Sid VanHouten Three
at marker 61 Amherstburg pulling wire. Orig silver rap #7.
Aug 8 - Chuck Jones We fished
Friday by "E" buoy in 18-22 FOW. We ran crawler harnesses
40 & 60' back. 40' worked best so we went to 40' on both
sides. We caught 7 great fish, then ran out of time. Cleaned 6
lbs of fillets!!
Aug 4 - Chuck Jones
We fished same place as Fri & Sat (see reports below). We caught
8 nice fish. We ran out of crawlers. Still trying to learn crawler
harnesses.
Aug 4 - Paul Jocks Fished Stoney
Point, 22-28 fow, pulling gold, chartreuse, purple, white and pink crawler
harnesses behind mini-disks, 60-80 ft back with in-line boards, 1.5 to 2.5
mph. Limited Friday, Saturday and Sunday afternoon. Had to
keep changing speed, color and depth while concentrating on areas that
held the fish. Tried spoons and cranks with no takers. Friday
caught more and played catch and release, keeping nothing under 18".
Great weekend on Lake Erie!
Aug 3 - Jim Stenger Fished
with two friends yesterday 7:30am to 11am out from Fermi 25-27 fow. Caught
3 man limit trolling 2oz. bottom bouncers with crawler harnesses 50'to 60'
feet back off boards. Hit all colors but chartreuse got the most action.
Aug 2 - Mike Barkley Was
invited by Phil and Marty Drum to join them and Jon Kincaed to fish the
Metro-West Steelheaders Erieau Steelhead tournament. We took 1st
place and Big Fish with 9 steelhead and 12 walleye. Ran spoons
(pretty much any color worked) off of big boards, 2 riggers with
sliders (30' down worked best). 2 rods had leads core. We fished
about 8 miles down the coast towards Wheatley off of the windmills.
most in about 49 FOW' although we got a few in up to 60' FOW Great
day, great people!!
Aug 2 - Chuck Jones We fished by
"E" buoy. Ran bouncers & caught 6 nice fish and lots of
other bass, sheeepers, etc. Ran crawler harnesses on Mini's.
They worked well, equal to bouncers.
Aug 2 - Rick Malechuk Have
been drifting for past week, fishing 7-9p, , usng electric motor along
weed edges-N& S of Grassy , single hook drift rig , with #3 chart.
blade, split shot ,#2 , sometimes 2 shots,2 ft abve the spinner,just let
it tick and bounce , got out 5 times , caught 5,2,4,0,4 eyes, some
nice small mouths and about 10 nice perch , over 10"
In same area last Friday got 5 eyes 11p-1a, got 5 on night stalkers, red
head-pearl white body and orange with black spots
Aug 1 - Greg Warsow - Jerry
Hinton, Tom Taylor and I set out Friday for Erieau. Tom trailered
his 23' WellCraft over there. This the first trip to Erieau for
Jerry and I and Tom's first trip in 20 years. We fished 6-7 miles
due south out of the harbor in 69-70 fow. 2.8 to 3.5 mph. Pulled
any spoon with orange, green and/or gold. Two downriggers 25 to 35
back & 35 to 45 down. Ran two Dipsey Divers 125 back on #3
setting. Two on jets 125 back. One leadcore of the big board.
Went 14 for 22 on Steelhead and two bonus walleye. What a
great day on the water. No Goby's, no sheepshead, & no White
perch or bass. Jerry "Miss'em" Hinton had a great day by
the smile on his face. I can't wait to go back.
