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Nice to get out with the family. This hot, humid, and calm weather will probably bring the biting flies out in masses!!!

Left the launch around 1230pm setup 190 to 200 fow. Riggers 85-90 meat on divers out 225-230 went 5 for 7 had to call it and pull rods at 2:00pm Lake O was getting angry. Despite the rough conditions had a great father's day with wife and my boys 🇺🇲

Went out with my brother and nephew on Father's Day and the following day. Father's Day was a little bumpy, but we fished from 6:45 to 11, and ended 3 for 3 with a dink salmon, a laker, and a nice 22 lb mature. We fished from 125-200 fow both days. We marked occasional fish down 80-120. Today it was just my brother and me, and we fished the same general water. Again, we marked good fish, but getting them to bite was difficult. Today we fished just 7:45 to 10:15. Maybe we spent too much time pointing north, because, when we got back in shallower, we found some excellent marks. The 100 rigger went off as I was pulling the shallower rigger for the day, and we caught another nice king ( 19 lbs). We also caught a coho today. Overall slow, but we landed the fish that did bite. We ran two riggers with spoons ( free sliders also) and two wire dipseys with flasher flies. No hits on the dipsies. Fleas are pretty bad, and the flies were biting today. I'm including a picture of the lure that took the two big kings. I don't know the name of it. It has a white back. We also took a small king and an average coho on a magnum uv wonderbread glow spoon down about 50. The wave forecast was accurate today, as it calmed down from just a good chop mid morning. It's always a pleasure to fish with my brother.

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Some of my best days on Erie have been "rod-in-hand" drifting bottom bouncers and crawler harnesses. Need enough wind to do it... usually 1-2 foot waves.

Strike 1....you're out!!!

Bullet Bob, bottom bouncing with crawler harness works really well in nearshore areas for eyes.once you locate fish vertical jigging will also work. The trollers on suspended fish tend to cover more ground with more rods hence more fish. 2 guys 2 rods bottom bouncing can fill a cooler pretty quick and is not a difficult spread to put together.The “good old days” are now on Lake Erie eyes.

Once you locate walleye your time is better spent trolling IMHO. Once lake temp hits about 65 alot of eyes start suspending in 40-65 fow. You'll see them on your graph 20-50 ft down. A 4,5 or 7 color leadcore with a stickbait is a winning combination. Troll at 2.0-2.4 and you'll get em. Good luck.

Afternoon trip out of fair haven today. Wind reports looked like it would be a pretty easy going ride but it decided to lie today. We left the dock around 2pm to be greeted by a nice chop. Set up lines around 100 fow going north and had a quick release that didn't stay connected. A NE wind turned the chop into some decent waves and trolling into them became more difficult to maintain heading and speed to decided to make a turn. On the turn took a nice 18lb king on some meat in about 140fow down 135ish. Water temp at the top was 65 and down near the bottom was still around 55 but was marking lots of bait and fish between 120-150fow. Around 6:30 the waves were still growing do we decided to call it after getting a small coho on a dipsey while it was still going out, but probably hit around 180 out on a 2 setting. All in all a good father's day.

Vince said it was 48" long!

Is jigging or bottom bait rigs/drifting totally out of the question?... I have seen hundreds of lake Erie Walleye reports, and every single one has been for and by trollers... Is it at all possible to bait fish or jig for them in Erie, or is there simply too much water and too few bottom areas that hold fish for jigging?... The vast majority of guys that fish for Lakers in big lakes troll as well, but sometimes guys jigging can stand toe to toe with trollers as far as numbers... Walleyes and Lakers have similar habits.. Some are near bottom, some are suspended on bait... Just wondering or is it pretty hopeless to jig/bait fish for Walleyes in Erie?....

It looked skinny ! Could have been 40 lbs

Could be 5 or 6 years as well.

https://www.facebook.com/share/CzmoTvKqvYHq8nbB/?mibextid=WC7FNe A 37.5 lb king was caught in Wilson today. A true 4 year old….

Quite a few over 30lb showing up in WI side very early in the season. Should be interesting to see later this summer.

Good going John and Happy Father's Day bud.