Not Washington but this may become a trend which disfavors people without money.
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Your success over deeper water seems to be the pattern I have experienced when there a lot of East winds as a Weather pattern. The wedging of the Niagara flow seems to push fish deeper over no- man’s land in the 300’-380’ zone. With the deeper water- more water for fish to spread out in- tougher to find. Good spots out there require GPS marks be placed for each fish contacted to develop the visual of the spot within the spot
Tough to tell if your fish had any fin clips but the fish we caught Saturday all had fin clips. Perhaps the issue is reduced natural reproduction or survivability to create larger fish in Seneca. There seems to be bait around to support
The inshore daytime bite is starting. Some females showing now. Some are resorbing their eggs (never unloaded). Post spawn skinnys that need to put the feed bag on in time for south towns. Have not done southtowns derby so may give it a try this year.
In for lunch at noon. Three more lakers but nothing over 6 lbs. Figured out the cowbells. They wanted a jointed stickbait behind the bells. Wouldn’t touch a spin glow.
Can’t let boat repairs keep me down. Great day of sunshine deserves some time spent fishing. Three species caught today off breakwall. KVD jerk bait was the only thing they wanted. All hits on the pause.
Because it is an absolute waste of time voting on unimportant dribble as changing the name of a body of water for political gains when there are REAL problems that our representatives should be working on.
Good fishing last night West of Dunkirk yielding a three man limit of walleye. Spawning males. Size was bigger this outing. Scatter rap minnows and ripplin redfins in natural colors. We had a crazy occurrence happen twice last night when we snagged bottom only to find when we freed the lure there was a walleye on the end. The only thing I can think happened is there was a fish following the bait and when it snagged, the fish thought it was a goby diving under the rocks or it was watching the stuck twitching bait and once the lure was freed it struck.
Haven’t been out (disclaimer) but with all the East winds, based on past experience, fish are often high in the water column making it easy to fish below the fish. I take a lot of fish this time of year in East winds on 4-8 colors of lead all day long.
Tough grind East wind bite tonight. Fished from Smoke’s creek to Hamburg shore. Maybe a fish an hour. All eater sized fish. Renosky’s and scatter rap minnows.