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Great memories and photos with the kids. That double is priceless

Over 12 mph you will start to feel uncomfortable. Timing is everything. If you have calm seas to start, head SW for 5-7 miles, turn around and troll back with following building seas. Check weather.com and click on the hourly icon and you will get the timing of the wind by the hour.

There probably are some bass inside the harbor but you will not be tapping into the main schools of walleye unless you are out on the lake.

That look like a coho and is what most are catching out there. Important to be able to identify between the two similar looking fish because each has different size and creel limits. One good way is to look at the tail. If there are spots all over the tail- trout. If there are only spots on the upper, dorsal half of the tail- coho. Great job introducing a new young angler to the sport!

Reports from the weekend have been OUTSTANDING. Any worries about mayfly blues have been proven wrong. Limit catches from everyone from Pennsylvania to Buffalo. Fish from Ohio appear to be here from their long journey and have empty stomachs. There are certainly fish on the bottom to catch but the majority are being reported from 10’-30’ down suspended. You absolutely do not need to dirty your boat with worms as stickbaits are working just fine. Parking lots that were empty last weekend were full this weekend so plan accordingly. GO GET’EM and do your part to save a baitfish’s life.

Catching kings is a challenge this year. Still a coho bite. Had my first outing on Ontario this morning. Action was out around 300’

Word of big mayfly hatch happening. Stomachs and fishfinder screens full of them.

Adam are you taking the rear treble off and extend a stinger or tying the stinger off the rear treble?

Ha! Maybe. 🤔

We had probably 5-7 board pull backs yesterday that were hit and runs so yes we saw nipping behavior. No buried swallowed deep hook ups.

Heeeelllllllooooooo !! Anybody out there?? I am hearing guys are cycling through 150 fish in two days of fishing in Erie,PA for some tournament down there but you would never know it based on reports on this thread. Lots of fish everywhere so no reason not to post a report every once in a while.

Hot baits today

Reports are good out of Barcelona today. Fish in the 62’ range. Five colors of lead and worm burners. Dipsys and riggers. We didn’t have to drive that far- fished out of the Catt. Did some contour trolling with stickbaits. Never got deeper than 28’. Two limits obtained plus two huge perch that hit 6” stickbaits, a handful of smallmouth, a huge silver bass and about ten huge sheepshead. Nap 😴 time.

West winds have pushed warm water back into Barcelona. There should be a ton of fish after that blow the last few days. Get ‘em!!!

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Ha, nice fix. Not me. As soon as I finished fishing I drove to cabelas on way home and bought a new Fenwick Fish Eagle rod to hopefully last the next 40 years

I heard there were lots of boats out of Buffalo. It would be nice to hear some reports good or bad.

It kept catching even after breaking. I twisted the two ends to offset the guides, bend the end guide down a little and managed to reel in this 4 lb bass.

Well it finally happened. My trusty cabelas fisheagle baitcasting rod from high school met its match with this 6 lber. RIP Rod you have caught a crap ton of bass in 40 years

Nite bite still on. 15’ down over 25’