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  1. Gill-T

    Lake Erie Bite 2024

    Gill-T replied to Gill-T's topic in Walleye

    My brother went off the Catt last weekend and got their two man limits in under two hours each day. I imagine there will be a negative effect from the weather this week
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    September conditions will be way different than current. You will get nothing useful from reports this early as a lot will change during staging. The one theme this year class of fish has shown last year and this year is a preference for spoons first, meat second.
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    I was wondering if anyone can shed any light (confirm or deny) a rumor going around that some of the East end captains are looking to meet with the DEC to discuss the shrinking size of King salmon with consideration for a moratorium on stocking for two years?
  4. Gill-T

    Lake Erie Bite 2024

    Gill-T replied to Gill-T's topic in Walleye

    Aiden is derby dreaming 😴
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    Awesome…..but why isn’t Pete making the report? We all appreciate his soothing narrator voice.
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    Wow! A jigging slam?? Unreal.
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    Hit the water today at the bight early time of noon. For some reason my spidey senses said go brown fishing young man….I never go brown fishing in the summer. I don’t know why I decided to Brown fish but glad we did. If you have never seen a pre-spawn staging brown blitz, you are missing out on one of the wonders of nature. We set down in 42’ and it was game on. Rods going in, rods going off. Non-stop action for three hours. Browns were stacked from top to bottom. Fish were rolling and boiling on the surface. 76 degree water. And then it ended. Hooks still there but the blitz just ended. We slid off the drop and spent the next two hours on two and three year old kings. Great day. Spoon bite. Michigan Stinger stingray UV glow alewife and dreamweaver mag spoons. Rigger and slide diver bite.
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    Ah! Of course.
  9. Gill-T
    Why do I see palm trees?
  10. Gill-T
    I use Anchor Marine on Grand Island.
  11. Gill-T
    Great 👍
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    Battery always charged up. I don’t leave out riggers in rain but keep the ideas coming
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    Very few and small
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    These are 90% three year olds being caught IMO. They have developing gonads. With that being said, single digit percentage of kings making it to four years old off a huge class of fish means there should be historically big numbers of four year olds based on pure volume for next year
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    Single digit percentage of kings make it to 4 years.
  16. Gill-T
    I have been having reoccurring problems with my Cannons. Blown fuses and motherboards. I run a Big Jon on deep center rigger. It goes up and down. Never a problem. My two corner riggers are cannons. They last a year before boards need replacing. Big Jon and Cannons are wired exactly the same with an inline fuse to POS + post direct to a dedicated battery that only the riggers are hooked up to. Connections to primary battery and perko battery switch. Rigger wires are sized up two sizes so it should not be a resistance problem. See picture of the melted fuse below. It has been suggested I have a bad ground. Connections look perfect with sealed terminations. Getting ready to junk them. Any suggestions?
  17. Gill-T
    Lots of skinny kings and steelhead. The same is going on with Erie walleye. Too many mouths to feed to support a trophy fishery.
  18. Gill-T
    I was thinking the eddy near the Niagara red can in the fall would be fun.
  19. Gill-T
    Wow that looks like fun. What is the approach? Find marks and spot lock with electric trolling motor?
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    Grind bite today with those same 12-16 lb three year olds that dominate the catch. We did see a couple bait pods and basically made circles where the bait was all day. Meat rigs were the ticket. Two spoon fish and two plug fish, the rest were taken on meat. 124’-180’
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    Lake Erie Bite 2024

    Gill-T replied to Gill-T's topic in Walleye

    Boy was I wrong about the shootout weights. 6.7 lb average won.
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    First day back on Lake Ontario since the spring LOC (boat repairs). Hit the water at 8:45 and appeared to have missed the morning bite or fishing was slow as the lake was empty of boats after 1:00. We trolled north out to 420’ and back and never really saw anything to turn on. Zero bait, skinny fish and what appeared to be a SE down current (usually NE). Fish were scattered. Lots of steelhead everywhere we went. Most of the kings of any size were in the 135’-180’ range. Mag dipsys with meat back 240’-300’. Riggers 68’-82’ with spoons. One plug fish on slide diver. One junk line fish. I surmise the wind direction last night played a role but it seemed like the lake was settling when we quit at 4:30. Fish came in flurries. 4 or 5 fish in quick succession then nothing for an hour. Back at it in the morning
  23. Gill-T

    Lake Erie Bite 2024

    Gill-T replied to Gill-T's topic in Walleye

    Guesses on the average fish size for the winning box? Knowing there will be calm seas, some will go for the home run jig bite. My guess is a 7 lb average
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    You may want to check on the battery type. I have heard Lithium batteries don’t like cold temps below freezing
  25. Gill-T
    As per usual, great content Dan. You will need new drag washers before the season ends!
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