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Weird. Lake Ontario buoys are rockin’. Erie buoys and webcam at Sunset says fishable??? Must be wind aloft over Erie. Windy as hell at my house all day. My buddy tried to cheat the wind and drove to the bass islands and got skunked. He said he was not marking anything either. That tells me the fish are probably here.

Walleye winds this weekend. Looks like I am working on the honey-do list and boat fix projects. The winds should start the first big trickle of Ohio fish to the region.

That matches with what I have been seeing. At night the bite is up high.

1700 views on this thread in one week and nobody has put up a fishing report. Good or bad fishing it helps everyone to post what is going on. We need fish taken out of the system as there are 100 million walleye in Erie. No reason for tradition secrecy.

For you night trollers, a nice little tip for your planer board mods, I placed DOT reflection tape on mine and with just wearing a little headlight the boards light up the night like an airport runway. No glow in the dark night sticks. No battery operated accessory add-ons. Cheap and easy. (I placed a sticky note over my name and number to keep groupies away 🤪).

Another good evening contour trolling 15’-23’ fow off a hard point. We managed one shy of a two man limit in the 7pm-11pm window. Interesting how every time out the age structure differs. Tonight all age classes represented. Took another big also (7.5 lbs). Some on bandits, some on scatter raps, one on meat spoon down 12’ on rigger but most came off a Livingston stickbait unassisted -back 70-80’ on outside boards.

Now you tell me lol. I placed an order to expand my Livingston arsenal last week. I swore I would not buy another lure the rest of the year.

I have not seen many boats fishing around Buffalo when I have driven by. Usually only a handful at the Hanover launch. I think everyone is fishing Dunkirk or Barcelona IMO.

Farm animals.

For viewing when the lake is too rough.

Anybody get offshore to see if any fish have moved in? Water temps ahead of schedule. Cottonwood fuzzies ahead of schedule! Walleye should be showing.

Did a little evening into night troll. Haven’t been walleye fishing at night for over a decade. More exploration of some points paid dividends again. Got some bigs. Lost two bigs due to netting FuBAR. Some giant sheep made it interesting. Yellow and white perch, and some smallmouth. Livingston Lures were proving again that they are worth the $14 they cost.

Agreed there is no unnatural selection going on in natal streams so including a policy/procedure to only strip from three and four year olds based on body size at Altmar makes sense. We probably should be tagging these 12-14 lb fish to see if we can figure out which stream they were born from. The Niagara is an X factor that we don’t know about.

Awesome. 👏

I would have taken it as a sign to run a yellow NBK.

I think the lake managers would want to know if this large group of 12-14 lb fish are 2 vs 3 yrs old. The few I have cut open have developing gonads so my guess is naturalized three year olds.

Probably 12-17lbers

The results don’t mean the lake is bait poor, just more mouths to feed. Lake Erie is in the same situation with walleye. It has become very difficult to catch a fish over 10 lbs because of the huge class of 5-7lbers. Nobody is complaining.

We are in June transition 3 weeks early. Only half the field got their 6 fish limits in the Wilson Harbor Invitational this weekend.

WHI winning team this weekend had a 9.8 lb average.

lol 😂