Brian

Sunday morning 5am to 9. Reef runners down 20 over 35fow. Steady pick, biggest was 22 inches.


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I’m heading to my hunting camp for a work party, walleye fish Thursday - Saturday launching out of Godfrey point. My boat is set up for trolling finger lakes, I was thinking of bringing a lead core rod and a dipsy diver, on the fence on taking riggers off.  Was planning to bottom bounce a worm harness and cast jigging raps but wanted some other options.  Any advice appreciated. 

I’m with reeleyze, can’t go wrong jigging. If your trolling go with reef runners, stingers, thunder sticks, or comparable deep divers. Boards definately up the catch for me.


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Brian, were the larvae big mayfly nymphs? Last year the big hatches were mid June and they shut down the walleye bite for almost a week. To much easy food available.

They were definately mayfly. I don’t expect a big hatch this early.I don’t think there is a lot of baitfish yet, at least I haven’t seen it.


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Trying to get an Oneida thread going. The past few weeks I have stayed close to home in Cleveland. Steady shallow bite with larger fish in the before dawn period. The main basin mud flats are holding plenty of smaller fish.This morning a steady pick of suspended fish( 20 down over 40 fow). Turned around and set the electric on auto over the same course at .3 with a bottom scratcher and 1/2 crawler on slow death rig and jigged a rap. One on the rap and constant action on 1/2 crawler. Live well full of larvae. Curious about what’s going on in gravel on west end.

 

 

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Calm water, 39.6 degrees except for the creeks to the east. Warmest was 40.8 and 5 small browns.

 

 

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Fished the north shore from an hour before light till 9:00 and caught plenty trolling Berkeley flickers and rapalas in 10-12 fow. Good luck.


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Every fall I switch over to large lures on Oneida. The past two years my best lure has been this giant Shad rap (ssr44).17 inch walleyes have no problem hitting it especially after dark. It’s just a bigger target. But what I notice is that most fish are mouth hook on the front treble. They are hitting it mid lure from the side. Is this to avoid the spiny dorsal on the larger perch? Anyone else running into this on oversized lures. You can clearly see where they are putting their teeth on this lure. Just looking for input.

 

 

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37 back is 10 ft., 60 back is 13 ft, 100 back is 15 down, 150 ft. Back is 17 down. From precision trolling app.


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For you guys who regularly fish Oneida.......... On Western Lake Erie, they throw weapon rigs with small crawler pieces during these hatches and catch fish. Ever try this on Oneida?
Lots of stuff out there on weapon rigs. 
https://www.outdoorhub.com/how-to/2011/06/20/weapon-rig-walleye-101/
https://lakeerieguide.com/lake-erie-charter-rates/lake-erie-walleye-charters/lake-erie-fishing-techniques/
https://bskustomlures.com/collections/crawler-harnesses/products/bs-walleye-weapon-style-rigs

Makes sense. I think I’ll tie some up tonight. The Lake Erie boys always seem to be one step ahead.


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Massive fly hatch on the lake, but doesn’t seem to have put the bite off much. This 25” fish was puking 6” perch up in the well.


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I think you are right. Took a closer look and I believe they are larvae. That’s one way to get big. Avoid lures.


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Ran the same program with decent results. The two largest fish had nothing but shrimp in their stomach


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I've never trolled on Onieda. I have jigged but would like to possibly troll.  What would be a good starting point as far as stickbait styles and colors?  You guys run leadcore, snap weights, jet divers?

Just my 2 cents and everyone has their own style, but I would invest in a set of inline planer boards. I prefer wide wobble baits like reef runner, bomber, cordell stingers, and bay rat xld.Well tuned and fish the marks and I always run one high in the water column. My biggest fish almost always come on the highest line, even in deep water.even in 40 fow I will run one line in the 12-14 ft range. 30 years of meticulous notes on Oneida has also taught me that faster trolls produce bigger fish. So I would start there for what it,s worth. Like I said everyone fishes there own way.also might want to download the precision trolling app. The dive curves are very close.


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Same pattern today. Reef runners off the boards. Had to slow down to 1.5 to get takers.saw a lot of nets coming out on the Godfrey point drop off from the boys jigging and snapping sonars.


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North shore. 35 fow, light chop. Reef runner glowby and cordell stingers short off the boards(50 ft.) only 12 ft down , 1.8 to 2.0 , best was 23 inches.


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Northern maybe.?I,ve caught 2 already this year. We had a good day today pulling reef runners off the boards. 20 down over 30 fow. Goby pattern. Keep the reports coming, this site needs more Oneida reports.


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Nice going. I got up and saw 6 inches of snow on my deck and unhooked the boat and went to work. That big female is a beauty. Way to go!


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Started at 3 am. Fished till 11.Managed 1 off shallow stick bait. Water is only 45 degrees. No wind and pea soup fog cancelled plans of jigging the shoals. Once sun cameup I managed a limit of large lazy females off xld goby bay rats in 30 ft. Of water. Fish are acting like post spawn. Any reports would be appreciated to put together a pattern.

 

 

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Called the parks dept. for Mexico. A very helpful woman stated that the barriers are still up and they will be until they work on the docks.She said they are setting it up to launch one boat at a time and weather is holding them up. They are trying to have it operational by the weekend.


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Any word on Severne launch?


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Ray....such ignorance....please stop posting hatred.

Need a safe place, snowflake?


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So ALL launches and marinas are now closed?


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Got out at daybreak on Sunday. Putting out boards just out of the launch picked up a small brown in a 47 degree patch. Headed east and water kept getting colder and clearer. Never got another hit. Fished for two hours.


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