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During the southtowns tourney when many struggled and blamed it on cold temps, we did exceptionally well with limit catches out of Dunkirk. Our probe was the key to our success. It allowed us to see that the temp on the bottom in 65 ft was 50 to 52 degrees were as the surface temp was in the high 50's. We then slowed the boat down to 1.2 mph on the down speed and dragged bottom. conventional wisdom would tell you to fish in the top 20 ft this time of year, which we did and caught very few fish. On Erie when there is little to no thermocline setup or after the lake flips dragging bottom inside 70ft off structure is always a good bet. Like Jigstix said once water temps increase and a thermocline setups the fish Will congregate and feed suspended, but they have to eat when the water is cold also. It is also my opinion our local fish non migratory are much more bottom oriented. I also believe that the temps were Jigstix has a better hookup rates is due partially to migratory fish from the west. Either way knowing the temp and down speed is highly beneficial for Erie eyes. For example if I had 65 degree surface temp and 47 degree down 30ft in 80ft, I would run 80 percent of my lines in the top 25 ft. Just my opion can't wait till the wind stops blowing.

Fire tiger, clown color, black and purple, leopard and pink hologram are all good in 5 inch. I do like the watermelon and purple muffin bay rats also. They have caught us some nice eyes this year.

Not really, if you call the people from the Sunset bay shoot out they will point you in the right direction. Yes the weather hurt us we did a bunch of lakers and only one eye yesterday. Prior to last Sunday's east blow we had limit or close too catches the weeks prior in the day time to the west of the point. The tournament is called the big dawg tournament I believe. There was a TV show with Bill Hilts you might find online.

No they are not having it. There is another tourney going on sponsored by Rob Rays Restaurant. Its being held July 10th and 11th. It's an invitational but I think they might have room for more boats.

Tighter wobble on bay rats, more like a reef runner or old Dave ka boom lure. Bay rat has awesome color selection. I actually tried to buy rynowskys blanks and have them painted, but I was told no, which is understandable. Bay Rats are great lures, but Rynowskis have caught so many fish they are hard not to put out for me. 10 color and pinky always catches fish. Hologram pink is our favorite.

I run bay rats and rynowskys both catch fish and Bay Rats are by far better quality. The rynowskys always need to be tuned and the hooks and paint quality is poor. With that being said we will catch more fish on rynowskys then any other lure hands down. Bagley's still and always will work, great lure with great quality. In a short synopsis rynowskys quality is not as good as the others but they catch more fish. This is especially true at slower speeds. Just my opinion.

I had same exact issue with my 115 efi merc It was an electronic float, basically engine was starving for fuel.

I tried Saturday evining just an hr or two before storms came nothing. Last year I did good mid May to early June 20 to 40 feet short cores and sticks.

Jigstick I have the same exact fishing patterns. I have two diawa 47h reels that I leave spooled with thirty pound test big game for my rigger rods when I go to Ontario. Got sick of re spoiling for my annual late summer trip. For walleye fishing I used to use the same reels for my riggers and used a small barrel swivel and just attached a 12 ft flouro leader.

No but fishing it I believe it is more like the micro cores then regular brands. Although I haven't had much usage yet but I am pretty happy with it so far.

You should use them on erie as well if you fish any of the ports in the central to eastern basin. Wire divers work very well when the fish get below 50ft. Wire on the inside braid on the outside diver.

I see the lake daily. Came over center road between Dunkirk and silver creek yesterday afternoon and its all ice as far as I could see. It is going to be a while. It looked better several days ago. Ice is packed up tight from Dunkirk east with minimal open water.

I bought a used boat with a 788ci fish finder and the tempature sensors is reading improperly. It is running about 20 degrees lower then the surface tempature. It seems to be working tempature varried from 17 to 20 degrees, so its functions in some capacity. Called Humminbird and they said I need a new transducer. I asked if you could re-calibrate the unit was told no. Just want to double check. Any one have the same issue and if so did they by the seperate tempature sensor or replace the transducer all together. Thanks Again

For the first time this year you can see miles of open water in front of the cattaragus creek on Erie. From ice fishing erie this winter my opinion is that the ice pack was not nearly as thick this year and there was alot less shove ice. Last year there was shoves that went miles with ice jammed up twenty feet high in areas. Rain and high winds will put a hurting on it this week.

God I want to say nice fish but I have been screwed with so much today. If this is an April fools joke you guys are sick mothers.

I ordered two big Jon quad trees. I need to mount them and were they need to be mounted there is not an accessible area to get underneath to bolt them in to place. They have four places to mount them to the boat. I gues I could make a port to access the underside but I do not want to if I do not have too. If I pre drilled these and mounted them with stainless steel screws with lock tite, will this be enough. Just nervous, four inline boards in waves really pull hard and I plan to put rods in them while traveling. I do have some flush mount holders I could remove and may be get a wrench down on the underside. What do you guys think.

Wonderful news.

We start fishing mid may off Brocton Shoal and troll from 20 to 40 ft of water this year we do good on three colors with husky jerks. This is the same time of year they catch them at night on the reefs. We target these fish directly off these reefs deeper during the early morning and late afternoon. Early June and into early July we catch fish suspended in the top 40 ft, occasionally in the top 15ft sometimes over a 100 ft, just depends on water tempature and were the bait is. When we first started using segmented cores it was 3 colors, 5 colors and full cores. We still catch alot of fish on full cores directly off the back of the boat. Sometimes only letting 7 colors out, one on each side. If you are just starting out I would get two 3 colors and two ten colors. You can run the three colors off the inlines and if the fish are 25 ft down add two ounces off wieght after deploying the three cores with a snap wieght. We still do this, I run three inline boards per side, say three five colors on one side and three three color on the other if the fives are out producing the threes we simply add 2 ounces on the three colors therefore essentially running six baits at roughly 25 ft. If you get a fish on the outer board you just need to let him drift back a little before cranking in just taking your time.