Lake Erie Walleye 2025

[Stillwater]

Well done. Nice writeup! You could be a writer for outdoor news. Great storytelling.

[Totally Hooked]

Buffalo - wash, rinse, repeat. Still smoking hot. We had our three man limit by 7:25 yesterday. 40 fow fishing the top 30 feet. Sticks and harnesses on cores and braid dipseys. 

[Pequod1]

Insane fishing again this morning. 24 in the boat plus a 10 lb catfish before 7:30.  I stlll have my deep program going. 40-43’ down over 48 works best for me. Harnesses and  spoons tipped with half a worm.  Dipseys, riggers and lead core all worked.

[tds840]

Gonna fish out of the Catt. tomorrow morning.  Any suggestions whether to head East or West once we get out there ?  Thanks. 

[Gill-T]

62-65’. Probably best to head West a little before you set down

[tds840]

Thanks, Gill-T. Much appreciated !!

[Pequod1]

It might be the beginning of the end in Buffalo.  Water temp moved up to 72 and a lot of sheepies moved in to the 40-50’ depths. We still managed our two man limit by  9:00 am.  Saw a lot of boats move out and fish the Canada line so maybe they moved out a bit.  I’ll try there tomorrow.  Riggers at 40’, lead out 6 color and wire dipseys  set at three and out 78. Harnesses seem to work best today.

[Stillwater]

Nice report. Helpful.

[SchultzFishingTeamOutdoors]

Catt creek 55 to 60 fow sticks,harnesses and worm burner's 

5 color 

riggers 30 to 40 down 

3oz snap weights 

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[walleye hunter 101]

East or west?

[SchultzFishingTeamOutdoors]

52 minutes ago, walleye hunter 101 said:

East or west?

We fished a touch east of the creek best bites we found were straight out front of the creek.

[walleye hunter 101]

Thank you 

[ifishy]

So I get the chance to go sat but unfortunately not the early pre dawn time I would like is the bite going late morning into afternoon as well last time I was done fishing by 10 bad enough I'll have launch traffic but got the old man excited to go again happy  to try the catt if the sbh fishing is slowing probably won't get another chance till fall

[Pursuit 2670]

2 hours ago, ifishy said:

So I get the chance to go sat but unfortunately not the early pre dawn time I would like is the bite going late morning into afternoon as well last time I was done fishing by 10 bad enough I'll have launch traffic but got the old man excited to go again happy  to try the catt if the sbh fishing is slowing probably won't get another chance till fall

They are biting all day long, time has not mattered at all for me.

[crisco]

Exactly what Fishmaster said, time of day doesn't matter, go when you can !!

[ifishy]

Thats good to know thank you for the info looking forward to it dad is more excited than I've seen him in many years I'll report back but plan will be sticks and harnesses and  if we can get into them early switching to the light rods with jigs and bottom bouncers 

[crisco]

The Catt is a good choice. Good luck, hope your Dad lands a trophy!! 

[ifishy]

So we left the house with the catt in the GPS didn't even make it to rochester and we were antsy to get fishing so changed plan to fish sbh got there 20 mins after the rain minimal wait at the launch ran out to 35 fow a mile or so from harbor lots of marks even more boats set out sticks on short cores and drop weight harnesses on dipseys and riggers had a big sheep head and silver bass double before all the rod were In than it went quiet. Fished for 2 hours and got 2 eyes. Than finally hit a group and got a triple from there had several flurries like that until 12:30 or so than we were just to hot so not a limit but 13 in the box with 2 at 7lbs and 2 at 6 and a bunch of 3-4 pounders the big one was my personal best (not my dad's) and plenty of filets fish tacos for dinner tonight  best depths for us was 48-52 7 color took a few shots but harnesses were the best

[Gill-T]

How were the biting flies?  They were brutal off Sturgeon. We spent more time swimming than fishing 

[ifishy]

Only 1 or 2 thankfully but other bugs were coming out heavy as we were leaving the surface was coated in what I assume were mayflys could explained the more scattered bite with all that easy food water was warm top to bottom as well was 73 down 50 foot 

[crisco]

Glad you got your Dad out and put some fish in the boat !!

[Stillwater]

On the news the other day the weatherman showed a night time radar picture of the entire east end of Erie covered with what they thought had to be a massive bug hatch. Your observation would support that. It happens every year on Oneida Lake and the bite gets tough with all that food in the water.

[Pete Collin]

On a Canadian brook trout trip, there was a hatch of Hexagenia mayflies at the lodge. Big, the size of butterflies. They came out at dusk. We would catch walleye on dry flies with our fly rods. A unique fishing experience!

[regulator]

Finally made it out to Barcelona for our annual trip. Arrived Thursday and fished from 11:00 AM until 3 PM. Two boats, 6 anglers and 18 fish between us before we had to go set up camp. Friday boat 1 with 4 fishermen, boxed out. 2nd boat, 3 fisherman boxed out. 55' to 65' was best for us that day. Saturday only ran 1 boat, 4 fishermen, boxed out. 4, 5, 6, 7 color cores, down riggers parked at 40-50. Fish were more scattered and we took fish from 55 - 100 FOW. Mix of harnesses and worm burners all took fish. copper/watermelon, firetiger, greens, purples, pinks, polka dots, didn't matter. Stupid easy fishing and lots of fish around. Great trip and had pretty flat conditions until Saturday morning.

[Gill-T]

Reminder about sunset bay shootout this weekend. Consider your port of departure carefully