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Hi Headshaker, we're you using size 1 dipsys? What color are your dipsys? Thanks. We caught our first Dipsy eyes yesterday west of sturgeon pt. 75 fow. Used size 1 painted black. 210 back on 3 setting. Purple with green dot harness blades. 2 mph SOG. Rookie on dipsys so interested in learning more. Thanks. Great pic of that nice eye! Ours were just 16 inchers. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G870A using Lake Erie United Mobile App

Good points on snubber use Seabee75. Maybe I will not need them. What do you use for leader? Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G870A using Lake Erie United Mobile App

I ordered 8" clear ones to start and a friend gave me a couple old ones. They look faded yellow. Figure it is good to have them. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G870A using Lake Erie United Mobile App

Thanks to all for the great input on Dipsy size and color. I now have a place to start. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G870A using Lake Erie United Mobile App

Thanks, that was what I was wondering if I should get magnums for erie eyes or stay with #1's. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G870A using Lake Erie United Mobile App

What size are they? thanks.

Question: what size and color Dipsy Diver would you guys recommend that I buy. I am getting a couple trolling rods & rod holders for my boat and would like to try dipsy divers. (Up to this point I have simply been drifting with bottom bouncers / harnesses on spinning rods.) Thanks.

The walleye bite can shut down or turn on for many different reasons. I have seen a minor wind shift have an immediate negative impact. Maybe like someone taking a nice warm shower and then it goes cold all of a sudden... that can change a person's mood real fast until it warms up again. Same for fish probably, until they reaclimate they may not feel like eating. And then there is barometric pressure. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G870A using Lake Erie United Mobile App

The noaa open waters forecast calls for 15 to 25 knot NE wind and 3 to 7 footers with peaks at 9 ft. (9:42 pm forecast time). Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G870A using Lake Erie United Mobile App

Nice story and pictures RD9. They will always remember this day.

Fished from 3 to 9 pm yesterday. Started drifting in 72 feet west of SP. Got several nice perch. Moved back towards SP around 7 and found some marks. Caught 1 short eye, lost better one, lost rod & reel to good fish, got a few more perch and 4 sheeps. Not the results I was looking for but it was a nice evening on the water. A bit calm. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G870A using Lake Erie United Mobile App

I am heading out tomorrow afternoon from about 3 pm until dusk. Sure hoping it doesn't matter too much? Gotta go when the wind and wave window allows.

Hi Mostlymuskies, were you trolling with the bottom bouncers or drifting? Just wondering if it was a steady .8 mph or if you varied around that speed drifting (I am currently setup only for drifting). Nice job and thanks for the reports.

Very helpful. Thanks guys. Can't wait to experiment. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G870A using Lake Erie United Mobile App

Good tips on "fishing slow". My nephew uses them on a small lake up north and does very well. Have to give it a try. Peas... what does a "slow death" rig involve? Thanks.

They may not have been spinning at the ideal speed yesterday but I have had success with the same bouncer & harness in even less wind a few times in the past. I will give the rod a jigging pump every so often to change the speed, sometimes this can trigger a bite. It doesn't take very much to make them spin.

Our drift speed varied from about .4 to 1 mph SOG. Probably to slow to trigger them? Thanks. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G870A using Lake Erie United Mobile App

Wow, great info MyTurn. This might explain at least some of our lack of bites... plus we drove over a fresh road kill skunk on the Thruway and it may have came with us out on the water. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G870A using Lake Erie United Mobile App

Nice Bud... were you fishing near the bottom?

Nice jobs by MyTurn and Slapshot. Proof they were biting yesterday!!

Fished out of Sturgeon Point yesterday from 8 to 2 pm. Went west and drifted with harnesses and bouncers in water ranging from 60 t0 70 feet. Plenty of marks and some bait clouds on screen from time to time. Not a very productive day but it was good to be out for first time on Erie this season. A trolling boat went by and caught one a few hundred feet from us. Caught 1 drum and my buddy had a good one on and lost it. Line was cut clean above the bouncer so it might have got cut by the gill plate? Was a good fish. Bummer. Looking forward to next outing. Might have to take up trolling but we enjoy the rod in hand bite and fight. Regarding wind / wave forecast we were expecting 1 foot or less and for a while they were at least 3+ feet I would say. Not a problem but interesting to see the variation.

Anyone out of Sturgeon Point? Thinking of taking one last trip for eyes tomorrow. Thanks for any updates. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G870A using Lake Erie United Mobile App

Fished NW out of SP today in anywhere from 65 up to 73 fow. Started at 9 am and stopped around 4:30 pm. Drifted with worm harnesses until the wind died early afternoon. Tried trolling a bit without luck (not really equipped to do it right). Switched back to drifting when the wind returned and shifted from South to North. Ended up with 6 eyes, a number of sheepshead, and 5 decent perch. Plenty of marks. Overall a fun day.

Going to try and get out Wednesday morning. Any updates on the bite would be appreciated. Good luck.