2020 Eastern lake Erie walleye report:

[Sbflomike]

Behind the break wall at the south gap, outside Safe Harbor? Trolling or jigging?

[Tightline356]

North gap, trolling bouncers with harnesses.

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[Bottom Bouncer]

Got out Sat am and only managed one fishing the windmills.  Is anybody getting daytime fish?

[mike m.]

We got a 3 man limit in about 36-34 fow between hamburg town park and 2nd windmill to the right.  Five color with sticks. Small dipseys out 65-85 on a 3. Ended with 3 extras on breakdown that we threw back. Gonna be a great year!

[Slapshot]

Got out for the first time yesterday behind the windmills, fished 32- 39 feet of water, manager to get 6 and 1 throwback.  We had to work for them.  All fish came on harnesses, nothing on sticks or spoons.

[Fishy7816]

When we run harnesses behind leadcore we will get lots of hits but no takers then we reel up and the worm is gone. Should we slow down or what can we do to increase hook ups??


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[J. Sparrow]

One option is to troll "S" patterns if traffic permits. That'll speed up your outside boards and slow the inside, raising and lowering baits....... Many times those changes will trigger strikes. 

[jimski2]

Worms are also taken by white perch, white bass, sheep head, and little walleyes.

[Fishy7816]

We went out of sbh out to 20-40 fow I front of smokes creek and bottom bounced at .7-1.3 faster seemed better watermelon copper and purple/blue was good caught a monster (9+) put em back for next week! Tightlines to all fishing derby


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[Sbflomike]

Thanks Fishy took your advice! One man limit in 4 hours including a 29"r

 

Edited June 9, 2020 by Sbflomike

[Fishy7816]

Thanks Fishy took your advice! One man limit in 4 hours including a 29"r
 

Glad I could help and that you got into em!


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[Bottom Bouncer]

Thanks for the posts.  We got out a little after 6pm and got 2 in the first ten minutes in 40 fow and then nothing for 2 hours.  I saw your posts and moved into 30 - 35 fow of smokes creek and got 5 in 45 minutes.  

[Sbflomike]

Slow today. Two right away in the morning then nada. Judging by the boats out at 7 and the few remaining closer too noon wondering if they went deeper. Spent a lot of time from 30-35'

[Fishy7816]

Slow day for us as well only managed one


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[Bottom Bouncer]

Got out for a few hours this evening.  Started behind the windmills in 35-37 fow.  Tons of fish on the screen, but didn't catch anything.  Moved out to 45-47 fow and got 6 in about two hours.  Unfortunately the sheephead were out a little deeper too, but if that's the price to catch walleyes we'll live with that.  

[Ric66]

Hi,

New to LEU and my first post. Fished out of Buffalo in the morning yesterday. Could only mge 2 walleye and some sheep heads. Best walleye came on 3 color core on side planner with #9 jointed rapala. Did catch a 13lb channel cat on a bottom bouncing worm harness that surprised the heck out of me. This is my first year fishing out on Erie. Usually fishing Ontario for salmon out of Rochester. I'll be watching these reports to try and learn how to consistently catch walleye.

One question I had- do you guys catch walleye all through the summer out of Buffalo or do you have to go south to find deeper water?

Thanks,

Bob

[Fishy7816]

Hi,
New to LEU and my first post. Fished out of Buffalo in the morning yesterday. Could only mge 2 walleye and some sheep heads. Best walleye came on 3 color core on side planner with #9 jointed rapala. Did catch a 13lb channel cat on a bottom bouncing worm harness that surprised the heck out of me. This is my first year fishing out on Erie. Usually fishing Ontario for salmon out of Rochester. I'll be watching these reports to try and learn how to consistently catch walleye.
One question I had- do you guys catch walleye all through the summer out of Buffalo or do you have to go south to find deeper water?
Thanks,
Bob

The fish are in an around buffalo up until late July when you have to move out to the line and troll towards sturgeon.


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[Ric66]

Thanks for the info.

[ws6rufus]

Sunday 6/21 6:30-Noon. Started in 55-60ft hooked a spunky 7lb steelhead and then got (2) nice 4-5lb fish early then bites stopped.  Moved into 35-45ft at about 9:00am and got (2) 20" fish then it was dead from 10am till noon. Never saw many fish on the screen other than lots of huge schools of Perch in the 60ft water.  All fish were on 3-5 leadcore. Nothing on downriggers or deeper than 5 colors. All fish on worm harnesses, nothing on stickbaits.

[J. Sparrow]

Very thorough report ws6rufus...….. thanks.

[jimski2]

The hot weather has warmed Lake Erie up earlier than usual. Deeper water show fish top and bottom now. The bottom schools are not all perch and could be smelt.


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[Fyshon]

Thanks jimski2, do you think the fishing will pick up soon.? I have family coming in for the 4th and I promised them fish... I know, I know I should know better by now...

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[jimski2]

If the surface temperature is above 70 degrees, start looking in 65 foot of water.

[Fyshon]

Thank you sir... I really appreciate it 👍

[mike m.]

We did a slow pick for 11 eyes near border in 55-65 fow. All sticks, 5 and 7 color ieadcore off inlines. Big dipseys on #2 out 80 to 90. Last week we had a ton of bait out there but caught fewer eyes . This week almost no bait but we caught more eyes.