Lake Erie Fall Perch

[Slapshot]

Heading out for the last time this year on Saturday.  1st time going for perch this year, where is a good place to go/ start?  Out of the Catt or Sturgeon?  What depth?   Thanks

[overthelimit]

Pick a port, start around 50 and watch your graph. Could be fish from 45-80 fow.  

[lineman49]

  Anyone dipping/getting emeralds any where?

[mikey eyes]

Ferry is loaded


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[jimski2]

The Lake surface water temperature has dropped and fish are returning to the Eastern waters.


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[Pequod1]

It was sloooow at the Cat today. Looked from 50-68' with only a few small scattered schools.  We only kept about two dozen. I didn't see anyone hauling them  in either.  Boats did not even have seagulls around.  Most of the fish we caught were small males. 

[Canuknucklehead]

11 hours ago, jimski2 said:

The Lake surface water temperature has dropped and fish are returning to the Eastern waters.


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The surface temperature was 60 this morning, went up to 63 in the afternoon.

[Canuknucklehead]

2 hours ago, Pequod1 said:

It was sloooow at the Cat today. Looked from 50-68' with only a few small scattered schools.  We only kept about two dozen. I didn't see anyone hauling them  in either.  Boats did not even have seagulls around.  Most of the fish we caught were small males. 

You did better than I did, caught 7 jumbos and about a half dozen little ones off Pt Albino in 55 FOW.

[weave]

We did OK out of Catt yesterday. But we were not clobbering them by any stretch. We moved around quite a few times. Picked up some jumbos right after sun up, but they disappeared after about an hour, then it was a slow pick at small pods of roaming fish after that. We would catch one or two and then the pod moved on and we’d have to wait for the next pod to move through. We culled about as many as we kept. The fish definitely ran on the smaller side after that first hour.

We kept to inside of 60’.


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[mikey eyes]

We also one out of the Cattt yesterday. For the most part we couldn't get a consistent bite going except in 63fow off the single wind mill in Irving. We ended up with 65. Had to with hard and jig up at times for them


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[weave]

I noticed that as well. As the day wore on, you had to be active to get any fish interested. I was actively jigging my drop shot rig to get bites.


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[jimski2]

Limit catches from the Catt have been reported. The problem now is bait availability. We may have to convert our fishing to artificials. I hate having to associate with those “artificials only” people that are so delicate to keep their hands clean.


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[J. Sparrow]

The problem now is finding a flat lake to get out on.

[shinintimes]

3 hours ago, J. Sparrow said:

The problem now is finding a flat lake to get out on.

I have next week off if the lake ever lays down ill be out !!  

[Starcraft 75]

Went out of Catt this morning. Bite was great first light for a couple of hours in 53fow. Slowed as the morning got later. Ended up with 60 quit at 1230.

[mikey eyes]

Tried in front of Bluewater marina in the river Sunday only six keeper perch out of 60+ fish. Lots of guys Muskie fishing


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[J. Sparrow]

1 ft waves tomorrow...... anybody heading out? 

[mostlymuskies]

Safe Boat Harbor has been giving up some nice size perch!

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