Fishing Report by Capt. Walt Ermansons



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Fishing report for the week of June 28, 2009.

Heating up ! We got some real heat and sunshine this past week and finally things are firing up pretty good out here. We had 3 different trips this past week where we limited the 5 man crews out with 30 Walleyes and a few Steelhead Trout mixed in as well. The rest of the days we fished we were anywhere from a dozen to 19 Walleyes for the day. Still slow on those particular days but we are definitely seeing things turning the corner for good now hopefully. I'm not getting my hopes up too high yet though. We'll see how this coming week goes.

It's always something on Erie. This past week the fishing has improved but all of a sudden the water is loaded with this fuzzy, scummy crap in the water that is driving all of us crazy. If you don't check your lines every few minutes your lines get so loaded up with this crap that you can't hardly reel them back in. And then trying to pry all of that stuff off is a real pain in the butt only to put them back out and have it happen all over again. I've seen this happen before but never this bad. It's very frustrating. Hopefully this will be a short lived affair. It always has been in the past ...

Boat traffic has picked up dramatically now as well. Word has gotten out that the fishing has picked up some and all of sudden a all of the Johnny come latelys are flocking to the area. This past Saturday was especially bad with all of the idiots running around. Most of them have no common courtesy when it comes to another fishing boat that is trying to run a big spread and has his hands full to begin with. That is why I live for my weekday trips. I'll take Monday thru Thursday hands down for a fishing trip anytime. Oh well, once again I deal with everything that the lake and the business throws at me. As I mentioned last week. That is my job.

So in a couple of days we flip the calendar to July. I'll be happy to put this June on the stern and not look back. I still don't have a real great feeling for the rest of the summer as of yet as I have had in past few years but fishing should be adequate enough to where everyone has fun and catches more then enough fish for some great fish fry's. The trip itself and the adventure is really what it should all be about. The days of almost automatic limits and guaranteed success may not come around as frequently as they have over the last few years. Perhaps 2009 will be a bit of a reality check and Mother Nature is just reminding us that
" Hey, after all, it's just fishin ! "

Capt. Walt



Source: Capt. Walt Ermansons June 28, 2009 at 19:11:11


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