Delightful weather ! And great fishing too ! I've been in the water since March the 22nd of this year and I'm here to tell you that this past weeks weather was the nicest stretch of calm seas and just plain beautiful weather that we have had this entire crappy year. After loosing last Sunday to 5 to 7 footers, starting with Monday and right on thru it's been just an incredible stretch of awesome days. And the Walleye fishing has been simply spectacular as well. Limits have been almost automatic and it seemed like many days that we would have more time invested in travel time out and back then we had in in actual fishing time. How quick the long days that we all had put in back in June began to seem like a lifetime ago. I honestly did not think things would straiten up and get this good this season. I pretty much had wrote this whole year off as just a "bad year". Now that everybody is almost out of Walleye trips, Walleye fishing is as good as it gets. Fate is cruel.
I had an awful lot of fun with all of my groups this past week. It's getting to be that time of year where friendly kidding takes place almost daily between my self and my seemingly endless amount of Steelers fans on board, me being a lowly Browns fan. Everything seemed hilarious all week as we worked together as a team setting lines and scooping up net full's after net full's of fat plump central basin late summer Walleyes. The only down side to this weather being this awfully nice was that it brought out the heavy boat traffic again. I was wrong last week when I predicted that I didn't think the congestion out in the lake would not get as bad again as it was here a few weeks ago . We've all been going nuts lately trying to survive from getting run over by the literally hundreds upon hundreds of little boats that all of sudden have showed up trying to cash in on this late season Walleye rally that we've been blessed with. Well this week it was pretty much the same thing again if not worst although everybody seemed strangely much more courteous and respectful. I actually had boat after boat turn and give me way as we trolled along with as many as 4 and 5 fish on at a time. It was just great. Thank you to everyone that gave me the "break" !
Even my one Perch trip that I had scheduled for today, a full week ahead of when I actually get serious about Perching went about as well as it possibly could. After a bit of a slow start where we sat anchored for about an hour and a half with only about 8 Yellow Perch to show for it changed in a hurry. I pulled anchor and only moved a few hundred yards and no sooner was the anchor set that everybody on the boat was pulling doubles and many triples of fat jumbo Ashtabula Yellow Perch. About another hour and a half later we went from 8 Perch to a boat limit of 180 Perch for the 6 of us. Truly amazing ! Now I'm back to another full week or so of Walleye trips before I start running these Perch trips in earnest but I hope today was a pre cursor of the way things are going to go this fall. Perhaps this latter half of the season will go much better then the entire spring and early summer part of this year. One can only hope ...
We have only one day now available for this coming week for a short notice Walleye or Perch charter. It's your choice. We can do either. They are both on fire. The day available is this coming Tuesday already, Sept. the 8th. The weather looks to continue to be outstanding and I am pretty sure that the fishing will remain the same as well. As always I can be reached at any time 24/7 on my boat/ mobile # 216-387-2656 for a booking. We then have another little run at the Walleye charters for a week or so and finally do get serious with the Perch for the remainder of this fall. I'm sure my thoughts and eyes will wander out to the horizon as we sit there anchored and jerk Perch, wondering how the Walleye fishing would be if I were out there but reality and business dictates what I have to do and it is no different then it is each fall for me. The Walleye season up this way is about over. Too bad nobody ever told the Walleyes that ... LOL !
Capt. Walt
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