Fishing Report by Capt. Walt Ermansons



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Fishing report for the week of July 18, 2010.

13 pounders ! What an awesome week we just had on "The Trophy" this past week ! Matt Nonnenmocher of Lancaster, PA. (pic # 1 ) and Dan Eiben of South Park, PA. (pic # 2 ) will most likely never ever meet or have anything else in common except for one thing... they both caught 32 inch Walleyes this past week aboard "The Trophy" that each weighed in at 13 pounds each ! In 24 years of full time chartering and running literally thousands of trips I don't remember ever capturing two monsters like that in the same week. In fact, there are a lot of years where we never even see a fish that big over the coarse of the entire year. Yet Matt caught his monster on Monday and Dan caught his on Saturday. All in the same week... just a few days apart. Can you even imagine ? 26 pounds of Walleyes in just two fish. Truly remarkable !

The Walleyes now seemingly are on a slow constant march north now and are slipping slightly east with each passing day. Best depths have been right around the 73 foot mark now with the Walleyes holding 40 to 50 foot down in the water column. We took good numbers of Walleyes if not limits of fish each day including the above mentioned monsters. The average fish this past week after weighing our total catch each day just for the fun of it has been right at an astonishing 6 plus pounds. Very remarkable when you figure the days that we took 30 Eyes' each and the total weight pushing 200 pounds each day ! Wow is all I can say...

In fact we did not run a single trip this past week where each day we did not capture at least one Walleye that went 10 pounds or more. Pic. # 3 is of 13 year old Sarah Radich with her huge Fish Ohio award citation Walleye that she landed on Wednesday that touched the 10 pound mark. She reeled that bruiser in all by herself and never complained about how far out it was or how hard it was to crank although I know it was really a struggle to bring that huge Walleye to within netting distance for me. Great job Sarah ! Mom and Dad and brother James all did a GREAT job landing their limits of Walleyes aboard "The Trophy" as well on Wednesday and I have to say that had to be one of the funnest trips that I've had this summer. Even though I think Sarah was hustling me in the card games that we played between bites! I think she was stacking the deck every time I went back to net a fish ! LOL !!!

And since I am throwing some names out this week that I rarely due on these reports, I want to give credit to pic # 4 to John Trigg of Bellaire OH. with his limit Of Walleyes caught aboard "The Trophy" on Thursday. You truly deserve the fine batch of fish that you caught this past week. John has been coming each year with me the entire 24 years that I have been doing this and remarkably takes 7 trips a year with me and has done so as long as I've been doing this. We sure have had some remarkable trips together and I sure do appreciate everything that you have done for me. I sure wish I could muster one of those 13 pounders on one of your trips ! Maybe this coming Friday when you will be back yet again for "Just another day on The Trophy" ! It sure is a lot more fun when everybody is catching fish ... LOL ! Especially BIG fish! We'll see what the new week brings...

Capt. Walt
* REMINDER There are no fishing licenses available at the marina this summer. You need to get them ahead of time ! Questions, CALL ME



Source: Capt. Walt Ermansons July 18, 2010 at 19:09:14


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