August ! Wow is this summer slipping by quickly ! It seems that the better the fishing, the faster the days fly by. And this past week certainly was a a blur as we experienced some of the best Walleye fishing that I have seen in years. I had some friends this past week describe me as a Nomad as I fished a completely different area each day. We caught fabulous fish anywhere from in front of Conneaut to Geneva, as far out as the Canadian line and limits as close in as 60 some foot of water. It seemed to matter little where we went. There are a just a LOT of fish in the basin surrounding the Ashtabula area at the moment ! It's like every Walleye in the lake has migrated in the super warm water right now of Lake Erie to our slightly cooler and deeper and super bait rich region. On fire... It simply does not get any better then it is right now.
The lake conditions generally dictate which way I head out each morning and it sure is a good feeling knowing that anywhere within my 20 mile mile striking distance that there are huge numbers of Walleyes out there just waiting to be caught ! Thursday was a good example. After going down to the boat at 5am and being met with close to 30 mile an hour north winds, I knew that if we got out at all that I was going to have to crank it out and just one way troll it back to the harbor. After putting the boys on a 2 1/2 hour delay, the winds eased some and we decided to make a run for it. We headed out on a slightly N.W. heading and after a long grueling boat ride we set lines close to the border and were immediately in to the big fish. We never stopped catching as we trolled south. By 1:00 in the afternoon we were done with 30 plus HUGE Walleyes !
Then the same afternoon I had a afternoon/ evening trip and by then the lake although still choppy was very manageable. Knowing that I was fighting the clock we just ran striate out to just better then 60 foot of water and reversed the troll working our way north this time. Game on ! It was immediately happening and really was as fast as my charter, a family from Dallas TX that so desperately wanted to experience Erie while visiting in the area could handle. I don't know how many times we had 4 and 5 fish on at a time ! By a little after 6 we had yet another 30 beautiful Walleyes in the fish box for our efforts. 62 Walleyes for the day. Not bad considering we had a super late departure in the morning by my standards and a nice early quit on the 2nd run with all our tickets filled easily.
And all week it was a daily occurrence to have 4, 5 and as many as 6 Walleyes hooked up all at the same time ! Just like I said. Fabulous ! I see no reason why this coming week should not be as good as last week. I must admit I was a little concerned with the extremely full moon that we had that fishing would be slower the past few days but that certainly was not the case. Just a huge shear numbers of fish out there right now have overcome any finicky groups of Walleyes that might not be interested in feeding after the sun light gets higher. This more often then not is usually the case when coming off of a very moon lit night where the fish feed all night long and shut down by day. But not last week. It was a great week and hopefully another one is in the cards for this coming week. Stay tuned ...
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
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