Holy Sheephead Batman ! Wow, we went from all summer hardly catching any junk fish to like somebody flipped a switch starting on this past Wednesday. Just all of a sudden and it does not matter if you are in close or way out, the Sheephead have been on the attack! They just have fired up everywhere. And big ones too ! We have had as many as 5 or 6 of the huge bruisers on at the same time sadly enough. Tying up rods and wasting valuable time as my crew struggles to drag these spinning big pieces of crap in from some as far out as 500 feet when you factor in the distance of the wire line that we put out plus the additional distance out after we clip it to the planer board tow line and send it down the line. YIKES ! I sure am glad I am not the one that has to crank those puppies in ! LOL !!!
And through it all, the Walleye fishing off shore of Ashtabula harbor continues to be as good as it could possibly be. Just fabulous ! Barring heavy sea conditions which hamper us now and again, limits have been very common place aboard "The Trophy" this summer and most all the other boats out there. The fishing has been excellent anywhere from right around 65 foot and north clear to the Canadian line and anywhere from Geneva clear to the OH - PA line. Simply amazing the amount of Walleyes that are in this area right now !
On top of all of that, these fish are HUGE ! Just for the fun of it every now and again this whole summer we've been weighing the live weight of our catch and consistently keep coming up with about a 6 pound average for the fish that we are bringing in this season. Truly remarkable ! When I stop to think about what we have brought in this summer thus far aboard "The Trophy" it is just mind boggling. Not counting what we did this spring out at Port Clinton but just the Ashtabula fish, "The Trophy" has brought in to date 1,636 of these huge beauties. At a 6 pound average, that's nine thousand, eight hundred and sixteen pounds of Walleyes or 4 and a half TONS of fish ! That's a whole lot of fish sandwiches ! LOL !
So we are exactly at the half way mark for August meaning I only have about a months worth of Walleye trips left before I make the switch over to the Perch fishing mid September. This whole summer sure is passing us by quickly. I have not mentioned any open dates for a while because I have been blessed with a pretty good schedule this summer unlike a lot of the other charters that have done a lot of sitting around with the sluggish economy. I do have a couple of open dates however coming up the first of September that I would like to mention. These are Sept. the 1st and 2nd, a Wed. & Thur. for a Walleye trip. And we have a nice collection of open available dates to choose from for a Perch outing starting mid Sept. and running right up to November the first when the boat comes out of the water. The way this summer has gone, Sept. & Oct. will be here and gone before you know it !
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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