Pequod1

Great news. Thanks

One heck of a shouting match at the sbh yesterday around noon. One guy launching at retrieval and a half dozen guys trying to get out. Just did a little bass fishing for a change. Not bad, not great. Could not find them on any of the shoals. They were still along the breakwalls.

Your right about that. Erie basin is nice for the weekends. The trade off is no cleaning station but - they do have a nice ice cream stand!

Believe me gentlemen, once you hit 60+ the 9,000 taste buds you now have start to atrophy and fish taste likes chicken! At the rate I am going, I won't even have to filet them any more. Just skewer the wlole fish on a stick and stick over an open fire.

I agree. Chartered for salmon/trout for over 20 yrs and got totally burnt out. Walleye fishing has revived me. Much more challenging for me and you can eat them!

We stayed out of the pack yesterday and hammered them again. Very close to a three man limit. 55' of water . Temp was around 60 deg. Looks like they will be around for a while.

How's the rehab going. Hope you get back out there soon.

Ditto that report. We could not get them in the pack in front of the harbor though. Moved a little west in the same depth and had about the same numbers of perch. Great day out there.

I would like to transplant all of them Yesterday, while getting bait at Sodus, I ran into a couple guys getting ready to go out. We started talking about Seneca and the one guy tells me he got a 3 lb perch! Yeah right, I thought he was full of it. So he showed me the pictures. Believe it. The beast was 16" and had a belly like a codfish. If it wasn't three, it was dam close. He also had a two pounder in another pict. next to it. You could easily see the difference.

LOL

Yes I did and they were good. Placed them side by side next to some walleye filets and my wife and son could not tell the difference. Your best bet at catching them would be the western end of shackleton shoal and towards the islands.

If you don't have room in your vehicle for an additional conduit carrier, you can simply find some old skis and attach them to the bottom of the eskimo. I used 1" pvc pipe cut about 2" long to use as a spacer between the sled and the skis. Use some flat washers, and don't forget to countersink the screw holes in the skis. Net result - only raises the sled 2" and does not require any more space in your vehicle. Works pretty good too. If all else fails, do what I do, con someone like Gator to drag it out for you

Should be a real good day for everyone Friday. Weather looks toasty.

I am missing Erie allready. The reports did put me on the perch this year but I always managed more fish away from the fleets and used the fish finder to locate them. It is a real trick to see them when they are hugging the bottom, but if you know your machine's quirks, you can figure it out. I have caught them in the summer and the fall now but I have not made a spring trip yet. Hope I get some help with that when March arrives. Also, the last trip out, a few guys picked up some steelhead off the breakwall heading out of the Cat. One guy told me ,he caught a few on a glow/blue cleo as I passed by.

I stayed in close yesterday (out of Silver Creek) when the humminbird began to light up at 44' slowed down and got into some real nice jumbos in 52' Water temp was 65.

Three man limit yesterday and released a lot. A little deeper 66'.

Combat perch fishing in Erie right now. Straight out of the Cat in 62'

Thanks. I will be looking for volunteers for a proscuitto blanket this week.