Lake Erie, NY Fishing Report

If you're thinking about a Lake Erie walleye trip in 2013, now is the time to start
talking to your fishing partners! Plus, by booking now, you get the pick of the dates
we have available AND we'll honor 2012 pricing!!

We anticipate a start date of roughly June 22, 2013 depending on how Mother
Nature treats us this winter, and we should go thru at least the first two weekends
in September.

Feel free to give us a call or shoot us an email and we'll be happy to answer
any questions you might have!

When weather permits, yellow perch can be found at depths from 65 to 75 feet. Steelhead are showing up in Lake Erie Tribs.

walleye bite is still good 75 to 85 feet of water west of the dunkirk harbor. fish are suspended around 65 feet. Yellow perch bite is on 65 feet of water.

steady walleye pick at 80 to 90 feet west of Dunkirk Harbor 65/70 foot riggers with spoons (DW and Contender) sticks on divers 175 back have been the best

Walleye bite is good West of Dunkirk 80 to 100 feet. Divers 160 to 190 back as well as downriggers are the best. Sticks and spoons are the best.

Walleye bite is good at depths of 85 to 105. Fish are low in the water column slide divers downriggers and lead core with are the best.

Walleye found in depths from 85 to 115 feet off Dunkirk Harbor depths from 35 to 60 feet down. 

Good walleye bite 70 to 80 feet East and West of Dunkirk Harbor. fish are holding at the 40 to 50 foot depth.

walleys are bitting 65 to 80 ft water. Fly diver and jet divers.

July 8th:

We landed 13 walleye and 4 nice lake trout, plus the usual mix of silver bass, sheep
and perch.

As was the case on Saturday, a very late bite today.   We had 4 fish in the
box at noon, boated 9 in the next two hours.

Big slide divers at 145 on 3, with a purple regular renosky was really good
for us.  Also took fish on a black/purple harness off the 40 jet, the 10 color
with a 3" chatterstick tipped with a worm, and the VQ Goby again.

It felt good to get it going again!

walleye bite in areas east and west of the dunkirk harbor 65 feet of water 40 feet down, stick baits are the best

Headed out today with Gerb, Marty and Matt.  Pretty slow bite.  Got a couple right off the bat, then worked pretty hard for the next one.  First one came on a 5 color/renosky setup, next two were 110 and 115 on the big slide diver on 3" black and silver chattersticks

Went out this evening with Gerb and Jack for perch.  Didn't get going until after 7, but
still put in about 20 nice ones!

- Water temp increasing.

- 60 ft deep.

- Fishing is getting better by the day.

Well, ran our first trip of the year today.    Reports from all that we talked to showed it to
be really slow today.   Not a huge surprise, as the lake temps are running about 59 on the
surface at Dunkirk, AND it's only June 10th!!

Nonetheless, we got 4 nice ones today, plus a few bonus perch, which seemed to be as
good as anyone today.   Also ran into our fair share of silver bass and sheepshead.

We fished 55-65 fow water on the east side of Van Buren Point.   Originally was
going to chute the trench, but when we slowed to start fishing we had a pretty
good screen.   Gerb suggested the 10 color, since the fish were deep, and it
went right away.   Also took 1 on a 61 rigger on a WD green melon, and two
on the 135 slide diver on a orange/copper turtle blade harness.   Ran 30 and
40 jets; and 5 color off the boards and they didn't go.

Beautiful June day on the lake....and they actually had the marine forecast
dead on today!!

Walleye are beginning to become active in depths around 50 feet stick baits seem to be the best. Smallmouth Bass are still active around structure.

Wow!  Just back from our annual pike trip to French River, Ontario.   Always great to
see our friends Chris, Kris from N.C., Mac from KY.  Our rookie this year was Marty, 
whom some of you may know from mating on the boat.   Also got to spend time with
my brother, Lukas.

Weather was super...it rained overnight 1 night, and it was warm enough to have
the winds open on the cottage the whole trip!  Bugs...none!   Fishing, awesome,
although I discovered that we didn't take that many pictures of fish!

We ended up boating 357 northerns in 3.5 days of fishing, plus about a dozen
bonus walleye, and another 20 or so bass.   Also had 2 perch, in successive
days, that hit right at the boat like a small pike.   Must have been confused!

We kept fish to eat almost every day, and released the balance.  Lukas has the
pike cleaning down pat, and Chris is our master fish cooker!

Worst parts of the trip are that you eat and drink too much, and the travel for the guys from
out of this area.

Overall, another great one!


Next up....  "Times Two" is going in the slip in Dunkirk this weekend, weather permitting!
We've got reports of some walleye being caught....time to get going!!

Walleye are begining to be active during daylight hours. 50 feet of water East of Dunkirk. Perch are spotty in the fortyu foot range. Smallmouth fishing is very hot around any structure. 

Yellow Perch are hot and cold near the red bouy at the Dunkirk harbor entrance, live minnows are the best bait. Night trolling for walleyes is improving around the shoals west of Dunkirk Harbor stick baits are the best. Small mouth action is hot any where in the harbor and shallow structure.

Last weekend was the first weekend of the walleye season. The walleye fishing usually heats up the first week of June. The smallmouth fishing has been great, been hearing stories that some guys have caught around 75 fish a day using tube jigs and twister tails.

The smallmouth bite has been great, around the shorelines around 20ft deep and have been using artifical tubes, jigheads, and worms. Duck harbor is really hot for bass as a whole. The perch are biting around 50 ft deep using live minnows.