hiwaydon
05-04-2005, 04:25 PM
Hello, it is Wednesday and we are finally having a good day at Lake Erie. The sun is shining, there is no wind today (so far) and it is starting to warm up. According to the forecast we are supposed to have several nice days now thru the weekend. I guess I haven’t been posting because I have been discouraged with the bad weather again this year in April. I think it has been worse than last year. I am hoping that we can start the season now. According to the forecast that might be the case. I know a lot of you have had a long winter and are looking forward to coming to the lake and getting in some good, quality time with friends and or family. Well we have been catching fish when we could get out. The worst part of the weather is that it has just been too cold for most of us. Some of the people that don’t mind the cold have been fishing. They have been catching walleyes between Kelleys Island and South Bass Island, up towards Middle Island, and all along the boarder past North Bass. Those fish are mostly bigger females, while they naturally have been catching the males down on the reef complex just north of Davis Besse Power Plant. They are still doing that but there are a lot more boats now and every time someone drives their boat over the shallow part of the reef the fish leave for a while. So some times when there are lot of boats it takes longer to get a limit, plus now we can keep 6 walleyes per person as of May 1st, which takes longer. That is a good problem though. The perch bite has been really good this year. Some people have been going for perch this spring while the walleye limit is at three. Then going for walleye after they raise the limit to six. A lot of people have been complaining that they are catching all of these big smallmouth bass while they are fishing in the shallows for walleye, and they can’t keep them. That is another good problem. Looks like you can hurry and get the trees trimmed, the grass mowed, and the flowers all planted so you can come to the lake and GO FISHING now. Good fishing & good luck, Don. (Compliments of hiwaybait.com)