Edgewater nite bite is on

[CaptCook]

Edgewater nite bite is on 11lber caught

[Baby Blue]

Sweet.. .spread the word!
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[K Gonefishin]

No don't spread the word, it's not on and one fish doesn't mean it is on, don't send people on a wild goose chase driving from all over for 1 or 2 fish, believe me I am a Cleveland night time guy and I am friends with all of them and we know from first hand experience. Spotty would be a compliment to what's going on out there, it stink in our opinion. I haven't even gone in 3 nights becuase it's NOT ON.

[Baby Blue]

I was being sarcasitic! We've been out there too.
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[K Gonefishin]

Understood I didn't know you where being sarcastic in the past people have put crazy stuff on here.

[Baby Blue]

Yep... getting pretty crowded out there the last few years. We used to be one of only 2-3 boats that worked it. Of course that was way before the internet.
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[HogEater]

I live in Eastlake...need advice for night walleyes.Is the Chagrin River area as good as Edgewater??Open for any information.I got a new sexy night light for attracting baitfish and I am anxious to use it.I tried it last fall and it really pulls the minnows in by increasing the density of the zooplankton.I am talking about gathering HUNDREDS of minnows to your fish area in about 30 minutes.Quite incredible!!At least I no longer have to buy bait for perch.Also looking for anyone to join me.I have a 24 ft Thompson and welcome company.Contact me at tjp150@yahoo.com Thanks and have a great season ALL!!Tom...aka...Hogeater

[Tommy Franjesh]

I was out on Tuesday night and I personally don't think you need any more bait around you. As a matter of fact, I pulled in my lures to make sure they were working properly and the hooks were covered with minnows. By the way, I caught one 28.5" walleye after trolling for 5 hours. I was pleased to catch this fish but, was hoping for a better bite. There were two other boats at the ramp that each only had one fish.

I'm not sure why anyone would make a fictional post and then complain about the boat traffic. Doesn't make sense to me.

The bite could turn on at anytime....

Anyone have a report for the Vermillion area? I got frustrated with Cleveland last year and made the trip to Vermillion - we did really well but, the fish were smaller than the Cleveland fish.

Tom

[K Gonefishin]

Believe me you don't need to attract minnows go near any breakwall there billions out there right now. I know there is an area just west of the mouth of the Chagrin by all the rocks that hold walleye at night. I have never fished it but a charter captain told me he pounds them good over there at night when it's on.

It's been slow from 72-RR so I don't and can't offer any advice right now except get out there and try they will fire good one time or another just hope your there when they do. I will be out this weekend during the day, the marks are there.

[Baby Blue]

Capt. Cook made the initial post.
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[tmoney]

Kevin, I'm not trying to be sarcastic, but how do you tell a sheephead mark from a walleye mark on your sonar. I know there are quite a few sheephead around the inner and outer breakwalls this time of year and they love to feed on minnows.

[bluegill 1]

K gone fishin,
I agree with you. Some put up posts and reports that are not true. I've noticed those are posted by people who are not registered. I've noticed the same from those who like to "bash" anything and everything, again, not registered. Umm.......
David

[K Gonefishin]

T-Money, from what I can read on Lowrance units like your’s walleye are long slender marks that are usually angled up or in a complete or half hook, Sheephead if you mark the whole fish won't be as long but more thick and rounded out looking more like a upside down U versus a walleye mark that might stretch across your screen, the fish are more up and down versus long, but there really is no way to tell for sure

[wormharness]

O.M.G. I almost spit my coffee all over the place when I read that one! "edgewater night bite is on" hahahahaha now that my friends is funny. The only thing "on" at edgewater is a crowd of people not catching anything but hooks full of minnows.I just posted on another site about this very strange activity of lots and lots of people aimlessly casting into the night for hours when not 1 fish gets brought in.very very strange lol. I am not a regestered member but I had to comment on this one.I have been there most every night and believe me IT'S NOT ON AT ALL! very very slow to say the least for the amount of fishing pressure its getting. good luck all
Craig

[Capt Cook]

Update the fish actually swallowed and didnt bite Just the facts

[Nite Eye]

Kevin, since when we have to have your "permission" to
fish Cleveland?? And yes we are pulling fish! GEEZ!

[tmoney]

We took two last night off Cleveland outer breakwall, one was 28 inches the other was 30 inches, we also lost two others. We had to wait till about 9:00PM for the lightning to stop, then we just had fog and cold rain and east wind until about midnight when it was flat and no wind. The fish were taken with a brown and silver original rapala floating minnow and a shallow running husky jerk in the blue/green variety. I will post pictures later today. There was only one other boat out there. I love going when the weather kicks up a bit, it chases everyone else away. Here is a photo of both:
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[localyokel]

The bite is on!! Find the fish boys, find the fish.. If your not catchin... move. Girl friend and I went out last night and in three hours we were done. The weather was a little bit brutal, but well worth it. I love shad!

[K Gonefishin]

I'm done posting here, this stinks, we all know Lake Erie has tons of walleye all over, let's just go get them and tear em up!!. So long to this fishing report forum people take it way to literally and seriously, to bad so sad.

See ya on the water and at the ramp, but not on here anymore. For the people who know me and have my number and Email as always let's keep in touch it's a good thing.

Peace

Kevin

[Stanley]

If you find a good fishing spot the first thing you should do is spread the word to hundreds of your closest internet freinds.
Then later you can sit back and wonder why it's too crowded for you to fish it.

[Reel Lady]

Touche... you could not have said it any better. I have been reading these posts for awhile and it just amazes me how some people go out and are lucky enough to be at the right place at the right time and then run home, get on the computer and start telling the world where they went. I'm not saying that you shouldn't share a little info with a few of your close buddies, who would do the same for you (isn't that what cell phones are for) but why in the world would someone want to tell anyone and everyone where the fish are. Enjoy your find with a few friends and let the armchair fishermen figure it out for themselves. :banging:

[Tommy Franjesh]

This is a tough issue for this site. The purpose of the site is to share information with others. Virgil is the person that shared information with me about 4 yeas ago and got me hooked on the night fishing. To that point I had no idea how to night fish. I'm thankful to him for sharing. He is extremely knowledgeable and also runs night fishing charters. I have shared information with friends as well - not everyone I know.

Now I have a circle of friends that I can call instead of relying on this site for information. We talk on a daily basis and I usually can get a report good/bad by making a few calls.

The night fishing has definitly caught on in Cleveland and now it is tough to fish there due to the boat traffic. It takes the fun and productivity of it when you have 5 boats trying to fish a point the size of a football field.

This is quite a dilemma.

T

[K Gonefishin]

Just wanted to drop a non report on this topic with me being involved in the night bite for the past 5 years and have even come under fire from disgruntled walleye fisherman and what the real deal is and I think some of us really forgot the facts of this whole discussion and reasons as to why. First off Cleveland is a major metropolitan city on the walleye capital of the world and has noriety for being a great Central Basin Walleye hot spot and even more so at night. I recall and still have an article that was written publisher in the In-Fisherman some time ago (at least 5 years) when the editor actually wrote about the night time bite along the Cleveland shorelines and even had a picture of the piers at E 72nd street showing all the dead shad and why walleye are feeding at night in this area. So please do not act surprised if you see boats or folks on shore fishing for the elusive night eyes, no different than Huron or Vermillion or anywhere else across this great lake for that matter. Walleye biting at night along the shores of Lake Erie has long been something folks have been doing successfully for the past 15 or more years.

I am having trouble why Cleveland is suppose to be the big secret that there are fish biting here (if they are) and people are coming out to fish for them. The Plain Dealer’s outdoors editor Darcy Eagan reports every Friday on how the night bite is in the spring and fall. Would you call him and tell him not to write about fish being caught in Cleveland?, you would say that is ridiculous!!….well guess what no different here. Still surprised?…. Well given the fact that every walleye fisherman has fishing friends and if 5 boat fisherman tell 2 friends fish are biting via cell phone or email not even including people he/she took with them to fish any given night those 5 people would yield I would say approximately 15 more boats plus the original 5 and this is only if they tell 2 people with a few stragglers that heard also. You do the math to figure out why there might be 40 boats out there, personally I’m surprise there isn’t more like in the western basin.

So next time it’s a Friday or Saturday night and it’s 2 feet or less with a south wind don’t say so SURPRISED “god there are a lot of boats out here that are getting in my way” what did you expect the whole 10 miles of shoreline to yourself especially since Edgewater, 72nd, Inner City, Emerald Necklace and all the other marina’s and docks are FULL of walleye fisherman that all talk to each other when they go clean the boat or head out for a day of perchin or just call there buddy to see what’s going on.

I am writing this in hope that people will just look at the facts of the situation and realize it’s no ones fault that people are trying to fill cooler with tasty walleye in your neighborhood. For the ones that are real people and GET IT and are not petty humans upset with others or this awesome web site and what people say, just keep the facts in mind and we are all on the same team to go out fish with good friends, maybe have a beer and just watch the board go flying back and to talk about that one day where you filled your limit of 28 inch plus fish for years to come.

Sorry for the whole write up here but I feel I needed to air this out to people who are still “surprised” and or might be angry for one reason or another.

See ya on the water.

Kevin

[B Thomas]

well I guess you gotta go out and they'll turn on when they are good and ready SHHHH keep it quiet fishing is a big secret!

[richard nogin]

there seems to be a epidemic in this country of angry people and lake erie brings out the worst of them at the ramps .motoring through packs of boats. trolling into drifting boats not wanting to steer clear of others to get to the dock faster i fished the night bite once last year in cleveland caught one walleye some guys had a spred out 100 feet hugging the shoreline just wasnt my bag.but thats just me .good luck to all in 2006.

[wormharness]

I think it is so funny to watch 40-50 people a night show up to fish off the rocks at edgewater.The fish are so few and far between its almost like hitting the lottery to be casting from shore and catch one.Someone is having fun with this and causing commotion about nothing.I think I will do and experiment and make up big fish stories about some nonsense puddle and then wait to see how long it takes to cause a panic! lol seriously though,every inch of water is being cover by flailing husky jerks for hours on end and monday night exactly 4 fish were caught out of all those people throwing non stop from sundown on.Now I am not saying it won't happen it just isn't happening from shore right now.But from the 8 or 9 seasons I have been doing this it usually ends aroung mid may. But every year is different. Last year it didn't happen at all, but the year 2001 was awesome!So who knows? Don't worry about all the people, they will get sick of being tired for work for nothing and give up soon!
I do not wish to fill my fuel tank in my truck to the tune of $90 so I won't be back out there until next week.
Good luck all
Craig

[freyedknot]

it's no big secret . i worked on kelly's island back in the early 80's and the night bite was happening there back then. weather it a hot bite or where the ducks are in dec.everyone wants it kept quiet. so why bother getting online? to help some others out. ???so why did i send reellady a pm about the nightbite being on ?????????if it's too crowded i will just move on down the shore for ya.

[localyokel]

It's a big lake after all. Its a big lake after all. It's a big lake after all, it's a big big lake!!!