First trip to Huron, Ohio and all I can say is WoW

[Thomas O]

Arrived in Huron at 8:00 A.M. Sunday morning after a two hour drive. Grabbed a coffee and some snacks and went and talked to Ron Levitan who charters on Passin Time. He told me where to try and what to use and we launched my boat at about 8:30. Went out the Huron River headed east about 1 mile and set lines.Ripsticks in Cheap Sunglasses, White Perch,and Mooneye on one side off big boards 100ft back and Deep Reefrunners in the same colors except Red Hot Tiger seemed to go good also. We ran them 75ft back. To make a long story short we had our 18 walleyes before 1:00 P.M. Had two Fish Ohio's that were returned after photos were taken. I'm used to catching walleyes in Michigan waters all Summer but where we get quanity we don't get the quality like we had there. Then today went out this morning and fished the same area area with the same color baits and caught 6 walleyes with one that went 30 inches and weighed 11 pounds on a certified scale. It is in a taxidermists shop now as it was my buddies biggest walleye in over 20 years of fishing. The fishing today was tough compared to yesterday and we quit at 11:00A.M. Still, it was a day to remember. Saw Freebyrd'd boat at the marina and thats the roomiest Center Console I've ever seen. What a fishing machine. Looks like you have it set up perfectly for walleye fishing and it must be one comfortable ride. Sorry I didn't get a chance to meet you Steve, but I think you were having breakfaat with Ron this morning, and when we turned back in to shallower water like on Sun. thats when we got our 6 fish. Thanks for the info. Beautiful boat.
Well back to reality and back to fishing Michigan walleyes, where 6 keeper walleyes feed a family of two( Thought you'd like that freebyrd). Good luck and I hope the weather stays like these last few days for a few more weeks. Tom O

[Steve B]

Sounds like you had a great time. Thanks for the report.

[Billy Bob]

Sounds like you were on them!

I was fishing on 11-6-06 about 2 to 3 miles east of the Huron river in 17 to 18 FOW. The bite hit between 9:00 and 11:00 PM for me, after that they just shut off. All on HJ's blue & silver 150 ft. back. Six fish, smallest was 6.5 lbs.The big one was 12.75 lbs. on my scale. I think I lost as many at the boat as I caught! :(

All in all, a great night! :)

[FreeByrd]

AWESOME Trip you had Tom - wish I would have had the chance to meet you over the weekend. Headed out in about a half hour...
Steve

[Hawk Eye]

Steve, nice article about you in today's Toledo Blade by Steve Pollock from your weekend trip. Looks like the father/son duo had a great time aboard Freebyrd.

Tom and I quit around 3:00. Looks like the bite fired up around 26/26 on Sunday. Is that where you did so good before dark?

[ETT]

Heading out at 6:15???? Oh.... maybe you mean to Bob Evan's. That's pretty impressive in itself.
Good luck, and catch one of them "nice eaters" for me.

[K Gonefishin]

I fished the 25/26 area day and night, they never shut off, they rose up and started taking shallow baits, I was going to come in shallower but didn't have to, it was great out there, can't wait to get out again this week for night bite and this weekend for the Huron/Vermillion bite.