Hauled my boat and my kids down to London for our annual summer visit to my parents ... swimming in the pool, visiting relatives, going to the beach, cross border shopping and a bit of Lake Erie walleye fishing.
We fish out of Port Glasgow on Lake Erie looking for gold. I didn’t spend a lot of time fishing, went out 3 times for about 3 to 4 hours trolling each time.
Saturday, August 4th, lines in the water around 7am started trolling in 62 fow. Marked a few fish, running 2 dipsys 150 back, 3 setting; 2 riggers at 41 and 46 fow; 10 colour and 8 colour core. Mainly ran spoons and a few body baits.
We caught a bunch of lambs and silver bass, and 1 lone 6 pound walleye.
We ended up with the epic of all time lead core tangles, basically ruining both my core lines, so we called it quits around 11 am.
Sunday we cancelled our plans to fish Lake Ontario for salmon due to weather, so I rigged up some new lead core on the rods, to replace the new lead core I had just put on last week.
Monday we went back to Glasgow for a few hours in the afternoon, me, my dad and a buddy and his son. We launched at 12:30 to nice calm water, started in 60 fow, 2 dipsys, 140 ft, 3 setting; 2 riggers down 39 and 46 feet, 10 colour core and flatline tail dancers/hot lips.
We fished until around 5pm, ended with 5 silver bass, lots of lambs, and 5 walleye (4 to 6 pounds). Also lost what we think was a bow on cheater line off rigger with orange spoon and lost a big eye on a dipsy at the boat.
Three eyes came of the dipsys running NASCAR spoons, 1 eye on 10 colour core with blue/silver NK28, 1 eye on rigger down 39 feet on watermelon.
Tuesday made a trip across the border to pick up a bit of fishing gear at Gander Mountain.
Wednesday morning back out with a couple guys.
We launched the boat just after 7am and headed straight out to 62 fow and set up, 2 riggers, 2 dipsys, 1 ten colour core and one flat line.
It didn't take long to find a flock of sheep, of all sizes, hitting every bait in the water.
Around 8:30 we hit our first eye on the dipsy, a nice little 2 pounder. In the next 15 minutes we land 3 more eyes around 6-7 pounds each.
We continued to work the 62-65 fow depths, weeding through silver bass, and more sheepshead to land 2 more walleye, both around 8 pounds.
We pulled our lines at 12 noon and headed home.
We ended the day with 6 eyes, around 12 silver bass and many sheep heads.
One walleye caught on the rigger down 41 feet on a yellow and black Rippling' Redfin.
The 5 other walleye were caught on dipsys, 140-150 feet of line out, number 3 setting, running mixed veggie and NASCAR spoons.
Nothing except sheephead on the 10 colour core.
Wednesday afternoon took the kids to Ipperwash beach on Lake Huron before heading home to Almonte on Thursday.
All in all not a bad few days trolling, plus scored a great deal on some more trolling gear ... 4 new planer board rods, 2 Okuma mooching rod/reel combos, a net salmon net and tackle box.
JimW
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