Archive for July 24th, 2009

8 before 8: Lake Erie Report, July 24th

Friday, July 24th, 2009

Just a quick report before I head out to start cleaning fish.  Head straight out of the state park this morning until hitting 23 foot of water, started heading east until hitting 26 fow and going back for another pass.  During that first pass we had 8 walleye in the box before 8 am.

Hot blades on the crawler harnesses were Happy Hooker Hedgehog, #5 Northland Baitfish Image Dace Pink and Antifreeze/Antifreeze #5 from DB Fishing.  The first two produced the most fish halfway into our first pass, so we switched over on the other rods, while keeping a couple of rods open to try new blades on the crawler harnesses,  the Dace Pink really shined for its first time out.

After that, say right about 8 am things went quiet and the fishing slowed way down.  Ended up putting three more fish in the box, one on the beginning of the 2 nd pass, and two more out in front of Stoney Point in 26 fow.

Enjoy the weekend, heading out to clean fish and watch the second game of the Tigers/WhiSox doubleheader.

Fish ID page from the MI DNR

Friday, July 24th, 2009

Not sure what you are catching?  The DNR has a webpage available with pics of most of the species that can be found in Michigan waters.

Fish picture chart

You can also click on each name by the fish to find out how to catch that specific species, here is an example:

Northern Pike