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Storage for those blades and baits.

Beads!

Blades in 100s of colors!

Buckets of all shapes and sizes.

Line ,flouro ,braid.

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Heating up!

With steelhead season all but gone, its time to move on to warm water species. Walleye is still going strong in the Western Basin. There are plenty of males left on the reef so jigging is a good bet. Blue/white and purple/char are still the best colors. Trollers are still doing best running Husky Jerks in Seyka Sour Apple Tiger ,Pink Clown and Clown are doing best. The fish seem to be favoring 25-35 back at 1.2-1.4 MPH. Reef Runners as well as harnesses are showing signs of life the last few trips. Ive also been surprised at the reports of Shoemakers Outdoors School already receiving good reviews from the guys who ran it.

Perch fishing has been good when the water is clean. 28-32 feet have been best from Lorain to Avon Point have had nice catches. Its been tuff with dirty water the last few days.

Crappie and pan fishing is firing up along the shoreline and in are marinas with plenty of action for a great day.

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Steelhead fishing really needs a shot of rain. Low water is making fish spooky and numbers are dropping. A good rain should be all we need to get another good run.
Perch fishing is still going good as long as water stays clean. 38-42 feet from Lorain to Avon Point all have produced limits the last few weeks.


We started the day off with a with a empty cooler and a handful of Jt Custom Tackle Husky Jerks and 3 hours later 12 awesome walleyes. We headed out of Catawba and headed for C can, set lines at 20-25 back at 1.2mph. Pink lemonade, sour apple tiger and purple tiger were best. Trolling for these fish should remain good the next few weeks as spawning finishes up and these fish try to put weight back on.

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Walleye Time!

Come see the release of a great new product Sunday at the shop! THE SCHOOL was created by Jonathan Shoemaker, a professional angler. THE SCHOOL was developed over several years and extensively tested on the Great Lakes. Jonathan fishes competitively on multiple national circuits, including the FLW Walleye Tour, Cabela's Masters Walleye Circuit, The Walmart FLW Series, and the FLW Walleye League.



Walleye fishing is still happening in the Western basin. Jiggers and trollers alike are taking limits. Hushy Jerk deeps about 30 back ,1.2mph , in pink lemonade, happy hooker ,clown are all working.Purple hair jigs and blue and white hair jigs are all still firing in 9-12 foot.
Good luck to all the LEWT teams this week-end.

Steelhead fishing is still going strong with Grand producing the best numbers of fresh run fish. Rain is well need on all other tributary's to get fresh runs in. Beads, sacs as well as many fly patterns all taking fish.

Pan fishing the harbors of Lake Erie is producing great Crappie and blue gill fishing. Waxes and jigs under a float has been best.

Perch fishing has been spotty pending water clarity. 32-42 feet has been best the last week. Lorain to Avon point all produced limits the last week.

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March Walleye Trolling?

Rivers are high and muddy with river temps rising to 67 degrees during the day. Time to put away the steelhead gear until conditions change.
With limited time off I excepted a offer to spend the day on the water fishing for walleye. Tom Norton , former MLB pitcher was to join us ,so even if fishing was tuff the stories would be good. We new boat traffic would be heavy at first light so a late start was fine with us. Armed with info from Capt Mark from MyBonnie Charters and Frank from Y-Knot Charters we headed out from Catawba at a little after nine. Two miles later we set out Deep Huskys and 700 Reef Runners 30-35 back at 1-1.3mph. We chose a variety of colors ,clown,silver blue ,blue hawaiian ,easter egg ,all of them seem to have went off at one point during the day. Lake Erie treated us to word class fishing with fish well over 10 pounds. We averaged a fish every 10 minutes and everything over 6 pounds. March trolling is hard to believe so I would recommend anybody with a boat and the resource's to get out there. I'm very thankful to have spent my day off with great company and some great fishing.

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