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#41 ·
Tommy84 said:
That was me out there. As soon as you told me 42/11, I didn’t put the radio down and a dipsy was singing. We hit a1/2 mile area just n/w of you. Anything silver and black spots seemed to work. Finally got to put the new cannons to work and man did they put in the work. We had 11 fish to the boat and they all made it in the net. Unfortunately one of them went back in the drink from my butterfingers when getting it to the cooler. Luckily I didn’t bleed it yet. Thanks again for the info. I knew I had to be in the right spot cause as soon as I hit 65 foot the screen just lit up with bait balls. We did end up with some decent walleye out there too. They probably just couldn’t get to it faster than the steelhead. I was going around 3.1 to 3.4
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awesome job, Tommy84
 
#46 ·
Brother in law and I will be traveling to the East to fish Saturday/Sunday. First time venturing out to deep water. Looking to land our first bit of Chrome. Thinking Avon. Any advice appreciated. Also looking for a place to stay for a night. Thanks. Been following this thread closely. Wouldn’t be upset with a mess of quality eyes either.
 
#47 ·
Tommy84 said:
That was me out there. As soon as you told me 42/11, I didn’t put the radio down and a dipsy was singing. We hit a1/2 mile area just n/w of you. Anything silver and black spots seemed to work. Finally got to put the new cannons to work and man did they put in the work. We had 11 fish to the boat and they all made it in the net. Unfortunately one of them went back in the drink from my butterfingers when getting it to the cooler. Luckily I didn’t bleed it yet. Thanks again for the info. I knew I had to be in the right spot cause as soon as I hit 65 foot the screen just lit up with bait balls. We did end up with some decent walleye out there too. They probably just couldn’t get to it faster than the steelhead. I was going around 3.1 to 3.4 View attachment 473628 View attachment 473629
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Tommy84 said:
That was me out there. As soon as you told me 42/11, I didn’t put the radio down and a dipsy was singing. We hit a1/2 mile area just n/w of you. Anything silver and black spots seemed to work. Finally got to put the new cannons to work and man did they put in the work. We had 11 fish to the boat and they all made it in the net. Unfortunately one of them went back in the drink from my butterfingers when getting it to the cooler. Luckily I didn’t bleed it yet. Thanks again for the info. I knew I had to be in the right spot cause as soon as I hit 65 foot the screen just lit up with bait balls. We did end up with some decent walleye out there too. They probably just couldn’t get to it faster than the steelhead. I was going around 3.1 to 3.4 View attachment 473628 View attachment 473629
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What size spoons work best for the steelhead?
 
#53 ·
4 of us went out of Avon yesterday. Didn't have any ideas where to start, guess I should have called Erie Outfitters. Went straight north to some marks from last summer and set up. Which put us into 65 feet of water. We were running a board with a crawler harness a #3 dipsy (125 back) and a #1 dipsy (100 back) on each side of the boat. We had the larger Michigan stinger spoons on the dipsy's. Crawler harnesses caught a single keeper eye and then nothing so we switched them out for bandits and caught 2 throw backs. Caught fish on all the spoons we tried, but some worked better than others like uv wonder bread and a couple different orange spoons. We trolled from 2.5 to 3.2 mile an hour. As the day wore on we headed south west towards lorain and ended up in 53 foot of water. So we ended the day with 1 steelhead 20 keeper eyes 40 throw backs 12 sheepshead and 3 white bass. Hope this helps anyone going up there. We did notice a thermal cline at around 45 feet down.
 
#55 ·
The steelhead are further out. I was 17 miles from Lorain light. My guess is you weren’t quite far enough. They might have even went a bit more north with the temp going up
 
#57 ·
This is a great thread, been following and think if the wind holds out I'm gonna give it a shot saturday and sunday. Would really like a mixed bag of eyes and steel. Thanks for posting everyone . Bringing my daughters boyfriend , he doesn't get out with me much ,because hes my daughters boyfriend,lol.

This will be only my second trip to erie and my first trip was west end in April and was successful thanks to people posting and some PM's to get me heading in the right direction.

Good luck to all this weekend if your lucky enough to get out .

Any suggestions on place to stay in the avon area ? Seems a lot of places have been booked pretty good this summer.
 
#60 ·
Headed northeast out of wildwood yesterday. Lake was like glass! No bugs either! Went about 10 miles out hoping to chrome plate my cooler! (sorry I didn’t record coordinates) Went from 65-75 FOW trolling north about 2.7 mph. Punched two tickets of eyes - every color worked with pink panties seeming to have a slight edge. Targeted running lures at 35-40 feet. Lost one steely and think Tommy84 is right - need to go further north for more chrome hook ups.
 
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