if u r not seeing shad then its too early......the water temp needs to cool another 5-10 degrees to about 50 deg mark & below will force the shad in to shore. by early-mid part of next week should do the trick off Cleve....

 

i havent seen even one yet. if it would help ill post back when i do. im at the lake all the time lately.

 

Toledo blade said its starting in luna pier.

 

Was at Huron Pier Monday night, about 6 other guys there all throwing HJ and Rat-l-traps, no walleye caught when I left about 9. Opinion was it's not cold enough yet.

 

Pounded Lorain off the east side of the rocks for a few hours. Minnows all over the rocks, reports of some late afternoon steel, but no heavy reports of 'eyes yet. Imagine it will be another week or 2. Water temps are just dropping below 60. Should start hoppin' soon.

 

3 Of us fished Huron Fri.- Sat. Just south of the three stranded ore boats,the water was full of shiners and shad.
Managed 1 Huge shad- 3" caught on a treble hook .25 inches behind a HJ 13
about 1.2 mph

" Fish Ohio " im thinkin..

any day now, nobody knows exactly when it will happen except for the guy who is out there the night they decide to come in.
If it could be predicted, I wouldnt have drove 600 miles last weekend to throw lures at the pretty ships. (its all CHACE)

 

Saturday nite 3 walleye off of E.72 casting H.J. Some other guys caught some too,nothing fast ore furious,fished very long for them.

 

caught on a treble hook .25 inches behind a HJ 13
about 1.2 mph

That's good!
LMAO

 

nobody knows exactly when it will happen except for the guy who is out there the night they decide to come in.

amen! i was out a couple times but havent caught any yet. ive got to get the hang of it a bit though.

 

Avon Lake by the power plant has seemed to produce about this time in the past...Was there not long ago tossing HJ and lost 1. Water is still a bit warm but with this cold weather this week it can only mean good things when it comes to the walleye!

 

i went out like a dummy last night...the water was coming up onto the deck with a north/west wind....so no luck with the walleyes last night

 

3 Of us fished Huron Fri.- Sat. Just south of the three stranded ore boats,the water was full of shiners and shad.
Managed 1 Huge shad- 3" caught on a treble hook .25 inches behind a HJ 13
about 1.2 mph

" Fish Ohio " im thinkin..

any day now, nobody knows exactly when it will happen except for the guy who is out there the night they decide to come in.
If it could be predicted, I wouldnt have drove 600 miles last weekend to throw lures at the pretty ships. (its all CHACE)

anybody enlighten me more on these three stranded ore boats??

 

i went out like a dummy last night.........

most of us have been there.....lol

 

anybody enlighten me more on these three stranded ore boats??

Mike,

I'm guessing those ore carriers couldn't get into port because of the severe south winds and accompanying sieche.

Speaking of stranded boats...my boat has been stranded in the garage for way too long!

Tim

 

i went out like a dummy last night...the water was coming up onto the deck with a north/west wind....so no luck with the walleyes last night

wow thats hardcore man. i could barely get to the lake yesterday morning without being blown around. it was really raging. the waters really murked up bad. steady strong wind from the NW. seems pretty nasty out there again today.

 

the shad are definitely in, i snagged two and you can feel them bumping your line. the gulls were feeding on them and you can see the shad jumping out of the water. that was real sudden, during the NW blow they must have come in.

 

I saw the seagulls right along the shore on the way to and from work. Should be good by this weekend when the lake clears up.

 

I'm working at a new construction home tomorrow in avon.its just west of rt. 83 and lake rd on lake rd.I'm going to stay after I get done for the day and try the bite through the evening.it looks good there.lots of pilings in the water.the small cement pier starts in about 5fow and ends in around 8.hope it turns out.heres a pic of the spot. hope its just a bit more calm tomorrow night.

 

Water just off Bratenahl's fairly calm, but still very milky tonight, hopefully saturday night it's good to go.

 

calm, shad, no walleye...maybe tomorrow,,,,might need a little chop

 

calm, shad, no walleye...maybe tomorrow,,,,might need a little chop

well, thats exactly how id sum it up.....the shad are def in. i'm thinking the next onshore wind will put some gators on the crete.

 

its definitely very close. i saw a decent amount of shad tonight but the water was still pretty dirty. the chop wasnt too bad but the wind made shore casting very difficult. you pretty much had to cast with the wind to get any distance at all.

the fish are there though. i caught my first steelhead ever tonight from shore on a rapala x-rap and 6lb line. should be prime fishin conditions any day now.

 

Took my 10yr old son with me to edgewater park, lots of shad being pushed up against the rocks, you could see then stranded by the thousands after each wave. Waves too high, some breaking over the rock pier, temp dropped about 20 degrees in an hour after sundown. No fish caught by any of the brave souls i could see. Headed home at around 8pm. To thaw.

 

i was TOLD that the power plant had stopped discharging yesterday and the shad were gone....so if there's no shad, there's probably no walleye....just my opinion....but if there's TOO many, you probably won't catch them either.

 

are you talking about the first energy plant over there just east of cleveland on lakeside?