Great report....nice grade of fish...many boats in that area now...?

 

There will be now! lol

 

Fish was between 16-23in. Seen alot of boats 5-6 miles of east of Kelly's. We stayed west of the pack.

 

Thanks for the info...I will be on them early this week....and post back AH2

 

AH2 where the bait marks are heaviest, is where the trash is the worst. We fished between 3 different packs without ever getting near any ang got 47 all over 18" with 5 over 4#, biggest was 30". That's with 4 reefs 90-120' back, 4 Bandits 95' back and 6 Dipsys size 1 with ring, #1 30-45, #2 37- 55, #3 44- 75. Both size spoons and 1 stick bait. Colors were varied but mixed veggies type colors worked best. 8 on the boat and we ran 14 lines fished from 8:30 to 2:45. Was a family trip and we wanted a 6 hr or so outing.

If you are running any deep crank that far back careful tuning is a must.

 

Jim were you in the 40 water...? Many other boats...?

 

Jim- were you fishing up by Kelley’s? I’m on the island all week and plan to fish several times. Sounds like the fish continue to move to the east. Any action up by Gull & KI shoal??
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We were probably 3-5 miles ESE of Kelley's.

 

yea think ive only caught maybe 4 farm animals and maybe 12 white perch all year and ive been pulling harnesses

 

We caught probably 5 farm animals this weekend alone on spoons.

 

Thanks for all the reports, fella's. Hope to be out Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

 

Mike do you go by Boatnut on the radio...?

 

There are a bunch of nets east of Kelley’s. GPS numbers for the two we saw are 36-34 and 36-32.

 

There also was a small yellow buoy about 1/2 mile off the SE corner of Kelly's last Tuesday. May have been some type of science buoy. I was surprised to see it and could have easily hit it as I was not expecting a buoy in that area,.

 

I have yet to see any of these fishing nets. Are they easily seen and identified? What do they look like, bouy's?

 

It's been a while since I've been up an seen nets,but there usually marked pretty well. With flags attached to a bouy/float,but I could very easily see one getting caught up in one if things are hectic.....
I think this is what you'll encounter

You can find more info here http://watercraft.ohiodnr.gov/commercialfishingnet

 

Ah2 I'd be guessing on depth wasn't watching it that closely but we were in the vacinity of the 31 line N. There were 3 packs but many others scattered around as well.

 

Thanks for the update Jim

 

I came really close to the those buoys with the flags (2). they were East of Kelly's and I would swear they were using the islands as to mark towards shore. Is this common, whatever is closest? Another question is how high are those nets off the bottom?

 

We came close to them Saturday. Funny thing was we were having a little dry spell. Accidentally got close to them and 4 of the 8 rods went off. I know this is late, but we had 2 of the 0 dipseys set at 100 on a 0 behind the boat and those were hot all day. Tt40 at 58-85 didn't produce as well. Had 1 dozen worms. Caught 10 fish on harnesses. 0 on spoons. When we ran out went to spoons and it took a lot longer. Usually put 1 harness out and the spoons out produce it , so I just use spoons. Not the case Saturday. Also caught 1 fish on a little ripper behind a big dipsy #2 @73.

 

fish hogg where have you been

 

Saw a box of fish in my marina this morning from just west of middle isl...

 

Mike do you go by Boatnut on the radio...?

Yup

 

fish hogg where have you been

Dave,
We haven't been around as much this year. Jackies Dad is not well, so she has been down their a lot this year. New job is taking some getting use to. Also,I have been fighting a couple of health issues, nothing serious, just painful to be on my feet very long. Things are improving so hope to be back out in full stride this fall. So leave a few for me to catch! Be safe out there!

 

My son and I took two of his buddies out for their first time on Erie Sunday. They had a ball, obviously. We were in the same area, east of Kelley’s. It was a bumpy ride back in but well worth the effort and sore back! All spoons behind Dipsy. It took us about 3.5 hours to limit running four rods.

 

View attachment 316473 My son and I took two of his buddies out for their first time on Erie Sunday. They had a ball, obviously. We were in the same area, east of Kelley’s. It was a bumpy ride back in but well worth the effort and sore back! All spoons behind Dipsy. It took us about 3.5 hours to limit running four rods.

Nice catch!! We are going up tomorrow morning to fish that area. I was told about a mile NE of the dump is doing well. Were you that far east of Kelley's? Thanks!!!

 

We fished that area last week and did well ,good luck.

 

Did about the same thing two weeks ago.
Mile and a half off the airport NE troll got 4 man limits 2 days.
Be there tomorrow and will report back.