A friend at work has been killing the perch at the 85 causeway. Real nice quality too. No walleyes though.

 

Heading over there this afternoon and staying at the state park campground till Fri. Probably won't get out on the water till tomorrow. Hoping to find them myself this week. I usually fish the north end but plan on spending some time on the south end this week.

 

I'm at site 191, I'll let you know how this evening goes

 

I'm gunna try and get out tomorrow after work. I fished the causeway couple Tuesdays ago and caught 12 inch crappie

 

If Friday doesnt storm I'll be out there Friday trying as well. I'm off work that day

 

Extremely tough bite this past weekend for walleye. Heard some guys got them jigging the north end. There is a big bug hatch going on right now that has gotten the walleye pretty much shut down.

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InlandKid...you're not alone, I've been out 8 times in the past 3 weeks and cannot find them either. The Walleye Tournament guys seemed to be bunched up working the east side of the lake just south of Snodgrass this past weekend. Wasn't close enough to see what was caught, but might be worth a shot.

 

I saw that 17 and change lbs won the tournament, some big fish also caught, IAM going to guess trolling was the ticket, seems to be the theme there if you want consistency.

 

April is for walleye. May is for perch.

 

Fished south half yesterday from stalker island all the way to the causeway, only thing biting was perch and bluegills. Trolled from as shallow as 3ft to 20ft, flicker shad, raps, worm harnesses, no luck on walleye, didn't see anyone else net one either.

 

My buddy was getting Walters near linesville in 4ft of water using a floating jighead set up with just a piece of worm

 

Amish on the campsite across from us came in with 8 eyes, biggest 28 1/2, guessing their custom harnesses, saw them drift fishing.

 

 

Please don’t post coordinates on the open forum. It’s okay to do it in a PM tho.

 

You can get those worm harnesses at Gateway B&T in Andover. They use light mono and you will lose many of them on the stumps however. They are expensive too.
They are probably the same Amish that are there every May. Last year I checked out their rigged rods in their boats to see what they were using to catch all those walleye. Every rod was rigged with worm harnesses.
I use Eagle Claw 129N snelled #4 hooks with spinners and add a bullet weight above the swivel. You get 4 or 5 for $3 rather than one for $5 at Gateway. That way it doesn't sting too bad when you lose 4 or 5 a day on the stumps.

 

Those Amish guys are really good friends of mine. They take me fishing when I have the time to go with them. They make their own worm harnesses right there on the boat as they are fishing. They have a tackle box with them with all the parts that they buy from Netcraft. these guys get limits of walleyes of Pyma that are better than limits you would get off Erie.

 

I mix together lewzer and happysnag’s rig and got this tank today.

 

Anyone have a picture of the type of harness that amish use?

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I've seen it. Colorado blade hammered gold cant remember the # bu its the size of a half dollar 2 orange beads by the blade and one big green by the hooks. 2# 2 hooks no treble. Rig is the same size as a deerie

 

Very important half crawler but the front half

 

Interesting. What weight do they use with this? Not a bottom bouncer?

 

Spent weekend at campground without my boat. Lost a bucket of minnows and my favorite stinger to thieves! Managed to catch some nice redears and a few perch on crawlers. Everyone I talked to said fishing was slow

 

Just tie your own.
Mono leader I like 10-25 lb, box of beads, swivels, egg sinkers, clevis,
no 2 or 1/0 hooks, in amberdeen and steel. Colorado blades size 0-4 and various colors.
Heavier leader, steel hook and bigger blade if you have to troll. Can use amberdeen, but I like a heavier hook trolling.
Drifting, Lighter leader, amberdeen hook, then appropriate size blade and sinker for wind conditions. Can straighten amberdeen hooks out when you snag and rebend them
Then figure out best color for the day

 

We left this afternoon after spending the week there. Fishing was fair for us, we caught quite a few fish, wife caught more of the keepers than I did. We ended up with 4 legal walleye, a bunch of crappie and perch for the freezer. One nice largemouth and a bunch of cats I released. All on minnows and work harnesses with the exception of the largemouth that I caught casting to shore with a Texas rigged artificial worm.

 

Nice smallie hail.

In addition to the worm harness we also put stingers on our jigs when we aren't fishing weeds at Pymatuning.
The stingers account for the majority of the hook ups and all of the perch and gills. I tie my own and then just tie onto the hook.

 

Out yesterday, midday around 11am- 5p, Fished around the north stumps, lots of amish out there. Crawlers on harnesses, Erie Dearies. Nothing on the dearies. Wife brought in a fair sized channel cat and sister caught one nice crappie. All in all a good day for boating!

 

Would someone be so kind as to shine a little light on the weed fishing for walleyes at pymy...I have been researching it but am interested in what presentations and how and where it is presented in relation to the weeds themselves...a PM is ok, a may give pymy a try this weekend...if anyone has any tips it would be much appreciated.

 

Same as pike white rooster tails.