Haven't heard anything by mouth or online. Probably 2-3 weeks out yet given the colder temps. If we get a sustained warm up then it could be sooner but the forecast doesn't bode well for that.

 

Was wondering the same thing, I prefer it to the walleye run with much less people and faster action. Munch bigger pain to fillet though. I was looking at photos from last year, I was catching white bass this time last year pretty well so certainly behind last year.

 

Gonna be 81 next week. First weekend in May is gonna be a hell of a lot of fun.

 

According to anglers supplies in Fremont they were hitting today between the bridges Sandusky river. There are pics on his website and Facebook page of a cooler of big whites.

 

heres his # if ya want a daily report 419 332 6071

 

I caught two today fishing bluegrass and saw a few others caught they are far and few between but they are starting to show up. Would bet next week sometime would be good.

 

Sounds good! Looks like it won't be long for the Maumee. Those big females in the Sandusky showed up in a hurry. Those are absolute monsters!

 

The wife and I fished for an hour after work. Caught about 50 between the 2 of us. The average size of fish was incredible 90% of the fish were 13-15" inches. Biggest was close to 16. Mostly females I would imagine. Red and white twister tails did the trick. Had the river to ourselves for the most part until a duo decided to fish 3 inches to my left , and then had the audacity to ask to keep the last fish I caught. I chuckled at that and threw it back. Some people [emoji1]

 

The wife and I fished for an hour after work. Caught about 50 between the 2 of us. The average size of fish was incredible 90% of the fish were 13-15" inches. Biggest was close to 16. Mostly females I would imagine. Red and white twister tails did the trick. Had the river to ourselves for the most part until a duo decided to fish 3 inches to my left , and then had the audacity to ask to keep the last fish I caught. I chuckled at that and threw it back. Some people [emoji1] View attachment 261323 View attachment 261324 View attachment 261325

Tell them to go find their own fish!!!

 

Fished with a buddy last night, we got 137 in 3 hours. We were using 1/4 oz Vibrax spinners. We fished off of his property right across from Sidecut. Also caught 1 large mouth.

 

The timing of this rain is awful....grrr...river going up almost 4'.

 

I was hoping to get out Saturday, you think it will go up that much? It was super low Tuesday but how many inches of rain correlates to the river rising?

 

I got into them real thick Wednesday evening. What an impressive volume of white bass! Holy smokes! I kept 15 of them, all males around 15"-16". I caught over 50, along with a handful of largemouth, smallmouth, and a few catfish.

 

It would seem that the Sandusky basin didn't get nearly as much rain as did the Maumee basin. Maumee is up to 584..should crest soon but it's chocolate milk.

 

Edited... was going to share the fishing regs but I think up there there isn't a limit on white bass regardless of size.

 

Fremont is on fire.

 

It was tough today, only Managed one, snagged a second. Probably snagged at least 20 shad they are smellyyyyyy.

At least she was a fish ohio.

 

It was tough today, only Managed one, snagged a second. Probably snagged at least 20 shad they are smellyyyyyy. View attachment 261590
At least she was a fish ohio.
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Looks like a white perch

 

42 years ago when I was 10 years old, my mom took my brother and I fishing to the chagrin river and we knew very little about fishing . Well, we were catching all these silver fish and had no idea what they were . This group of guys beside us had about 60 of them on their stringer and I asked what kind of fish these were ."oh there some kind of bass " he said. Well they were not any kind of bass they were the beloved sheepshead that I later found out... ok, I am done with today's way back machine moment

 

Did y’all eat any of them?

 

You guys are further west but I saw a school on the Rocky River friday and Saturday morning. First riffle in the park.
One in front of me was 14 inches.
Rickerd